Kechi, Kansas.
Typical home $296,697 (+0.2% in a year). Wichita, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$823 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $449 +0%
- $296,248$296,697 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,458 +20%
- $246,239$296,697 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.
- Kechi$1,557
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Kechi, KS rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kechi, Sedgwick County, Kansas
Kechi is a city of 2,217 people in Sedgwick County. Half its households earn more than $113,125 a year and half less, against $69,365 across Sedgwick County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Sedgwick County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sedgwick 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kechi is a small city in Sedgwick County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run well above the county's. Very few residents live below the poverty line, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the chilliest month, summers turn hot by July, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail, and professional and business services also common. Across Sedgwick County, some of the largest workplaces are Spirit AeroSystems, Wichita Schools and Textron Aviation - Mid-Continent. The typical commute is fairly short, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away are the Wichita Art Museum, the Sedgwick County Zoo and Botanica, The Wichita Gardens, a botanical garden. For a family outing, Wild West World, an amusement park, is also a short drive from town.
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- 1,033households
- 61%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Sedgwick County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sedgwick County had 265,869 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 69°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wichita Jabara Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sedgwick County
- Spirit AeroSystemsAircraft assemblies, subassemblies, and parts manufacturing11,669
- Wichita SchoolsSchool district7,727FTE
- Textron Aviation - Mid-ContinentAircraft manufacturing5,249
- Wichita State UniversityUniversity or college3,108
- VIA Christi Hospital WichitaGeneral hospital2,496FTE
- Textron Aviation - East CampusAircraft manufacturing2,253
- Wesley Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,181FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,518
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 529 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 86,668 people in all across the county; Kechi has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kechi’s 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 Sedgwick County and the Wichita, KS metro.
Kechi home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kechi$296,697
- 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.
- Kechi5
Zip codes with a Kechi address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kechi — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.