Williamsburg, Kansas.
Typical home $298,755 (+4.8% in a year). Ottawa, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,001 (+176%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,551 +5%
- $285,204$298,755 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $93,040 +45%
- $205,715$298,755 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.
- Williamsburg$1,568
- 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 Williamsburg, KS rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Williamsburg, Franklin County, Kansas
Williamsburg is a city of 390 people in Franklin County. Half its households earn more than $73,125 a year and half less, against $77,207 across Franklin County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Franklin County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Franklin County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Williamsburg is a very small city in Franklin County, Kansas, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers turn hot by July, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in manufacturing. Across Franklin County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Ottawa Schools and Ottawa University-Ottawa. Jobs across the county slipped slightly over the past year, and the county's unemployment rate is close to where it stood a year earlier.
Things to do. Most outings from Williamsburg mean a longer drive. Melvern Lake and Pomona Lake are reservoirs, and Pomona State Park is a protected area where people go for time outdoors. The Old Depot Museum is the place to go for local history.
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- 3%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Franklin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Franklin County had 10,062 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pomona Lake weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Franklin County
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage833
- American Eagle Outfitters Retail Distribution WestGeneral warehousing and storage546
- WalmartGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload404
- Ottawa SchoolsSchool district356FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters323
- Ottawa University-OttawaUniversity or college244
- Kalmar SolutionsIndustrial trucks and tractors manufacturing237
- Adventhealth OttawaGeneral hospital221FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,600 people in all across the county; Williamsburg has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- LightningVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- HailVery high
- TornadoesVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Williamsburg’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 Franklin County and the Ottawa, KS metro.
Williamsburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Williamsburg$298,755
- 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 Williamsburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Williamsburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.