Prairie View, Kansas.
Typical home $141,454 (+3.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$402 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,922 +4%
- $136,531$141,454 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,206 +22%
- $116,248$141,454 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.
- Prairie View$742
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Prairie View, KS rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Prairie View, Phillips County, Kansas
Prairie View is a city of 106 people in Phillips County. Unemployment in Phillips County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Phillips County work in schools and health care, then farming.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Prairie View is a small city in Phillips County, in northern Kansas, where most people know one another. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with a moderate amount of snow and a fair amount of rain over the year. The town's homes are modest in price and most of its households are owner-occupied, so many people here have lived in the same place for a long time.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in farming, forestry and mining, in government, or in other services. Few people work from home, and most commutes are a short drive. Jobs have edged down slightly over the past year, while unemployment has held steady.
Things to do. A longer drive away, Prairie Dog State Park is a protected area that offers a quiet place to spend time outdoors. Harlan County Reservoir, also a longer drive away, is one of the larger bodies of water in the region. Kirwin National Wildlife Refuge, another longer drive away, is a protected area set aside for wildlife.
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- 4%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Phillips County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Phillips County had 2,194 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 66°. About 17 inches of snow and 26 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Phillipsburg #2 weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Phillips County
- TAMKO Building Products LLC - PhillipsburgAsphalt shingles made from purchased asphaltic materials105
- Phillips County HospitalCritical access hospital87FTE
- Phillipsburg SchoolsSchool district82FTE
- Logan SchoolsSchool district31FTE
- PipestoneAdministrative management and general management consulting services31
- PipestoneAdministrative management and general management consulting services25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 299 people in all across the county; Prairie View 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
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Prairie View’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 Phillips County.
Prairie View home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Prairie View$141,454
- 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 Prairie View address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Prairie View — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.