Maple Hill, Kansas.
Typical home $299,585 (+0.5% in a year). Topeka, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$926 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,417 +0%
- $298,168$299,585 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $72,167 +32%
- $227,418$299,585 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.
- Maple Hill$1,572
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Maple Hill, KS rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Maple Hill, Wabaunsee County, Kansas
Maple Hill is a city of 631 people in Wabaunsee County. Half its households earn more than $101,875 a year and half less, against $76,908 across Wabaunsee County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Wabaunsee County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Maple Hill is a small city in Wabaunsee County, in the rolling country of eastern Kansas. Nearly all of its homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run well above the county's. Winters are cold, with snow most years, and summers turn hot, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in transport, warehouses and utilities, manufacturing, and banks, insurance and property. Across Wabaunsee County, some of the largest workplaces are Hormel, Mission Valley Schools and Tower Metal Works. A typical commute is fairly long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Silver Lake is a lake a short drive away. Farther afield, Lake Wabaunsee is a reservoir, and the Topeka Zoo is a longer drive away. The Kansas Historical Society, a museum, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 240households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wabaunsee County had 1,399 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more 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 89° and lows near 66°. About 18 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Eskridge weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wabaunsee County
- HormelMeats, fresh or chilled, frozen, made from purchased carcasses162
- Mission Valley SchoolsSchool district91FTE
- Wabaunsee SchoolsSchool district71FTE
- Mission HealthMental health facilities, residential56
- Tower Metal WorksSheet metal work manufacturing25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 243 people in all across the county; Maple Hill has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Maple Hill’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 Wabaunsee County and the Topeka, KS metro.
Maple Hill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Maple Hill$299,585
- 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.
Zip codes with a Maple Hill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Maple Hill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.