Wilsey, Kansas.
Typical home $124,666 (+1.8% in a year). Emporia, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$357 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,189 +2%
- $122,476$124,666 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $22,222 +22%
- $102,443$124,666 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.
- Wilsey$654
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Wilsey, KS rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wilsey, Morris County, Kansas
Wilsey is a city of 139 people in Morris County. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% are rented. Unemployment in Morris County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Morris 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wilsey is a very small Kansas city in Morris County, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and the typical home is worth less than in much of the country. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and well below it at night, and summers turn hot by July. A modest amount of snow falls each year, and the town gets a fair share of rain across the seasons.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, transport and warehousing, and professional and business services also employing many. Across Morris County, the largest workplaces include Morris County Schools, Morris County Hospital and U.S. Stone Industries. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than it was a year earlier, while the number of jobs has grown slightly.
Things to do. Fourmile Creek runs in or beside town, and Council Grove Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away. Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, a protected area, is a longer drive away for a day out on open prairie.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
What people in Morris County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Morris County had 1,588 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 12 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Council Grove Lake weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Morris County
- Morris County SchoolsSchool district140FTE
- Morris County HospitalCritical access hospital123FTE
- U.S. Stone IndustriesDimension stone dressing and manufacturing111
- AlkegenRefractories, nonclay, manufacturing76
- Diversicare of Council GroveNursing homes55
- Rural Vista SchoolsSchool district55FTE
- Schwartz Farms-Flint Hills39
- Hodgdon Powder CompanyGunpowder manufacturing35
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 342 people in all across the county; Wilsey 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
- HailVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Heat wavesVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wilsey’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 Morris County and the Emporia, KS metro.
Wilsey home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wilsey$124,666
- 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 Wilsey address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wilsey — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Wilsey
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 66869 | Strong City | 669 | — | $107,367 |
| 66873 | Wilsey | 201 | — | $119,034 |