Sawyer, Kansas.
Typical home $148,066 (+10.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$454 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,314 +11%
- $133,753$148,066 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,426 +31%
- $112,641$148,066 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.
- Sawyer$777
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Sawyer, KS rose 10.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sawyer, Pratt County, Kansas
Sawyer is a city of 89 people in Pratt County. Unemployment in Pratt County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pratt 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sawyer is a small city in Pratt County, in south-central Kansas, on the Great Plains. Winters are cold and snowy, with more snow than in many parts of the country, and summers are hot. Rain falls fairly often, enough to keep the surrounding land green for much of the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in shops and other retail. Farming, forestry and mining also provide work, as do restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Pratt County, jobs have been growing slightly over the past year.
Things to do. Most daily life here centers on the town and the people in it, where neighbors tend to know one another. Anyone looking for outings may find that the larger towns and open countryside nearby suit a slower pace.
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- 2%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
What people in Pratt County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pratt County had 4,637 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 67°. About 15 inches of snow and 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pratt 3NW weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pratt County
- Pratt Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital267FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters169
- Pratt SchoolsSchool district140FTE
- Pratt Community CollegeTwo-year college126
- Dillon StoresSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores73
- Arrowhead WestHabilitation job counseling and training, vocational72
- Skyline SchoolsSchool district56FTE
- Mission Health CommunitiesHomes for the elderly with nursing care53
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 647 people in all across the county; Sawyer has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- DroughtVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sawyer’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Pratt County.
Sawyer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sawyer$148,066
- 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 Sawyer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sawyer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.