Prescott, Kansas.
Typical home $177,696 (+13.3% in a year). Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$568 (+156%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,912 +13%
- $156,785$177,696 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,787 +39%
- $127,909$177,696 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.
- Prescott$933
- 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 Prescott, KS rose 13.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Prescott, Linn County, Kansas
Prescott is a city of 207 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Prescott is a very small city in Linn County, in eastern Kansas, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and household incomes across Linn County sit below the national picture. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July.
Work. Residents of Prescott work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with building trades, manufacturing and shops also employing many. Very few work from home. Across Linn County, some of the largest workplaces are the Prairie View Schools, Jayhawk Schools and Pleasanton Schools districts. Jobs across the county grew a little last year, and unemployment there has eased compared with a year earlier.
Things to do. Mine Creek Battlefield State Historic Site, an archaeological site tied to the Civil War, is a short drive away. Fish Creek, a river, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Fort Scott National Historic Site is a protected area a longer drive off, as is the Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge.
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- 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 41° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 67°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mound City 1SSW weather station, 8 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; Prescott 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 windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Prescott’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 Linn County and the Kansas City, MO-KS metro.
Prescott home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Prescott$177,696
- 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 Prescott address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Prescott — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.