Leoti, Kansas.
Typical home $148,446 (+7.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$406 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,653 +7%
- $138,792$148,446 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,285 +19%
- $125,161$148,446 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.
- Leoti$779
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Leoti, KS rose 7.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Leoti, Wichita County, Kansas
Leoti is a city of 1,475 people in Wichita County. Unemployment in Wichita County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 6.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in farming, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Leoti is a small city on the western Kansas plains and the seat of Wichita County, with a population that makes it a place where neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here cost well below what is typical across much of the country, and a noticeable part of the population lives below the poverty line. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in the country as a whole, and winters run cold, with snow on the ground for part of the season and warm to hot summers.
Work. Many residents work in farming, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in government, so the local economy leans on the land and on public services. Among the largest workplaces in Leoti are the Wichita County Health Center, Leoti Schools and Cobalt Cattle Company, a beef cattle feedlot operation. Unemployment in the county is low and unchanged from a year earlier, the county added jobs over the past year, and the typical commute is short, with only a small share of people working from home.
Things to do. For a day out, Lake Scott State Park is a protected area a longer drive away. The El Quartelejo Ruins, an archaeological site, are also a longer drive away and are worth a visit for anyone interested in the region's early history.
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- 573households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 10 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wichita County had 803 jobs in 2025, 6.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 62°. About 24 inches of snow and 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Leoti weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Leoti
- Wichita County Health CenterHealth center115
- Leoti SchoolsSchool district67FTE
- Cobalt Cattle Company LLC - LeotiBeef cattle feedlots56
- Wichita County Health CenterCritical access hospital53FTE
- SEABOARD FOODS LP LOAD - 6206 LOADOUT LeotiHog and pig farming37
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 208 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
- HailVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Leoti’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 Wichita County.
Leoti home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Leoti$148,446
- 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.
- Leoti8
Zip codes with a Leoti address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Leoti — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.