Moran, Kansas.
Typical home $80,124 (+11.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$228 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,910 +11%
- $72,214$80,124 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $10,675 +15%
- $69,449$80,124 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.
- Moran$421
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Moran, KS rose 11.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Moran, Allen County, Kansas
Moran is a city of 466 people in Allen County. Unemployment in Allen County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Allen 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Moran is a very small city in Allen County, Kansas, the kind of place where residents are likely to know one another. Homes here are priced well below what many Americans pay, and the county's household incomes are modest. Winters are cold, summers are hot, and snow is light compared with much of the country, while rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and the building trades also well represented. Very few work from home. Across Allen County, some of the largest workplaces are Russell Stover Chocolates in Iola, B&W Trailer Hitches and Allen County Regional Hospital. Unemployment across the county is higher than a year ago, and the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. Wolfpen Creek is a river a short drive away and the closest of the nearby places. A longer drive brings you to Fort Scott National Historic Site, a protected area, and to Iola's Fort. Limestone Creek, another river, is also a longer drive away.
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- 12%below the poverty line
- 2%work from home
What people in Allen County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Allen County had 5,650 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°. About 7 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Iola West weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Allen County
- B&W Trailer HitchesTrailer hitches, motor vehicle, manufacturing511
- Russell Stover Chocolates LLC IolaCandy manufacturing360
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters205
- Allen County Community CollegeTwo-year college187
- Iola SchoolsSchool district180FTE
- Allen County Regional HospitalCritical access hospital121FTE
- Humboldt SchoolsSchool district92FTE
- Medicalodges IolaSkilled nursing facilities57
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,416 people in all across the county; Moran has two 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Moran’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Allen County.
Moran home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Moran$80,124
- 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 Moran address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Moran — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.