Sylvan Grove, Kansas.
Typical home $169,269 (+9.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$611 (+220%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,975 +10%
- $154,295$169,269 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,642 +50%
- $112,627$169,269 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.
- Sylvan Grove$888
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Sylvan Grove, KS rose 9.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sylvan Grove, Lincoln County, Kansas
Sylvan Grove is a city of 291 people in Lincoln County. Unemployment in Lincoln County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lincoln County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sylvan Grove is a very small city, one of the smallest places a person could choose to live in Kansas, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here cost far less than in most of the country, and household incomes across Lincoln County sit below the national level. Winters are cold, with a modest amount of snow, and summers turn hot, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents of Sylvan Grove work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with farming, transport and retail also well represented. Across Lincoln County, the largest workplaces include Lincoln Schools, Sylvan Grove Schools and Lincoln County Hospital. Jobs across the county have fallen a little over the past year, and unemployment there has edged up. A small number of residents work from home.
Things to do. Wilson Lake, a reservoir, and Wilson State Park, a protected area on its shores, are both a short drive away and are the closest places for time on the water or outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Fort Harker, a historic fort, and to Mushroom Rock State Park, a protected area known for its unusual rock formations.
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What people in Lincoln County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lincoln County had 865 jobs in 2025, 4.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 67°. About 10 inches of snow and 26 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wilson Lake weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lincoln County
- Grace TeamNursing homes67
- Lincoln SchoolsSchool district60FTE
- Sylvan Grove SchoolsSchool district49FTE
- Lincoln County HospitalCritical access hospital40FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 67 people in all across the county; Sylvan Grove has none 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
- HailVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sylvan Grove’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 Lincoln County.
Sylvan Grove home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sylvan Grove$169,269
- 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 Sylvan Grove address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sylvan Grove — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.