Kingman, Kansas.
Typical home $145,240 (-1.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$418 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,929 -1%
- $147,169$145,240 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,056 +28%
- $113,184$145,240 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.
- Kingman$762
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Kingman, KS fell 1.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kingman, Kingman County, Kansas
Kingman is a city of 3,105 people in Kingman County. 56% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. Unemployment in Kingman County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 5.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kingman is a small city in south-central Kansas and the seat of Kingman County. Its residents are somewhat older than across the country as a whole, and fewer homes are rented than lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, summers are hot, and the town sees a modest amount of snow and a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and government also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Kingman are Great Lakes Polymer Technologies, which makes fibers and filaments, and the Kingman - Norwich Schools. Ninnescah Valley Health Systems, a critical access hospital, is another major employer. Most people have a short drive to work, and very few work from home.
Things to do. The nearest outdoor choices are a longer drive away, among them Cheney Reservoir and Cheney State Park, a protected area built around the water, and the Ninnescah River, which runs through this part of Kansas. Lake Afton is another reservoir a longer drive away. For a change of pace, the Hutchinson Zoo is also a longer drive away.
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- 1,474households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kingman County had 2,606 jobs in 2025, 5.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 68°. About 9 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kingman weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kingman
- Great Lakes Polymer TechnologiesAnidex fibers and filaments manufacturing129
- Kingman - Norwich SchoolsSchool district114FTE
- Wheatlands Health Care CenterSkilled nursing facilities114
- Ninnescah Valley Health SystemsCritical access hospital103FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 398 people in all. 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windVery 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 Kingman’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 Kingman County.
Kingman home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kingman$145,240
- 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.
- Kingman9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Kingman address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kingman — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.