Meade, Kansas.
Typical home $121,424 (+7.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$360 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,282 +7%
- $113,142$121,424 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,903 +21%
- $100,521$121,424 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.
- Meade$637
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Meade, KS rose 7.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Meade, Meade County, Kansas
Meade is a city of 1,505 people in Meade County. Half its households earn more than $75,321 a year and half less, against $71,852 across Meade County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Meade County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 5.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Meade County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Meade is a small city on the Kansas plains where most homes are lived in by their owners, and homes cost less than in much of the country. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than in many places. Winters are cold and summers hot, with some snow each year and moderate rain and melted snow through the seasons.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in farming, forestry and mining, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in shops. Across Meade County, Meade District Hospital, Meade Schools and JKL Construction are among the largest workplaces. Commutes are short, and unemployment in the county is low and has held steady over the past year, while the county has added jobs.
Things to do. The Dalton Gang Hideout and Museum is in or beside town, a museum for anyone curious about the area's past. Meade State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. For open prairie, Big Basin Prairie Preserve is a longer drive away.
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- 573households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Meade County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Meade County had 1,624 jobs in 2025, 5.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 65°. About 17 inches of snow and 23 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Meade weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Meade County
- JKL ConstructionConcrete pouring150
- Meade District HospitalCritical access hospital81FTE
- Meade SchoolsSchool district68FTE
- Lone Tree Retirement CenterNursing homes51
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 290 people in all across the county; Meade has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Meade’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 Meade County.
Meade home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Meade$121,424
- 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.
- Meade16
Zip codes with a Meade address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Meade — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.