Milton, Kansas.
Typical home $248,712 (+2.3% in a year). Wichita, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$739 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,677 +2%
- $243,035$248,712 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,216 +32%
- $188,496$248,712 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.
- Milton$1,305
- 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 Milton, KS rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Milton, Sumner County, Kansas
Milton, in Sumner County, had 155 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Sumner County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sumner 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Milton is a very small community in Sumner County, Kansas, the kind of place where neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here are valued below what is typical across much of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and some snow, and summers are hot, with July the warmest and the year bringing a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing local people. Across Sumner County, some of the largest workplaces are Boyd Gaming, Wellington Schools and Walmart. The typical commute is a fairly long one, so many people travel some distance to get to work, and incomes across the county run lower than in much of the country.
Things to do. The Ninnescah River and its South Fork are a short drive away, good for time outdoors by the water. For a longer outing, the Sedgwick County Zoo and the Wichita Art Museum are a longer drive away in Wichita, as is Lake Afton, a reservoir.
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- 30 mintypical commute
What people in Sumner County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sumner County had 6,354 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 68°. About 7 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Norwich weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sumner County
- Boyd GamingCasino596
- Wellington SchoolsSchool district260FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters180
- Belle Plaine SchoolsSchool district99FTE
- Elkhorn Valley Packing WellingtonBeef produced in slaughtering plants86
- AAR Allen ServicesMaintenance and repair services, aircraft85
- Dillon StoresSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores79
- Conway Springs SchoolsSchool district72FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,296 people in all across the county; Milton 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
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 Milton’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 Sumner County and the Wichita, KS metro.
Milton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Milton$248,712
- 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 Milton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Milton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.