Marquette, Kansas.
Typical home $149,449 (+2.8% in a year). McPherson, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$420 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,020 +3%
- $145,428$149,449 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,132 +32%
- $113,316$149,449 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.
- Marquette$784
- 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 Marquette, KS rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marquette, McPherson County, Kansas
Marquette is a city of 599 people in McPherson County. Unemployment in McPherson County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in McPherson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marquette is a very small city, with far fewer people than most towns in Kansas, and the pace that goes with that. Homes here are priced well below the county's household incomes would suggest, and few adults hold a four-year degree compared with most of the country. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers get hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in shops. Very few work from home. Across McPherson County, some of the largest workplaces are Viega - McPherson, which makes pipe fittings, CHS, a petroleum refinery, and McPherson Schools. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, and the number of jobs there has stayed about level.
Things to do. The Kansas Motorcycle Museum is in or beside town, and Sharps Creek is a short drive away for time by the water. For a longer outing, Kanopolis State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Kanopolis Lake, a reservoir, is also a longer drive away.
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- 262households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 3%work from home
What people in McPherson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McPherson County had 16,416 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 67°. About 12 inches of snow and 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kanopolis Lake weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in McPherson County
- Viega - McPhersonFabricated pipe and pipe fittings made from purchased pipe736
- CHSPetroleum refineries536
- McPherson SchoolsSchool district452FTE
- The Bradbury CoAssembly machines manufacturing370
- Johns ManvilleFiberglass insulation products manufacturing336
- Piping Technology CompanyPipeline, gas and oil, construction311
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters300
- Mcpherson HospitalGeneral hospital263FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 38 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,568 people in all across the county; Marquette has none 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Marquette’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 McPherson County and the McPherson, KS metro.
Marquette home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marquette$149,449
- 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.
- Marquette7
Zip codes with a Marquette address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marquette — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.