Sabetha, Kansas.
Typical home $207,528 (+9.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$631 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,641 +10%
- $188,887$207,528 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,622 +40%
- $147,906$207,528 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.
- Sabetha$1,089
- 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 Sabetha, KS rose 9.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sabetha, Nemaha County, Kansas
Sabetha is a city of 2,545 people in Nemaha County. Half its households earn more than $70,464 a year and half less, against $77,348 across Nemaha County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Nemaha County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sabetha is a small city in northeastern Kansas, home to a population on the younger side compared with many small towns. Incomes run a little below the county's, and most homes are lived in by their owners. A fair number of adults hold a four-year degree, and the Delaware River runs in or beside town.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in Sabetha are Wenger Manufacturing, Extru-Tech, and Prairie Hills Schools. Commutes are short, and almost no one works from home.
Things to do. The Delaware River is in or beside town, and Fort Plymouth is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Indian Cave State Park and the Itha T. Krumme Memorial Arboretum, a botanical garden. Winters are cold and fairly snowy, and summers are warm, so the seasons shape how people spend time outdoors.
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- 1,155households
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 10 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Nemaha County had 5,766 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 17 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hiawatha South weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sabetha
- Apostolic Christian HomeGroup homes for the disabled with nursing care190
- Prairie Hills SchoolsSchool district148FTE
- Wenger Manufacturing, Inc. - 714 Main StFood choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers manufacturing136
- Wenger Manufacturing, Inc. - 15 Commerce DrFood choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers manufacturing99
- Extru-TechFood choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers manufacturing82
- Great Plains of SabethaCritical access hospital82FTE
- CW Mill Equipment Co., Inc. HeadquartersMobile feed mill38
- Americare Senior LivingHealthcare32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 577 people in all. School districts come 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sabetha’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 Nemaha County.
Sabetha home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sabetha$207,528
- 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.
- Sabetha11
Zip codes with a Sabetha address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sabetha — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.