Solomon, Kansas.
Typical home $182,687 (+5.4% in a year). Salina, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$538 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,344 +5%
- $173,343$182,687 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,980 +29%
- $141,707$182,687 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.
- Solomon$959
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Solomon, KS rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Solomon, Ottawa County, Kansas
Solomon is a city of 993 people in Ottawa County. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Ottawa County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ottawa County work in schools and health care, then finance and property.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Solomon is a very small city, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. Typical home values are modest, and only a small share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with a little snow, and summers get properly hot, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with banks, insurance and property, manufacturing, and farming also well represented. Across Ottawa County, some of the largest workplaces are Huyett, a maker of nuts and metal parts, Twin Valley Schools and Great Plains of Ottawa County, a critical access hospital. Commutes are short, and relatively few people work from home.
Things to do. The Solomon River runs in or beside town, and Gypsum Creek is a short drive away. Also a short drive away is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home, a museum telling the story of the former president's early years. For a longer outing, Milford Lake is a reservoir a longer drive away.
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- 379households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Ottawa County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ottawa County had 1,274 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 69°. About 12 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Abilene weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ottawa County
- HuyettNuts, metal, manufacturing141
- Abilene MachineHarvesting machinery and equipment, agriculture, manufacturing135
- Twin Valley SchoolsSchool district94FTE
- North Ottawa County SchoolsSchool district84FTE
- Recover CareSkilled nursing facilities65
- Great Plains of Ottawa CountyCritical access hospital63FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 459 people in all across the county; Solomon has two of its own. 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Solomon’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 Ottawa County and the Salina, KS metro.
Solomon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Solomon$182,687
- 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.
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Zip codes with a Solomon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Solomon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.