Scammon, Kansas.
Typical home $97,407 (+1.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$246 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,026 +1%
- $96,381$97,407 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $4,550 +5%
- $92,857$97,407 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.
- Scammon$511
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 72 years.
Typical home values in Scammon, KS rose 1.1% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Scammon, Cherokee County, Kansas
Scammon is a city of 376 people in Cherokee County. Half its households earn more than $55,833 a year and half less, against $57,668 across Cherokee County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Scammon is a very small city in Cherokee County, in the southeastern corner of Kansas. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and homes here cost less than in much of the country. Incomes run a little below the county's, and a four-year degree is held by only a small share of adults. Winters are cold, with a light snowfall, and summers get hot, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Cherokee County, some of the largest workplaces are Crossland Construction Company, Celltron and Mid-America Pipe. Some residents work from home, and the county's unemployment rate is the same as it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Prairie State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and it is the best known of the nearby places. Neosho State Fishing Lake, also a protected area a longer drive away, suits a day by the water. Center Creek is a river a longer drive away.
Report a mistake
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 13%work from home
What residents 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, 7 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; Scammon 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Scammon’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 Cherokee County.
Scammon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Scammon$97,407
- 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 Scammon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Scammon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.