Sedan, Kansas.
Typical home $42,589 (+3.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$124 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,371 +3%
- $41,218$42,589 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $8,058 +23%
- $34,531$42,589 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.
- Sedan$224
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Sedan, KS rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sedan, Chautauqua County, Kansas
Sedan is a city of 1,000 people in Chautauqua County. Half its households earn more than $46,827 a year and half less, against $56,438 across Chautauqua County; 22% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Chautauqua County was 5.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sedan is a small city in Chautauqua County, Kansas, where most homes are lived in by their owners and typical home values are low. Household incomes run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect of a town this size. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical trip to work is short.
Work. Schools, hospitals and social care employ more of the town's residents than any other field, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. The largest workplaces in Sedan include the Chautauqua County community schools, Sedan City Hospital and Americare Senior Living. Unemployment in the county is higher than a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. In or beside town is the Emmett Kelly Museum, a museum devoted to the famous clown. A longer drive away are Elk City State Park and the lake beside it, Elk City Lake, which together make a base for time outdoors. Also a longer drive away is Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, a protected area of open prairie. Winters are cold with a little snow, and summers are hot, so spring and fall suit outings best.
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- 411households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 14 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chautauqua County had 748 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 69°. About 9 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sedan weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sedan
- Chautauqua Co Community SchoolsSchool district66FTE
- Americare Senior LivingHealthcare39
- Sedan FloralPlant, ornamental, growing38
- Sedan City HospitalCritical access hospital33FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 77 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
- WildfireVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sedan’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 Chautauqua County.
Sedan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sedan$42,589
- 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.
- Sedan6
Zip codes with a Sedan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sedan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.