A typical WaKeeney home is worth about $139,000
Down 3.5% in a year, 44% below the Kansas typical home.
What WaKeeney’s housing numbers say
Homes cost about two years of income
A typical WaKeeney home costs 2 years of the median household income, against 3.4 years across Kansas. At WaKeeney’s median household income of $68,000, the calculator below reaches about $239K, enough for the typical home. Can I afford it? ↓
Slipping while Kansas rises
Over the past year the typical WaKeeney home lost 3.5%, while the Kansas typical home gained 3.8%. Price trend ↓
Values have lagged Kansas
The typical WaKeeney home is up 14% in five years, against a gain of 30% across Kansas. Over the ten years on the chart it’s up 77%, against 84% statewide. Price trend ↓
Written from the data on this page. Home values are the Zillow Home Value Index, through August 2026; permits are Census figures through 2025; incomes, rents paid, taxes and ownership come from the Census American Community Survey.
Up 14.4% in five years
Slower than Kansas (30.3%).
Show as a table
| January | WaKeeney | Kansas |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $80,000 | $138,000 |
| 2018 | $80,000 | $144,000 |
| 2019 | $81,000 | $151,000 |
| 2020 | $93,000 | $160,000 |
| 2021 | $109,000 | $176,000 |
| 2022 | $130,000 | $198,000 |
| 2023 | $138,000 | $216,000 |
| 2024 | $129,000 | $225,000 |
| 2025 | $137,000 | $240,000 |
| 2026 | $143,000 | $246,000 |
| August 2026 | $139,000 | $250,000 |
A typical WaKeeney home worth $79K in September 2016 is worth about $139K today.
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
A typical home costs 2 years of income
Less than across Kansas (3.4 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical WaKeeney home, with $100K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $890 a month here, $30 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, WaKeeney’s typical property tax (1.66% 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 $890
Renters already here pay a median of $756, 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 (Graham County, KS): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
2 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 2 new homes in WaKeeney in 2025, all single-family houses. That's 1.1 per 1,000 residents, slower than across Kansas (3.7). Over the past 10 years, WaKeeney has permitted 5 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, WaKeeney's population fell by 63 even though 5 new homes were permitted. Homes are holding fewer people: households are getting smaller, or more homes are used part of the year. 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) | 3 | 3 | 0 | $693,000 |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $462,000 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $150,000 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $325,000 |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $400,000 |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2010 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $385,000 |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $75,000 |
| 2004 | 24 | 0 | 24 | $1.8 million |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $180,000 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
One of WaKeeney’s houses is on the National Register
Half of WaKeeney’s homes were built before 1963.
Kansas: 67% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places.
Neighbors talk housing
What WaKeeney buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. 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. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.