Offerle, Kansas.
Typical home $152,448 (+5.8% in a year). Dodge City, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$504 (+170%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,311 +6%
- $144,137$152,448 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,182 +45%
- $105,266$152,448 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.
- Offerle$800
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Offerle, KS rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Offerle, Edwards County, Kansas
Offerle is a city of 179 people in Edwards County. Half its households earn more than $49,688 a year and half less, against $52,692 across Edwards County. Unemployment in Edwards County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 16.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Edwards County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Offerle is a very small city on the Kansas plains, home to a close-knit community where neighbors tend to know one another. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a typical home costs far less than in much of the country. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers turn hot.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in farming, with others in manufacturing and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Edwards County, the largest workplaces include Edwards County Hospital, Kinsley-Offerle Schools and Medicalodges Kinsley. Jobs across the county grew over the past year, and unemployment there is close to where it stood a year earlier.
Things to do. Offerle is a place for history-minded day trips, and all of the following are a longer drive away. Fort Larned National Historic Site is a protected area preserving a frontier-era fort, and Fort Dodge is another old fort. Boot Hill Museum is a museum devoted to the history of the old cattle-town West.
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- 16%of adults have a degree
What people in Edwards County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Edwards County had 1,079 jobs in 2025, 16.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 66°. About 15 inches of snow and 27 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kinsley 2E weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Edwards County
- Edwards County HospitalCritical access hospital79FTE
- Kinsley-Offerle SchoolsSchool district55FTE
- Medicalodges KinsleySkilled nursing facilities45
- Cross Manufacturing Inc. - LewisHydraulic cylinders, fluid power, manufacturing39
- Kinsley FeedersFeedlots, cattle32
- Lewis SchoolsSchool district27FTE
- Tyree Ag LLC, KinsleyPesticides, agricultural, merchant wholesalers21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 137 people in all across the county; Offerle has none of its own. 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
- HailVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Offerle’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 Edwards County and the Dodge City, KS metro.
Offerle home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Offerle$152,448
- 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 Offerle address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Offerle — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.