Kinsley, Kansas.
Typical home $75,165 (+0.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$225 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $703 +1%
- $74,462$75,165 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $11,326 +18%
- $63,839$75,165 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.
- Kinsley$395
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Kinsley, KS rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kinsley, Edwards County, Kansas
Kinsley is a city of 1,456 people in Edwards County. Half its households earn more than $49,206 a year and half less, against $52,692 across Edwards County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Edwards County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 16.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kinsley is a small Kansas city where most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Incomes run a little below the county's, and a good number of residents live below the poverty line. The population skews somewhat older than the national picture. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers get hot, with moderate rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, in farming, forestry and mining, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Kinsley are Edwards County Hospital, Kinsley-Offerle Schools and Medicalodges Kinsley. Across Edwards County, unemployment is low and has barely moved from a year earlier, while the number of jobs grew over the past year. Most people commute a short way, and few work from home.
Things to do. A longer drive away is Fort Larned National Historic Site, a protected area that preserves a frontier fort. The Pawnee River, also a longer drive away, is a river to spend time beside. Camp on Pawnee Fork, another fort site a longer drive away, adds to the area's frontier history.
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- 585households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Edwards County had 1,079 jobs in 2025, 16.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 66°. About 15 inches of snow and 27 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kinsley 2E weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kinsley
- Edwards County HospitalCritical access hospital79FTE
- Kinsley-Offerle SchoolsSchool district55FTE
- Medicalodges KinsleySkilled nursing facilities45
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 45 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kinsley’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 Edwards County.
Kinsley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kinsley$75,165
- 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.
- Kinsley11
Zip codes with a Kinsley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kinsley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.