Parker, Kansas.
Typical home $349,313 (+11.2% in a year). Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,172 (+177%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $35,230 +11%
- $314,083$349,313 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $108,934 +45%
- $240,379$349,313 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.
- Parker$1,833
- 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 Parker, KS rose 11.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Parker, Linn County, Kansas
Parker is a city of 241 people in Linn County. Unemployment in Linn County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Linn County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Parker is a very small Kansas city in Linn County, with a population that makes it one of the smaller places you could live. Homes here are valued well above what most people in the county earn in a year, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and a little snow, and summers turn hot by July, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, manufacturing and shops. Across Linn County, some of the largest workplaces are Prairie View Schools, Jayhawk Schools and Kansas Plant, which makes lintels and concrete products. Most people travel a long way to their jobs, and very few work from home.
Things to do. Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area a longer drive away, and Hillsdale Lake, a reservoir, is also a longer drive away. History-minded visitors can head to Mine Creek Battlefield State Historic Site, an archaeological site that is likewise a longer drive from town.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 43 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Linn County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Linn County had 2,137 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 8 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Osawatomie weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Linn County
- Prairie View SchoolsSchool district181FTE
- Jayhawk SchoolsSchool district89FTE
- Pleasanton SchoolsSchool district62FTE
- Kansas PlantLintels, concrete, manufacturing54
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 54 people in all across the county; Parker has none 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Parker’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Linn County and the Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
Parker home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Parker$349,313
- 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.
- Parker5
Zip codes with a Parker address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Parker — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.