Mount Hope, Kansas.
Typical home $237,000 (+4.7% in a year). Wichita, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$704 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,681 +5%
- $226,319$237,000 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,356 +33%
- $177,644$237,000 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.
- Mount Hope$1,244
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Mount Hope, KS rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mount Hope, Sedgwick County, Kansas
Mount Hope is a city of 806 people in Sedgwick County. Half its households earn more than $74,926 a year and half less, against $69,365 across Sedgwick County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Sedgwick County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sedgwick 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mount Hope is a small city in Sedgwick County, home to a small population that knows one another's names. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, incomes run above the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and summers turn hot, with a modest yearly total of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services close behind. Across Sedgwick County, some of the largest workplaces are Spirit AeroSystems, Wichita Schools and Textron Aviation - Mid-Continent. Commutes are fairly long, and only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center is a museum a longer drive away, as is the Sedgwick County Zoo. For time outdoors, Cheney Reservoir is also a longer drive away, and a good choice for a day by the water.
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- 23%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Sedgwick County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sedgwick County had 265,869 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 68°. About 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hutchinson Municipal Airport weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sedgwick County
- Spirit AeroSystemsAircraft assemblies, subassemblies, and parts manufacturing11,669
- Wichita SchoolsSchool district7,727FTE
- Textron Aviation - Mid-ContinentAircraft manufacturing5,249
- Wichita State UniversityUniversity or college3,108
- VIA Christi Hospital WichitaGeneral hospital2,496FTE
- Textron Aviation - East CampusAircraft manufacturing2,253
- Wesley Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,181FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,518
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 529 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 86,668 people in all across the county; Mount Hope has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mount Hope’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 Sedgwick County and the Wichita, KS metro.
Mount Hope home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Hope$237,000
- 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 Mount Hope address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Hope — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.