Osborne, Kansas.
Typical home $86,843 (-5.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$249 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,147 -6%
- $91,990$86,843 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $22,279 +35%
- $64,564$86,843 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.
- Osborne$456
- 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 Osborne, KS fell 5.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Osborne, Osborne County, Kansas
Osborne is a city of 1,335 people in Osborne County. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Osborne County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Osborne is a small Kansas city where people are older than in most places, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Homes cost less than in much of the country, and winters are cold, with January highs staying near freezing and lows well below it. Summers turn hot by July, and the year brings a moderate amount of snow and a fair amount of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and banks, insurance and property also giving people a living. The largest workplaces in town include Parkview Health & Rehabilitation Center, Osborne County Schools and Osborne County Memorial Hospital. Few people work from home, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in the country as a whole.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Waconda Lake is a reservoir a longer drive away, and the geographic center of the contiguous United States, marked as a park, is a longer drive away too. Kirwin National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, also lies a longer drive away, and anyone who likes walking along water can follow the Solomon River's forks in the same part of the county.
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- 641households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Osborne County had 1,254 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 65°. About 18 inches of snow and 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Alton West weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Osborne
- Parkview Health & Rehabilitation CenterNursing homes88
- Osborne County SchoolsSchool district55FTE
- Osborne County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital52FTE
- Star Seed519140
- Star Seed, OsborneSeeds merchant wholesalers34
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 162 people in all. 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
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Osborne’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Osborne County.
Osborne home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Osborne$86,843
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Osborne6
Zip codes with a Osborne address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Osborne — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.