Lansing, Kansas.
Typical home $324,826 (+4.7% in a year). Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$943 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,542 +5%
- $310,284$324,826 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $70,373 +28%
- $254,453$324,826 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.
- Lansing$1,705
- 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 Lansing, KS rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lansing, Leavenworth County, Kansas
Lansing is a city of 11,239 people in Leavenworth County. Half its households earn more than $102,786 a year and half less, against $89,218 across Leavenworth County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Leavenworth County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then government.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lansing is a small city in Leavenworth County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the share of owners is high for the area. Household incomes run above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect. A good number of adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a modest one. Winters are cold, with January the chilliest month, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with government, shops and manufacturing also employing many. Within Lansing, the largest workplaces include Lansing Schools, Zephyr Products INC LCF, which coats metals and metal products for the trade, and True North Hotel Group. Unemployment across Leavenworth County is a little higher than a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. A short drive away are Sporting Park, a stadium, and Kansas Speedway, a race track. For a day out, the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art are both a longer drive away, and the Kansas River is also a longer drive off.
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- 3,556households
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Leavenworth County had 21,756 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Leavenworth 3SW weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lansing
- Lansing SchoolsSchool district379FTE
- Zephyr Products INC LCFPowder coating metals and metal products for the trade29
- True North Hotel GroupHotels & motels22
- AramarkFood service contractors21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 72 people in all. School districts come 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lansing’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 Leavenworth County and the Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
Lansing home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lansing$324,826
- Kansas$246,055
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Lansing listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Lansing34.92%
- United States25.56%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lansing18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lansing7
Zip codes with a Lansing address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lansing — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.