Counties / Kansas / Clark County

Clark County, KS

FIPS 20025 · population 1,974 · outside every metro area

$87k
Zillow home value · 2026-06
The numbers

What this county costs and earns

Everything here joins on the county FIPS code, so each figure comes from the agency that publishes it with no name matching in between.

Zillow home value
$87k
▼ 4.9% year over year
Zillow ZHVI · direct
ACS median gross rent
$789
occupied-unit survey; not current asking rent
Census ACS · surveyed
Gross yield
n/a
gross yield cannot be computed without measured market rent
requires both measured price and measured rent
HUD 2-bed standard
$877
the Section 8 payment standard
HUD Fair Market Rent · direct
Independent price check

Do two methods point the same way?

Zillow estimates a current home value. FHFA tracks repeat mortgage transactions. Their growth rates should be read side by side, not averaged.

One annual series is unavailable
FHFA five-year cumulativen/anot annualized · through n/a
0%ZILLOW ZHVI2026-06−4.9%FHFA HPIperiod n/an/a
Annual changes use different methods and may use different periods. The comparison checks direction and magnitude; it does not create a blended estimate. Zillow county ZHVI pulled 2026-07-26; FHFA annual county HPI pulled 2026-07-28.
Owner-reported value$88k
Surveyed gross rent$789
Rent burden 30%+30.0%
Median year built1946
Housing composition

Who occupies the stock—and what it is

ACS 2024 5-year
24.2%vacant
1,039estimated housing units
Occupied tenure26.4% renter
owner 73.6%renter 26.4%
Structure mix93.5% single-family
Single-family 93.5%20+ units 0.3%Mobile home 2.1%Other 4.1%
ACS estimates describe the standing housing stock and occupied tenure. They do not measure current listings, transaction prices or asking rents.

Survey source: Census ACS 5-year — county housing value, tenure and stock · ACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30. These values describe different housing universes and are not combined into gross yield.

Annual average covered jobs845▲ 0.2% from the prior annual release
Covered establishments87annual average reporting locations
Average weekly wage$967▼ 2.7% from the prior annual release
Largest private supersectorNatural resources and mining28.2% of disclosed private covered jobs
Local labor base

Jobs, pay and private-sector concentration

2025
0%COVERED JOBS+0.2%WEEKLY WAGE−2.7%Natural resources and mining28.2%
Annual QCEW counts cover jobs located at reporting establishments. The industry share uses disclosed private covered employment; it is not a resident-employment measure or a forecast.

Workplace source: BLS QCEW — county employment and wages · annual county employment and wages 2025 vs 2024 · pulled 2026-07-31. QCEW counts covered jobs located in the county, not employed residents or the metro score’s CES/LAUS series.

County brief

What the local evidence says

01Decision frame

Clark County’s decision tension is a low nominal entry value alongside a falling Zillow county value measure and no published market rent. The Zillow county observation labeled 2026-06 puts median home value at $87,293, down 4.92% year over year. That is a value signal, not a transaction price, and it is paired with no published market rent. Cash-flow underwriters and wildfire-sensitive buyers should be cautious; investigators need property-level rents, insurance, and condition before treating the low entry value as usable economics.

02Housing economics

Housing economics cannot yet be underwritten from the record. HUD’s two-bedroom FMR is $877 monthly payment standard, not market asking rent; therefore gross yield cannot be computed or inferred. The effective property-tax rate is 1.94%, and median annual tax is $1,699, a material carrying-cost input beside the county value measure, but neither county median establishes a parcel bill. No FHFA annual repeat-transaction HPI observation is published to confirm or contest Zillow’s direction.

03Demand & competition

Demand evidence is narrow rather than absent. In 2025 QCEW workplace data, covered employment rose and average weekly covered-worker wage fell; this is not resident employment or unemployment, and Natural resources and mining was the largest disclosed private supersector, at 28.24% of private covered jobs. Tax-return migration was net positive and movers in reported higher average income than movers out, but these counts do not establish renter demand. Investors made one of 11 purchase mortgages (9.09%), limited buyer-competition evidence rather than a measure of all sales. The record contains no Realtor.com MLS listing-price, active-listing, days-on-market, or price-reduction figure despite the 2026-06 inventory label, so visible supply, marketing time, and seller concessions cannot be assessed.

04Risk & next checks

Wildfire is the stated dominant hazard, and modeled expected annual climate loss is 0.22% of building value; this model is neither a parcel-level insurance quote nor a dollar-loss estimate. The combination of falling Zillow value, unmeasured rent, carrying taxes, and hazard exposure means the record cannot support a cash-flow or resale conclusion. Obtain lease comparables, insurance premiums and exclusions, parcel hazard and mitigation information, and closed-sale comparables. Those checks determine operating income, insurability, and executable exit pricing, none of which county-level evidence establishes.

Cities & communities

Where people live within Clark County

Census-recognized incorporated places and CDPs that intersect this county. The list does not pretend to include every neighborhood or informal community.

Population scale

Largest Census places

ACS 2024 5-year
Minneola city835Ashland city738Englewood city51
Bars use total place population, not a county-share estimate. An asterisk marks a place that crosses a county line.
Official directory

3 Census places

Population
  1. 01
    Minneola cityIncorporated place
    835
  2. 02
    Ashland cityIncorporated place
    738
  3. 03
    Englewood cityIncorporated place
    51

Population is the total place-wide ACS estimate, not an allocated county share. A place crossing a county line is labelled explicitly. Source: Census ACS 5-year — cities and communities · ACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30.

Risk, demand and competition

The three things a price does not tell you

01
Risk & carrying costFEMA NRI + Census ACS
Dominant hazardwildfire

0.224% of building value expected lost per year

Effective property tax1.94%

$1,699 median annual bill

02
DemandIRS SOI household flows
Net migration+4

42 in · 38 out

Arriving vs leaving income+$4,146

$47,357 arriving · $43,211 leaving

03
CompetitionHMDA financed purchases
Purchases by investors9.1%

1 of 11 mortgages

investorother financed
No rent index is published for this county.Zillow’s county rent series does not cover every county, and estimating one from a neighbouring county would be a guess wearing a number’s clothes. Everything above is measured here; no wider market is mapped for it either.
Bear case

What can break the county thesis

  1. Target-property rents and taxes could differ materially from county-level measures.
  2. Migration and investor mortgage measures do not identify tenant demand or all buyer activity.
  3. County modeled wildfire loss may not capture parcel-level insurability or mitigation cost.
Underwriting questions

Before pricing a property

Can gross yield be calculated from this record?

No. Market rent is not published, and HUD FMR cannot be substituted for asking rent.

Do the Realtor.com data show current visible supply or marketing time?

No. The record publishes no active-listing, days-on-market, or price-reduction figures.

Does the record provide a FHFA confirmation of Zillow's price direction?

No. No FHFA annual repeat-transaction HPI observation is published.