Riverton, Kansas.
Typical home $173,985 (+4.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$559 (+158%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,667 +5%
- $166,317$173,985 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,870 +42%
- $122,115$173,985 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.
- Riverton$913
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Riverton, KS rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Riverton, Cherokee County, Kansas
Riverton, in Cherokee County, had 771 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $90,365 a year and half less, against $57,668 across Cherokee County; 0% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Cherokee County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cherokee 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Riverton is a very small community in Cherokee County, in the southeastern corner of Kansas. Households here earn well above the county's typical income, and the town has no one living below the poverty line. Homes are valued at a modest level for the country as a whole. Winters are cold and bring a little snow, while summers turn hot and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Cherokee County, some of the largest workplaces are Crossland Construction Company, Crossland Heavy Contractors and Celltron. The commute is a fairly short one, about what many people face in a small-town setting.
Things to do. A short drive away are Turkey Creek, a river, and Fort Baxter, a fort, along with a few other small waterways such as Fivemile Creek. For a longer outing, the George Washington Carver National Monument is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Spring River is another river that takes a longer drive to reach.
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- 0%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
What people in Cherokee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cherokee County had 5,968 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 7 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Columbus weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cherokee County
- Crossland Construction CompanyCommercial building construction general contractors1,375
- Crossland Heavy ContractorsHorizontal drilling625
- CelltronRectifiers, electronic component-type, manufacturing417
- Shape Technologies GroupPrecision turned product manufacturing302
- Mid-America PipePipe made from purchased iron or steel178
- Jayhawk Fine ChemicalsOrgano-inorganic compound manufacturing138
- Atec 1Bulk storage tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing135
- Galena SchoolsSchool district129FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,950 people in all across the county; Riverton has one 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Riverton’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 Cherokee County.
Riverton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Riverton$173,985
- 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.
- Riverton10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Riverton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Riverton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.