Parkerfield, Kansas.
Typical home $260,180 (+4.5% in a year). Winfield, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$776 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,307 +5%
- $248,873$260,180 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $70,584 +37%
- $189,596$260,180 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.
- Parkerfield$1,366
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Parkerfield, KS rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Parkerfield, Cowley County, Kansas
Parkerfield is a city of 406 people in Cowley County. 98% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 2% are rented. Unemployment in Cowley County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cowley County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Parkerfield is a very small Kansas city, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Hardly anyone falls below the poverty line, though household incomes across Cowley County run below the national picture. A typical home costs less than in most of the country. Winters are cold, with January highs a little above freezing and lows well below it, while July is hot. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Cowley County, some of the largest workplaces are Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, Winfield Schools and Southwestern College. Jobs in the county grew slightly last year, and unemployment there is about where it was a year ago. The usual trip to work is short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Walnut River runs in or beside town, a natural spot for time near the water. A longer drive brings you to Kaw Lake, a large reservoir, and to the Poncan Theatre. Bartlett Arboretum, a botanical garden, is also a longer drive away.
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- 187households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 1%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Cowley County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cowley County had 13,138 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Winfield Strother Field Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cowley County
- Creekstone Farms Premium BeefMeats fresh, chilled or frozen, produced in slaughtering plants1,200
- GE Engine Services709
- Winfield SchoolsSchool district601FTE
- Arkansas City SchoolsSchool district376FTE
- Southwestern CollegeUniversity or college351
- Cowley County Community CollegeTwo-year college298
- Newell Brands LLC - RubbermaidTrash containers, plastics, manufacturing297
- Western Industries Plastic ProductsDrums, plastics, manufacturing269
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 35 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,767 people in all across the county; Parkerfield has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Parkerfield’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 Cowley County and the Winfield, KS metro.
Parkerfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Parkerfield$260,180
- 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 Parkerfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Parkerfield — 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.