Linwood, Kansas.
Typical home $453,824 (+7.4% in a year). Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,452 (+156%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $31,274 +7%
- $422,550$453,824 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $122,145 +37%
- $331,679$453,824 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.
- Linwood$2,382
- 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 Linwood, KS rose 7.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Linwood, Leavenworth County, Kansas
Linwood is a city of 415 people in Leavenworth County. Half its households earn more than $65,994 a year and half less, against $89,218 across Leavenworth County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 people in Leavenworth County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Linwood is a very small city in Leavenworth County, Kansas, with a population that sits well below what most people picture when they think of a city. Household incomes here run below the county's, and typical home values are high relative to those incomes. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, and summers are warm and hot by July. Snow falls through the cold months, and rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, government, and professional and business services also employing many. Unemployment across Leavenworth County has risen a little over the past year, and the county has lost a small share of its jobs. Among the largest workplaces across the county are the Veterans Health Administration, Leavenworth Schools and Basehor-Linwood Schools. Commutes are long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The Wakarusa River is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Kansas River, to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and to Arrowhead Stadium, a large stadium that draws crowds on game days.
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- 5%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Leavenworth County 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 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 67°. About 17 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bonner Springs weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Leavenworth County
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs949
- Leavenworth SchoolsSchool district539FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters399
- Basehor-Linwood SchoolsSchool district383FTE
- Lansing SchoolsSchool district379FTE
- University of Saint MaryUniversity or college321
- Tonganoxie SchoolsSchool district304FTE
- Immediate Office of the Assistant Secretary for ManagementFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs290
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,135 people in all across the county; Linwood has none of its own. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Linwood’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.
Linwood home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Linwood$453,824
- 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.
- Linwood9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Linwood address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Linwood — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.