Kanopolis, Kansas.
Typical home $114,166 (+16.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$378 (+171%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,934 +16%
- $98,233$114,166 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,870 +50%
- $76,297$114,166 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.
- Kanopolis$599
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Kanopolis, KS rose 16.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kanopolis, Ellsworth County, Kansas
Kanopolis is a city of 443 people in Ellsworth County. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Ellsworth County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 5.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ellsworth County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kanopolis is a very small city in Ellsworth County, and almost everyone who lives there owns their home. Typical home values are modest, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most places. Winters are cold, with highs in the low part of the range of freezing weather in January, while July brings hot days; the town sees some snow each winter and a fair amount of rain over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, farming and government. Across Ellsworth County, the largest workplaces include Great Plains Manufacturing Inc - Ellsworth, Cashco and Ellsworth County Medical Center. Unemployment across the county is slightly higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs over the past year, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. Fort Harker, a historic fort, is in or beside town. A short drive away are Kanopolis State Park, a protected area, and Mushroom Rock State Park, another protected area known for its rock formations. Kanopolis Lake, a reservoir, is a longer drive away.
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- 278households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Ellsworth County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ellsworth County had 2,291 jobs in 2025, 5.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 67°. About 16 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ellsworth weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ellsworth County
- Great Plains Manufacturing Inc - EllsworthSeeders, farm-type, manufacturing122
- CashcoSafety valves, industrial-type, manufacturing118
- Ellsworth County Medical CenterCritical access hospital114FTE
- Ellsworth SchoolsSchool district86FTE
- Moly ManufacturingAngle irons, metal, manufacturing52
- Wilson OperatorSkilled nursing facilities47
- MaiCo IndustriesBoiler tubes, wrought, made from purchased iron44
- Carrico Implement Company, Inc. EllsworthTractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 564 people in all across the county; Kanopolis has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kanopolis’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Ellsworth County.
Kanopolis home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kanopolis$114,166
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Kanopolis address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kanopolis — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.