Waterville, Kansas.
Typical home $155,974 (+9.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$513 (+168%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,920 +9%
- $143,053$155,974 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,560 +45%
- $107,414$155,974 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.
- Waterville$819
- 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 Waterville, KS rose 9.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Waterville, Marshall County, Kansas
Waterville is a city of 658 people in Marshall County. Half its households earn more than $68,611 a year and half less, against $68,419 across Marshall County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Marshall County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Waterville is a very small Kansas city where most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes sit close to the county's. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and the typical commute is short. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers run hot, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Across Marshall County, some of the largest workplaces are Landoll Company LLC - Marysville, which makes farm equipment, Marysville Schools and Community Memorial Healthcare. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, and there are somewhat fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. The Little Blue River is a short drive away, and so is Alcove Springs, a waterfall. For more time on the water, Tuttle Creek Lake is a reservoir a longer drive away.
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- 354households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marshall County had 4,323 jobs in 2025, 2.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 67°. About 16 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marysville weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marshall County
- Landoll Company LLC - MarysvilleCultivators, farm-type, manufacturing724
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters160
- Marysville SchoolsSchool district151FTE
- Blue Rapids Plasters136
- Community Memorial HealthcareCritical access hospital118FTE
- Vermillion SchoolsSchool district91FTE
- Tension EnvelopeEnvelopes made from any material77
- Valley Heights SchoolsSchool district65FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,409 people in all across the county; Waterville has one of its own. 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
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Waterville’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 Marshall County.
Waterville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Waterville$155,974
- 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 Waterville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Waterville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.