WaKeeney, Kansas.
Typical home $132,055 (-5.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$374 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,402 -5%
- $139,457$132,055 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $16,103 +14%
- $115,952$132,055 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.
- WaKeeney$693
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in WaKeeney, KS fell 5.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in WaKeeney, Trego County, Kansas
WaKeeney is a city of 1,799 people in Trego County. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Trego County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 7.0% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. WaKeeney is a small city in Trego County, Kansas, and the people who live here are somewhat older than in most places. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and the share of residents living below the poverty line is low. A good number of adults hold a four-year degree, and getting to work takes only a few minutes. Winters are cold, summers turn hot, and snow and rain both fall in modest amounts through the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with farming, the building trades and shops also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in WaKeeney are Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital, Trego County Schools and Malay's Market. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Cedar Bluff State Park is a protected area, and Cedar Bluff Reservoir is the body of water beside it, both a longer drive away. Nicodemus National Historic Site and the Bukovina Society Headquarters and Museum are museums, also a longer drive away, for those who like local history.
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- 854households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 13 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Trego County had 1,027 jobs in 2025, 7.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 66°. About 20 inches of snow and 24 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wakeeney weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in WaKeeney
- Trego County Lemke Memorial HospitalHospitals, general medical and surgical155
- Trego County SchoolsSchool district75FTE
- Malay's MarketGrocery stores28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 183 people in all. 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
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery 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 WaKeeney’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 Trego County.
WaKeeney home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- WaKeeney$132,055
- 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.
- WaKeeney8
Zip codes with a WaKeeney address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls WaKeeney — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.