New Strawn, Kansas.
Typical home $225,658 (+1.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$635 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,031 +2%
- $221,626$225,658 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,921 +28%
- $176,737$225,658 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.
- New Strawn$1,184
- 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 New Strawn, KS rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in New Strawn, Coffey County, Kansas
New Strawn is a city of 414 people in Coffey County. Half its households earn more than $114,318 a year and half less, against $70,346 across Coffey County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Coffey County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in transport and warehouses, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. New Strawn is a very small Kansas city in Coffey County, where almost everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect for a town this size. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers turn hot by July, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in transport, warehouses and utilities, in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, and in shops. Across Coffey County, some of the largest workplaces are Evergy, which generates nuclear electric power, Burlington Schools, and Coffey County Hospital. Commutes are short, and unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year.
Things to do. Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, and John Redmond Reservoir are both a short drive away, and Jacobs Creek is nearby too. For a longer outing, Melvern Lake is a reservoir a longer drive away, and the David Traylor Zoo of Emporia is also a longer drive.
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- 180households
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 13 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Coffey County had 3,448 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the John Redmond Lake weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Coffey County
- EvergyNuclear electric power generation755
- Burlington SchoolsSchool district237FTE
- Coffey County HospitalCritical access hospital163FTE
- Life Care Center of BurlingtonSkilled nursing facilities89
- Lebo-Waverly SchoolsSchool district76FTE
- EMP ShieldLightning protection equipment manufacturing50
- Wheeler ConsolidatedTruss manufacturing40
- LeRoy-Gridley SchoolsSchool district33FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 962 people in all across the county; New Strawn has none of its own. School districts come 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
- LightningVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in New Strawn’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Coffey County.
New Strawn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- New Strawn$225,658
- 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 New Strawn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls New Strawn — 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.