St. John, Kansas.
Typical home $78,834 (+7.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$234 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,581 +8%
- $73,253$78,834 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,670 +36%
- $58,164$78,834 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.
- St. John$414
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in St. John, KS rose 7.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in St. John, Stafford County, Kansas
St. John is a city of 1,228 people in Stafford County. Half its households earn more than $73,929 a year and half less, against $64,226 across Stafford County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Stafford County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. St. John is a small city in Stafford County, Kansas, where most homes are lived in by their owners and typical home values are modest. Household incomes run above the county's, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, summers get hot, and the year brings some snow along with a fair amount of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in farming, the building trades and local shops. Across Stafford County, some of the largest workplaces are Stafford Schools, St John-Hudson Schools and Stafford County Flour Mills. Unemployment is steady compared with a year earlier, and the typical commute is short, with very few people working from home.
Things to do. For a day out, Fort Larned National Historic Site is a protected area with a frontier fort, and Quivira National Wildlife Refuge is another protected area, both a longer drive away. Great Bend Zoo is also a longer drive away, and the Pawnee River offers a river setting in the same wider area.
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- 414households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Stafford County had 1,213 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 68°. About 18 inches of snow and 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hudson weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Stafford County
- Stafford SchoolsSchool district73FTE
- St John-Hudson SchoolsSchool district56FTE
- Macksville SchoolsSchool district51FTE
- Stafford County Flour MillsWheat flour manufacturing42
- Leisure Homestead at StaffordNursing homes40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 82 people in all across the county; St. John has one 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
- HailVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in St. John’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 Stafford County.
St. John home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- St. John$78,834
- 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.
- St. John9
Zip codes with a St. John address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls St. John — 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.