Maize, Kansas.
Typical home $308,618 (+0.5% in a year), asking rent $1,374 . Wichita, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$809 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,514 +0%
- $307,103$308,618 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,508 +19%
- $260,110$308,618 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.
- Maize$1,620
- 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 Maize, KS rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Maize, Sedgwick County, Kansas
Maize is a city of 5,735 people in Sedgwick County. Unemployment in Sedgwick County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sedgwick 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Maize is a small city on the northwest edge of the Wichita area, and it sits within easy reach of the larger city's roads and services. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year. Incomes in the county run somewhat higher than in many parts of the country, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops, and professional and business services. Metal and industrial manufacturing is part of the local picture, and Worthington Cylinders Maize and The Vollrath Company are among the largest workplaces in town. Getting to work usually takes a fairly short drive, and a noticeable number of people work from home. Across Sedgwick County, jobs grew slightly last year, while unemployment is a little higher than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Most outings are a short drive into Wichita. The Sedgwick County Zoo is the best known, and Botanica, The Wichita Gardens, is a botanical garden nearby. The Wichita Art Museum is also a short drive away, and the Kansas Aviation Museum takes a longer drive.
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- 2,778households
- 39%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What people in Sedgwick County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sedgwick County had 265,869 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wichita Wx weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Maize
- Worthington Cylinders MaizeMetal container manufacturing145
- Reiloy USAHandtools, motor vehicle mechanics', merchant wholesalers66
- The Vollrath Company LLC., MaizePots and pans, fabricated metal, manufacturing50
- Kyodo Yushi USAHydraulic fluids, petroleum, made from refined petroleum27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 288 people in all. 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 stormsVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Maize’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 Sedgwick County and the Wichita, KS metro.
Maize home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Maize$308,618
- 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 9 Maize listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Maize11.71%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Maize60
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Maize14
Zip codes with a Maize address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Maize — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.