A typical Rose Hill home is worth about $273,000
Up 0.8% in a year, 9% above the Kansas typical home. Homes typically sell in 12 days, close to asking.
What kind of housing town is Rose Hill?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A strong seller's market
Homes are selling faster than new ones are listed: less than two months of supply. Well-priced homes can draw several offers.
Under ~4 months of supply favors sellers; over ~6 favors buyers.
Redfin Data Center, all residential sales, May 2026.
Up 23.6% in five years
Slower than Kansas (30.3%).
Show as a table
| January | Rose Hill | Kansas |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $163,000 | $138,000 |
| 2018 | $173,000 | $144,000 |
| 2019 | $177,000 | $151,000 |
| 2020 | $187,000 | $160,000 |
| 2021 | $204,000 | $176,000 |
| 2022 | $232,000 | $198,000 |
| 2023 | $250,000 | $216,000 |
| 2024 | $254,000 | $225,000 |
| 2025 | $273,000 | $240,000 |
| 2026 | $276,000 | $246,000 |
| August 2026 | $273,000 | $250,000 |
A typical Rose Hill home worth $160K in September 2016 is worth about $273K today.
How Rose Hill ranks on rising home prices →
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
A typical home costs 2.7 years of income
Less than across Kansas (3.4 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Rose Hill home, with $87K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,300 a month here, $500 less than owning.
How Rose Hill ranks on affordability →
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Rose Hill’s typical property tax (1.63% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,300
Renters already here pay a median of $1,027, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Wichita, KS HUD Metro FMR Area): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
16 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 16 new homes in Rose Hill in 2025: 12 single-family houses and 4 in buildings with two or more homes, worth about $4.2 million to build. That's 3.8 per 1,000 residents, about the pace of Kansas as a whole. Over the past 10 years, Rose Hill has permitted 142 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Rose Hill gained 254 residents while 80 new homes were permitted: about 3.2 new residents per new home. Building and growth moved roughly in step. Across Kansas: 1.1 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 7 | 5 | 2 | $2 million |
| 2025 | 16 | 12 | 4 | $4.2 million |
| 2024 | 17 | 13 | 4 | $3.7 million |
| 2023 | 11 | 11 | 0 | $2.9 million |
| 2022 | 14 | 9 | 5 | $2.6 million |
| 2021 | 16 | 16 | 0 | $3.5 million |
| 2020 | 31 | 9 | 22 | $5.4 million |
| 2019 | 15 | 13 | 2 | $3.1 million |
| 2018 | 7 | 7 | 0 | $1.5 million |
| 2017 | 8 | 8 | 0 | $1.7 million |
| 2016 | 7 | 7 | 0 | $1.5 million |
| 2015 | 8 | 4 | 4 | $1.3 million |
| 2014 | 8 | 8 | 0 | $1.8 million |
| 2013 | 8 | 8 | 0 | $1.8 million |
| 2012 | 7 | 7 | 0 | $1.5 million |
| 2011 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $1.3 million |
| 2010 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $957,000 |
| 2009 | 7 | 7 | 0 | $1.1 million |
| 2008 | 18 | 18 | 0 | $3.5 million |
| 2007 | 29 | 29 | 0 | $4.5 million |
| 2006 | 19 | 19 | 0 | $3.4 million |
| 2005 | 12 | 12 | 0 | $2 million |
| 2004 | 21 | 21 | 0 | $3.1 million |
| 2003 | 55 | 33 | 22 | $4.8 million |
| 2002 | 34 | 26 | 8 | $4.1 million |
| 2001 | 45 | 45 | 0 | $4.1 million |
| 2000 | 41 | 41 | 0 | $5.9 million |
How Rose Hill ranks on new homes being built →
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
82% of Rose Hill households own their home
Half of Rose Hill’s homes were built before 1993.
Kansas: 67% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.
Rose Hill vs. its neighbors
Rose Hill is the priciest of 3 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.
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Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.
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What Rose Hill buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center, May 2026. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.