Miltonvale, Kansas.
Typical home $98,788 (+3.8% in a year). Salina, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$294 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,587 +4%
- $95,201$98,788 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $21,392 +28%
- $77,397$98,788 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.
- Miltonvale$519
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Miltonvale, KS rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Miltonvale, Cloud County, Kansas
Miltonvale is a city of 440 people in Cloud County. Half its households earn more than $52,026 a year and half less, against $58,770 across Cloud County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Cloud County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cloud County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Miltonvale is a very small Kansas city, the kind of place where neighbors tend to know one another. Household incomes run below the county's, and homes here are modestly priced. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn properly hot.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and farming and related work. Across Cloud County, major workplaces include Cloud County Community College, Concordia Schools and Cloud County Health Center. Job numbers across the county slipped slightly last year, and the typical commute is a fair drive.
Things to do. Rock City, Kansas is a park, and it is a longer drive away. So are the Cloud County Historical Museum, a local history museum, and the Brown Grand Theatre, a theatre. Any outing from Miltonvale means getting in the car for a while.
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- 231households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Cloud County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cloud County had 3,190 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 68°. About 11 inches of snow and 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clay Ctr weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cloud County
- Cloud County Community CollegeTwo-year college259
- Concordia SchoolsSchool district216FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters176
- Cloud County Health CenterCritical access hospital115FTE
- Concordia TechnologiesAngle irons, metal, manufacturing96
- Clifton-Clyde SchoolsSchool district53FTE
- Southern Cloud SchoolsSchool district46FTE
- General FinanceBricks, clay, manufacturing45
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 361 people in all across the county; Miltonvale has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Miltonvale’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 Cloud County and the Salina, KS metro.
Miltonvale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Miltonvale$98,788
- 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 Miltonvale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Miltonvale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.