Towanda, Kansas.
Typical home $247,915 (+4.7% in a year), asking rent $950 . Wichita, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$704 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,195 +5%
- $236,720$247,915 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,841 +31%
- $189,074$247,915 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.
- Towanda$1,301
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Towanda, KS rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Towanda, Butler County, Kansas
Towanda is a city of 1,447 people in Butler County. Half its households earn more than $64,327 a year and half less, against $81,610 across Butler County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Butler County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Butler 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Towanda is a small city in Butler County, Kansas, and a young one by the standards of many small towns, with residents who are younger than the typical American. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run below the county's, with a noticeable share of residents living below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with only a little snow, summers get hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Across Butler County, some of the largest workplaces are Butler Community College, Andover Schools and the El Dorado refinery run by HF Sinclair. Fewer than the national norm of adults hold a four-year degree, a typical commute is moderate in length, and some people work from home.
Things to do. The Whitewater River is a short drive away for time by the water. A longer drive brings you to Wichita and the area around it, where the Wichita Art Museum and the Sedgwick County Zoo are among the best known places to visit. El Dorado State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive away for time outdoors.
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- 679households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Butler County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Butler County had 19,973 jobs in 2025, 0.5% 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 91° and lows near 69°. About 4 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the El Dorado weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Butler County
- Butler Community CollegeTwo-year college683
- Andover SchoolsSchool district612FTE
- HF Sinclair, El Dorado RefiningPetroleum refineries486
- Kansas Medical CenterGeneral hospital297FTE
- Circle SchoolsSchool district292FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters242
- Augusta SchoolsSchool district235FTE
- El Dorado SchoolsSchool district235FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 44 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,932 people in all across the county; Towanda has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Towanda’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 Butler County and the Wichita, KS metro.
Towanda home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Towanda$247,915
- Kansas$246,055
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Towanda6
Zip codes with a Towanda address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Towanda — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.