Mayetta, Kansas.
Typical home $306,880 (+4.5% in a year). Topeka, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,090 (+209%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,141 +4%
- $293,739$306,880 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $94,084 +44%
- $212,796$306,880 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.
- Mayetta$1,611
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Mayetta, KS rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mayetta, Jackson County, Kansas
Mayetta is a city of 348 people in Jackson County. Half its households earn more than $64,688 a year and half less, against $75,215 across Jackson County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Jackson County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jackson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mayetta is a very small city in Jackson County, Kansas, where most people know one another by sight. Household incomes run below the county's, and relatively few residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and homes tend to be valued well above what the local incomes alone might suggest. Winters are cold, with January the chilliest month and frequent freezing nights, while summers turn properly hot in July; rain and melted snow arrive in fairly generous amounts through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and government also employing many. Across Jackson County, some of the largest workplaces are Prairie Band Casino & Resort, Holton Schools and Royal Valley Schools. The typical commute is a moderate one, and a fair number of people work from home. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Perry Lake and Perry State Park are both a longer drive away and offer water and protected parkland. Those who like history can head to the Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park, also a longer drive away. The Topeka Zoo is another longer drive, and makes a good family outing.
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- 16%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What people in Jackson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 4,454 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Holton weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- Prairie Band Casino & Resort815
- JohnsonvilleAnimal slaughtering226
- Holton SchoolsSchool district204FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters196
- TechsEmergency medical transportation services, air or ground155
- Royal Valley SchoolsSchool district132FTE
- Holton Community HospitalCritical access hospital120FTE
- North Jackson SchoolsSchool district67FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,573 people in all across the county; Mayetta 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mayetta’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 Jackson County and the Topeka, KS metro.
Mayetta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mayetta$306,880
- 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.
- Mayetta6
Zip codes with a Mayetta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mayetta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.