Thayer, Kansas.
Typical home $185,257 (+7.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$663 (+214%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,540 +7%
- $172,717$185,257 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,923 +49%
- $124,334$185,257 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.
- Thayer$972
- 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 Thayer, KS rose 7.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Thayer, Neosho County, Kansas
Thayer is a city of 432 people in Neosho County. Half its households earn more than $85,635 a year and half less, against $56,618 across Neosho County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Neosho County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Neosho 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Thayer is a very small city in Neosho County, in southeast Kansas, with a population smaller than most towns you would think of as small. Households here earn more than the county's households as a whole, and typical home values sit at a level many owners would consider modest. Winters are cold and summers turn hot, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Across Neosho County, the largest workplaces include Neosho Memorial Regional MED CTR, a critical access hospital, along with Orizon Chanute Assembly, which builds aircraft, and Neosho County Community College. The county has seen slightly fewer jobs than a year earlier, and a typical commute is an ordinary drive rather than a long haul.
Things to do. Lake Parsons, a reservoir, is a short drive away and is the closest spot for time on the water. A longer drive brings you to Elk City State Park, a protected area, and to Parsons Arboretum, a botanical garden. Fort Belmont, a fort, is also within a longer drive for anyone interested in local history.
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- 9%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
What people in Neosho County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Neosho County had 6,461 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Parsons Tri City Airport weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Neosho County
- Neosho Memorial Regional MED CTRCritical access hospital337FTE
- Orizon Chanute AssemblyAircraft manufacturing311
- Neosho County Community CollegeTwo-year college287
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters231
- Chanute Public SchoolsSchool district210FTE
- The Babcock & Wilcox CompanyPower boilers manufacturing151
- Orizon Aerostructures ProcessingAnodizing metals and metal products for the trade125
- Erie-Galesburg SchoolsSchool district69FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,384 people in all across the county; Thayer has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Thayer’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 Neosho County.
Thayer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Thayer$185,257
- 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 Thayer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Thayer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.