Whiting, Kansas.
. Topeka, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$717 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
Living in Whiting, Jackson County, Kansas
Whiting is a city of 191 people in Jackson County. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Jackson County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jackson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Whiting is a very small city in Jackson County, Kansas, where most homes are lived in by their owners and neighbors are likely to know one another. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn hot. Rain and melted snow arrive through the year in fair measure.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and government also common. Across Jackson County, some of the largest workplaces are Prairie Band Casino & Resort, Johnsonville and Holton Schools. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year earlier, though the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Delaware River is a longer drive away, and so is Lewis and Clark State Park, a protected area with room for time outdoors. The International Forest of Friendship, a botanical garden, is also a longer drive away. Each makes a worthwhile day out.
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- 7%below the poverty line
What people in Jackson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 4,454 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 11 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Horton weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- Prairie Band Casino & Resort815
- JohnsonvilleAnimal slaughtering226
- Holton SchoolsSchool district204FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters196
- TechsEmergency medical transportation services, air or ground155
- Royal Valley SchoolsSchool district132FTE
- Holton Community HospitalCritical access hospital120FTE
- North Jackson SchoolsSchool district67FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,573 people in all across the county; Whiting has none 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Whiting’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 Jackson County and the Topeka, KS metro.
Whiting home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Whiting address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Whiting — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.