Kismet, Kansas.
Typical home $150,926 (+4.6% in a year). Liberal, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$363 (+84%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,622 +5%
- $144,304$150,926 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $531 +0%
- $150,394$150,926 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.
- Kismet$792
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Kismet, KS rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kismet, Seward County, Kansas
Kismet is a city of 340 people in Seward County. Half its households earn more than $60,197 a year and half less, against $63,827 across Seward County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Seward County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Seward County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kismet is a very small city in Seward County, in the southwest corner of Kansas. Household incomes here run a little below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold, with snow most years, and summers turn quite hot, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents mostly work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Seward County, some of the largest workplaces are National Beef Packing Company, Liberal Schools and Southwest Medical Center. Getting to work is a short trip for most people, though the county has had slightly fewer jobs lately and unemployment has edged up from a year ago.
Things to do. Meade State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Beaver Dunes State Park is another. For history, the Dalton Gang Hideout and Museum and the Mid-America Air Museum are both a longer drive away. Each makes a good reason to head out for the day.
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- 12%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
What people in Seward County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Seward County had 11,033 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 47° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 65°. About 14 inches of snow and 21 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Liberal weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Seward County
- National Beef Packing CompanyBeef carcasses, half carcasses, primal and sub-primal cuts, produced in slaughtering plants3,340
- Liberal SchoolsSchool district841FTE
- Southwest Medical CenterGeneral hospital343FTE
- Seward County Community CollegeTwo-year college294
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters287
- Kismet-Plains SchoolsSchool district112FTE
- Dillon StoresSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores101
- Frontline Resource ManagementNursing care facilities63
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,813 people in all across the county; Kismet has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- DroughtVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold 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 Kismet’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 Seward County and the Liberal, KS metro.
Kismet home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kismet$150,926
- 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.
- Kismet6
Zip codes with a Kismet address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kismet — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.