Johnson, Kansas.
Typical home $153,357 (+0.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$416 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,403 +1%
- $151,953$153,357 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $21,770 +17%
- $131,587$153,357 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Johnson$805
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Johnson, KS rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Johnson, Stanton County, Kansas
Johnson is a city of 1,464 people in Stanton County. Half its households earn more than $71,105 a year and half less, against $71,700 across Stanton County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Stanton County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 24.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Johnson is a small city in Stanton County, in the plains of southwestern Kansas. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Household incomes are close to the county's, and a typical home costs well under what many American homeowners pay elsewhere.
Work. Across Stanton County, the largest workplaces are Stanton County Schools, Stanton County Hospital and Skyland Grain, LLC-Johnson, a grain merchant wholesaler. Very few people work from home, so most go out to a job. The county had far fewer jobs last year than the year before, though unemployment there is no higher than it was a year ago.
Things to do. Fort Aubrey, a fort, is the one nearby place on record, and it is a longer drive away. Winters in Johnson are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers are hot, so a trip is easiest in the milder seasons. Rain and melted snow add up to a modest amount through the year.
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- 610households
- 2%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 66°. About 22 inches of snow and 17 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Johnson weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Stanton County
- Stanton County SchoolsSchool district71FTE
- Stanton County HospitalCritical access hospital45FTE
- Skyland Grain, LLC-JohnsonGrain elevators merchant wholesalers grain30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 124 people in all across the county; Johnson has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- DroughtVery high
- LightningVery high
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Johnson’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Stanton County.
Johnson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Johnson$153,357
- Kansas$246,055
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Johnson6
Zip codes with a Johnson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Johnson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.