Madison, Kansas.
Typical home $135,546 (+5.7% in a year). Emporia, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$407 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,285 +6%
- $128,261$135,546 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $33,084 +32%
- $102,462$135,546 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.
- Madison$711
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Madison, KS rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Madison, Greenwood County, Kansas
Madison is a city of 689 people in Greenwood County. Half its households earn more than $52,500 a year and half less, against $60,042 across Greenwood County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Greenwood County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Madison is a small city in Greenwood County, Kansas, a quiet place where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail, and transport and warehousing also well represented. Across Greenwood County, some of the largest workplaces are Eureka Schools, Greenwood County Hospital and Madison-Virgil Schools. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, few people work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Toronto Lake is a reservoir and Cross Timbers State Park is a protected area, both a longer drive away. The David Traylor Zoo of Emporia, also a longer drive away, makes an outing for visiting family. The National Teachers Hall of Fame is a museum in the same longer-drive range.
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- 412households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Greenwood County had 1,495 jobs in 2025, 4.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Emporia Municipal Airport weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Greenwood County
- Eureka SchoolsSchool district108FTE
- Greenwood County HospitalCritical access hospital90FTE
- Americare Senior LivingHealthcare50
- Madison-Virgil SchoolsSchool district48FTE
- ASC Engineered SolutionsGlobe valves, industrial-type, manufacturing35
- Hamilton SchoolsSchool district27FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 85 people in all across the county; Madison has one of its own. 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Madison’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 Greenwood County and the Emporia, KS metro.
Madison home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Madison$135,546
- 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.
- Madison7
Zip codes with a Madison address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Madison — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.