Mulvane, Kansas.
Typical home $236,518 (+3.5% in a year), asking rent $1,371 . Wichita, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$667 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,059 +4%
- $228,460$236,518 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,595 +27%
- $185,924$236,518 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.
- Mulvane$1,241
- 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 Mulvane, KS rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mulvane, Sumner County, Kansas
Mulvane is a city of 6,286 people in Sumner County. Half its households earn more than $74,039 a year and half less, against $63,951 across Sumner County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mulvane is a small city in Sumner County, Kansas, where most homes are lived in by their owners and incomes run above the county's. Residents are somewhat older than in many places, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers get hot, with a fair amount of rain across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and other services close behind. Across Sumner County, some of the largest workplaces are Boyd Gaming, Wellington Schools and Walmart. The typical commute is a short one, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. Bartlett Arboretum, a botanical garden, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Wichita Art Museum and the Sedgwick County Zoo, and the Kansas Aviation Museum is also a longer drive away.
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- 2,527households
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents 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 69°. About 8 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Haysville 3SE weather station, 5 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; Mulvane has two 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mulvane’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.
Mulvane home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mulvane$236,518
- Kansas$246,055
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Mulvane listings — the market is heating up.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Mulvane22.04%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mulvane32
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mulvane10
Zip codes with a Mulvane address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mulvane — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.