Weir, Kansas.
Typical home $123,913 (+6.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$368 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,321 +6%
- $116,591$123,913 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,849 +25%
- $99,064$123,913 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.
- Weir$650
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Weir, KS rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Weir, Cherokee County, Kansas
Weir is a city of 569 people in Cherokee County. Half its households earn more than $58,828 a year and half less, against $57,668 across Cherokee County. Unemployment in Cherokee County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cherokee 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Weir is a very small city in Cherokee County, in the southeastern corner of Kansas. Household incomes here run a little above the county's, and homes are valued modestly compared with much of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest. Snow is light and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. People in Weir work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many residents. Few adults hold a four-year degree compared with many places, and the typical commute is a long one, so a good share of residents travel some distance for work. Across Cherokee County, some of the largest workplaces are Crossland Construction Company, Celltron and Mid-America Pipe.
Things to do. The best-known place nearby is Prairie State Park, a protected area a longer drive away. Crawford State Park, also a protected area, and Neosho State Fishing Lake are likewise a longer drive away. Blackberry Creek, a river, is another place to get outdoors a longer drive from town.
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- 16%of adults have a degree
- 32 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Cherokee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cherokee County had 5,968 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 10 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pittsburg weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cherokee County
- Crossland Construction CompanyCommercial building construction general contractors1,375
- Crossland Heavy ContractorsHorizontal drilling625
- CelltronRectifiers, electronic component-type, manufacturing417
- Shape Technologies GroupPrecision turned product manufacturing302
- Mid-America PipePipe made from purchased iron or steel178
- Jayhawk Fine ChemicalsOrgano-inorganic compound manufacturing138
- Atec 1Bulk storage tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing135
- Galena SchoolsSchool district129FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,950 people in all across the county; Weir has none of its own. 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Weir’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 Cherokee County.
Weir home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Weir$123,913
- 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.
- Weir5
Zip codes with a Weir address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Weir — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.