Waverly, Kansas.
Typical home $211,277 (+5.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$701 (+172%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,324 +5%
- $200,953$211,277 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,399 +41%
- $149,877$211,277 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.
- Waverly$1,109
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Waverly, KS rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Waverly, Coffey County, Kansas
Waverly is a city of 574 people in Coffey County. Half its households earn more than $70,893 a year and half less, against $70,346 across Coffey County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Coffey County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Coffey County work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Waverly is a very small Kansas city in Coffey County, home to far fewer people than most towns of its kind. Residents are of middle age on the whole, and household incomes sit just above the county's. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults than you might find in larger places, and some residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July, with rain and melted snow spread across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by transport, warehouses and utilities, then shops and manufacturing. Across Coffey County, some of the biggest workplaces are Evergy, which generates nuclear electric power, Burlington Schools, and Coffey County Hospital. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs over the past year, and a few residents work from home.
Things to do. Water is the main draw nearby. Melvern Lake and Pomona Lake are both reservoirs, each a longer drive away, and Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area also a longer drive from town. Together they suit anglers, boaters and anyone who likes time outdoors.
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- 250households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
What people in Coffey County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Coffey County had 3,448 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Melvern Lake weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Coffey County
- EvergyNuclear electric power generation755
- Burlington SchoolsSchool district237FTE
- Coffey County HospitalCritical access hospital163FTE
- Life Care Center of BurlingtonSkilled nursing facilities89
- Lebo-Waverly SchoolsSchool district76FTE
- EMP ShieldLightning protection equipment manufacturing50
- Wheeler ConsolidatedTruss manufacturing40
- LeRoy-Gridley SchoolsSchool district33FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 962 people in all across the county; Waverly has two 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
- LightningVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Waverly’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 Coffey County.
Waverly home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Waverly$211,277
- 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.
- Waverly6
Zip codes with a Waverly address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Waverly — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.