Sylvia, Kansas.
Typical home $118,397 (+5.1% in a year). Hutchinson, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$366 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,717 +5%
- $112,680$118,397 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $22,752 +24%
- $95,645$118,397 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.
- Sylvia$621
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Sylvia, KS rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sylvia, Reno County, Kansas
Sylvia is a city of 215 people in Reno County. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% are rented. Unemployment in Reno County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Reno County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sylvia is a very small city, among the smaller places in the county, where nearly every home is lived in by its owner. Typical home values are well below what many older homeowners elsewhere would expect. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the daily trip to work is short.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Reno County, some of the largest workplaces are Hutchinson Public Schools, Hutchinson Regional Medical Center and Hutchinson Community College. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, and the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers get hot, with a moderate amount of rain and melted snow through the year. For a day out, Quivira National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center is a museum, also a longer drive away. Hutchinson Zoo is a longer drive away too.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 17 mintypical commute
What people in Reno County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Reno County had 26,738 jobs in 2025, 0.3% 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, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Reno County
- Hutchinson Public SchoolsSchool district868FTE
- Hutchinson Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital818FTE
- Hutchinson Community CollegeTwo-year college629
- Tyson Prepared FoodsMeat processed from carcasses453
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters339
- Dillon StoresSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores278
- Buhler SchoolsSchool district234FTE
- Tyson Prepared FoodsMeat processed from carcasses226
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 61 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,482 people in all across the county; Sylvia has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sylvia’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 Reno County and the Hutchinson, KS metro.
Sylvia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sylvia$118,397
- 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 Sylvia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sylvia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.