Wright, Kansas.
Typical home $252,084 (-0.9% in a year). Dodge City, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$776 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,344 -1%
- $254,428$252,084 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,841 +35%
- $186,243$252,084 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.
- Wright$1,323
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Wright, KS fell 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wright, Ford County, Kansas
Wright, in Ford County, had 145 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $31,058 a year and half less, against $70,781 across Ford County. Unemployment in Ford County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ford County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wright is a very small community in Ford County, Kansas, where the people who live here tend to be older than in most places and incomes sit well below the county's. Homes here are worth a good deal more than local incomes might suggest. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers turn hot.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants and hotels. Across Ford County, some of the largest workplaces are Cargill Protein Dodge City, Dodge City Schools and Dodge City Community College. Unemployment in the county is low and has barely changed over the past year, and the number of jobs there has edged up.
Things to do. A short drive away are Fort Dodge, an old fort, and Boot Hill Museum, a museum, along with the Long Branch Variety Show, a theatre. A longer drive brings you to Fort Atkinson, another of the old forts. Clark County State Lake, a reservoir, is also a longer drive away.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
What people in Ford County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ford County had 18,345 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 66°. About 19 inches of snow and 22 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dodge City weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ford County
- Cargill Protein Dodge CityBeef produced in slaughtering plants2,757
- Dodge City SchoolsSchool district907FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters354
- Fortrex - 0410 National Beef Packing Company LLC - Dodge CityJanitorial services288
- Dodge City Community CollegeTwo-year college286
- Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc. - Dodge CityCurds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, manufacturing237
- BhcmcCasinos235
- QSIJanitorial services176
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,940 people in all across the county; Wright has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- HailVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wright’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 Ford County and the Dodge City, KS metro.
Wright home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wright$252,084
- 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 Wright address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wright — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.