Republic, Kansas.
Typical home $134,722 (+1.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$406 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,629 +1%
- $133,093$134,722 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,917 +38%
- $97,806$134,722 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.
- Republic$707
- 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 Republic, KS rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Republic, Republic County, Kansas
Republic is a city of 82 people in Republic County. Half its households earn more than $72,964 a year and half less, against $56,833 across Republic County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Republic County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Republic County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Republic is a small city in north-central Kansas, in Republic County, where most of the homes are lived in by the people who own them. Its typical home value is modest by the standards of most American cities, and the town's residents have incomes that are higher than those of the wider county. Winters are colder than in much of the country, and summers are hot, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in farming, forestry and mining, or in manufacturing. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and few people work from home. Most people's commutes are shorter than the typical commute across the country.
Things to do. The Pawnee Indian Museum State Historic Site, an archaeological site, is in or beside town. Lovewell Reservoir and the Brown Grand Theatre are both a longer drive away, the reservoir for time on the water and the theatre for performances.
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- 5%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Republic County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Republic County had 1,895 jobs in 2025, 2.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 69°. About 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Courtland weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Republic County
- Great Plains of RepublicCritical access hospital139FTE
- Reinke Manufacturing CoIrrigation equipment, agriculture, manufacturing119
- Republic County SchoolsSchool district76FTE
- Zoltenko FarmsHog and pig farming58
- Pike Valley SchoolsSchool district43FTE
- Polansky SeedSeeds merchant wholesalers23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 417 people in all across the county; Republic 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Republic’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 Republic County.
Republic home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Republic$134,722
- 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 Republic address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Republic — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.