Wamego, Kansas.
Typical home $301,562 (+4.7% in a year). Manhattan, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$812 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,567 +5%
- $287,995$301,562 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,655 +29%
- $233,907$301,562 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.
- Wamego$1,583
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Wamego, KS rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wamego, Pottawatomie County, Kansas
Wamego is a city of 4,841 people in Pottawatomie County. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Pottawatomie County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wamego is a small Kansas city where most homes are lived in by their owners, and poverty is uncommon. The population is somewhat younger than in much of the country, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January highs a little above freezing and lows well below it, and summers are hot, with July the warmest month. Snow falls most winters, and rain and melted snow through the year add up to a moderate amount.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with government, other services, and transport, warehouses and utilities also common. The largest workplaces in Wamego include Wamego Schools, Ebert Construction Co, and Wamego Hospital Association. The typical commute is a fairly short one, and only a small share of people work from home. Across Pottawatomie County, unemployment was a little higher than a year earlier, and the number of jobs slipped slightly from the year before.
Things to do. For time on the water, Tuttle Creek Lake is a reservoir a longer drive away, and the Big Blue River is another place to get outdoors from there. Konza Prairie biosphere reserve, a protected area also a longer drive away, preserves a stretch of the Flint Hills tallgrass country. For a museum visit, the Flint Hills Discovery Center is likewise a longer drive away.
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- 1,793households
- 41%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pottawatomie County had 9,996 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 17 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wamego West weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wamego
- Wamego SchoolsSchool district379FTE
- Ebert Construction CoCulverts, highway, road and street, construction55
- Wamego Hospital AssociationCritical access hospital49FTE
- DymaxLand preparation machinery, construction, manufacturing48
- Advocate Home Specialty CareHome health agencies24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 245 people in all. 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wamego’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 Pottawatomie County and the Manhattan, KS metro.
Wamego home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wamego$301,562
- Kansas$246,055
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Wamego listings — the market is cooling.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Wamego34.25%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wamego30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wamego10
Zip codes with a Wamego address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wamego — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.