Yates Center, Kansas.
Typical home $124,157 (+2.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$374 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,504 +3%
- $120,654$124,157 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,083 +29%
- $96,074$124,157 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.
- Yates Center$652
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Yates Center, KS rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Yates Center, Woodson County, Kansas
Yates Center is a city of 1,352 people in Woodson County. Half its households earn more than $42,730 a year and half less, against $50,326 across Woodson County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Woodson County was 6.0% in August 2026, and the county had 3.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Yates Center is a small city in Woodson County, Kansas, and its residents are older than in most of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a typical home costs less than in much of the nation. Incomes in town run below the county's, and winters are cold while summers turn hot, with a modest amount of snow and a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others in manufacturing, the building trades and other services. Across Woodson County, the largest workplaces are Woodson Schools and SEK Coop INC. Yates Center, a grain wholesaler. Most people have a short drive to work, and very few work from home.
Things to do. Fort Belmont is a fort a short drive away. Farther afield, Toronto Lake is a reservoir and Cross Timbers State Park is a protected area, both a longer drive away.
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- 559households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Woodson County had 663 jobs in 2025, 3.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 9 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Yates Ctr weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Woodson County
- Woodson SchoolsSchool district57FTE
- SEK Coop Inc. Yates CenterGrain elevators merchant wholesalers grain35
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 35 people in all across the county; Yates Center has one 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Yates Center’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Woodson County.
Yates Center home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Yates Center$124,157
- 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.
- Yates Center4
Zip codes with a Yates Center address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Yates Center — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Yates Center
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 66783 | Yates Center | 2,190 | — | $116,343 |
| 66717 | Buffalo | 467 | — | $90,810 |