Peabody, Kansas.
Typical home $111,287 (+6.3% in a year). Wichita, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$338 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,632 +6%
- $104,655$111,287 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,730 +38%
- $80,557$111,287 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.
- Peabody$584
- 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 Peabody, KS rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Peabody, Marion County, Kansas
Peabody is a city of 937 people in Marion County. Half its households earn more than $54,653 a year and half less, against $64,695 across Marion County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Marion County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Peabody is a small city in Marion County, Kansas, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold while summers turn hot, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops. Across Marion County, some of the largest workplaces are Barkman Honey, Tabor College and Marion-Florence Schools. The typical commute is fairly long, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. Peabody City Park is in or beside town, and it is the easiest place to get outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Marion County Lake, a reservoir, and Cedar Creek, a river. Wild West World, an amusement park, is also a longer drive away.
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- 418households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marion County had 3,639 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Florence weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marion County
- Barkman HoneyHoney processing147
- Tabor CollegeUniversity or college135
- Mennonite Bethesda SocietyContinuing care retirement communities92
- Marion-Florence SchoolsSchool district86FTE
- Parkside HomesSkilled nursing facilities82
- Durham-Hillsboro-Lehigh SchoolsSchool district80FTE
- Hillsboro IndustriesTruck trailer manufacturing77
- St. Luke HospitalCritical access hospital76FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 893 people in all across the county; Peabody has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailVery high
- LightningVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Peabody’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 Marion County and the Wichita, KS metro.
Peabody home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Peabody$111,287
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Peabody address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Peabody — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.