Newton, Kansas.
Typical home $173,176 (+4.8% in a year), asking rent $1,007 (+7.9%). Wichita, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$505 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,900 +5%
- $165,276$173,176 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,311 +34%
- $128,865$173,176 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.
- Newton$909
- 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 Newton, KS rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Newton, KS rose 7.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Newton runs $305/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $397 in Feb 2025.
That is $1,312 a month against $1,007 rent: a $909 mortgage payment, plus $217 property tax and $185 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Newton
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,312
- Renting$1,007
- Mortgage only$909
Property tax · $217/mo 1.51% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Harvey County, KS
Insurance & upkeep · $185/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Newton, Harvey County, Kansas
Newton is a city of 18,602 people in Harvey County. Half its households earn more than $68,885 a year and half less, against $74,368 across Harvey County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Harvey County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer 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. Newton is a small city in Harvey County, Kansas, with a median age close to that of the country as a whole. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though a good number of households rent, and incomes run somewhat below the county's. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and most people reach work with a short commute, with only a few working from home.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing and retail close behind. Among the largest workplaces in Newton are Newton Medical Center, Newton Schools and Prairie View. Across Harvey County, the number of jobs slipped slightly last year, and unemployment is a little higher than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Fischer Field Stadium and Thresher Stadium, both stadiums, are in or beside town, and Dyck Arboretum of the Plains, a botanical garden, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Sedgwick County Zoo and the Wichita Art Museum. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are hot, so spring and fall suit outdoor outings best.
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- 7,595households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Harvey County had 14,096 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 9 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newton weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Newton
- Newton Medical CenterGeneral hospital572FTE
- Newton SchoolsSchool district559FTE
- Paramount Community Living and RehabContinuing care retirement communities351
- Prairie ViewPsychiatric hospital297FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters275
- Dillon StoresSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores154
- Bunting Magnetics CoUnions, pipe, metal, manufacturing141
- Newton Presbyterian ManorContinuing care retirement communities124
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,747 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Newton’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 Harvey County and the Wichita, KS metro.
Newton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Newton$173,176
- 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 4 Newton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 20 days — 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.
- Newton22.46%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Newton20
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Newton82
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Newton28
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Newton$178,367
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Newton98.75%
Zip codes with a Newton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.