Leon, Kansas.
Typical home $202,602 (+7.5% in a year). Wichita, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$628 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,132 +7%
- $188,471$202,602 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,483 +36%
- $149,119$202,602 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.
- Leon$1,063
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Leon, KS rose 7.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Leon, Butler County, Kansas
Leon is a city of 669 people in Butler County. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Butler County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Butler 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Leon is a small city in Butler County, Kansas, where nearly everyone knows their neighbors and most homes are lived in by their owners. Typical home values here are well below what many older homeowners will find in larger metro areas, and a four-year degree is less common among adults than across much of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July, with light snow and a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Across Butler County, some of the largest workplaces are Butler Community College, HF Sinclair's El Dorado Refining and Kansas Medical Center. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and a smaller group of residents work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, El Dorado State Park is a protected area and El Dorado Lake is a reservoir, and both are a longer drive away. The Kansas Aviation Museum is also a longer drive away and suits a rainy or cold day indoors. Joyland Amusement Park, likewise a longer drive away, is an option when grandchildren visit.
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- 272households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Butler County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Butler County had 19,973 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 69°. About 4 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the El Dorado weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Butler County
- Butler Community CollegeTwo-year college683
- Andover SchoolsSchool district612FTE
- HF Sinclair, El Dorado RefiningPetroleum refineries486
- Kansas Medical CenterGeneral hospital297FTE
- Circle SchoolsSchool district292FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters242
- Augusta SchoolsSchool district235FTE
- El Dorado SchoolsSchool district235FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 44 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,932 people in all across the county; Leon has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Leon’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 Butler County and the Wichita, KS metro.
Leon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Leon$202,602
- 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.
- Leon4
Zip codes with a Leon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Leon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.