Counties / Kansas / Comanche County

Comanche County, KS

FIPS 20033 · population 1,729 · outside every metro area

$93k
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
$93k
▼ 5.2% year over year
Zillow ZHVI · direct
ACS median gross rent
$692
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 ZHVI2026-06−5.2%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$70k
Surveyed gross rent$692
Rent burden 30%+41.4%
Median year built1947
Housing composition

Who occupies the stock—and what it is

ACS 2024 5-year
18.9%vacant
1,016estimated housing units
Occupied tenure26.6% renter
owner 73.4%renter 26.6%
Structure mix89.4% single-family
Single-family 89.4%20+ units 0.5%Mobile home 3.9%Other 6.2%
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 jobs656▲ 5.5% from the prior annual release
Covered establishments90annual average reporting locations
Average weekly wage$792▼ 0.4% from the prior annual release
Largest private supersectorTrade, transportation, and utilities23.3% of disclosed private covered jobs
Local labor base

Jobs, pay and private-sector concentration

2025
0%COVERED JOBS+5.5%WEEKLY WAGE−0.4%Trade, transportation, and utilities23.3%
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

Comanche County presents a decision tension: Zillow’s $93,181 county median home value in 2026-06 had fallen 5.22% year over year, yet market rent and MLS balance evidence are absent. Investors able to validate individual leases, insurance and exit liquidity should investigate; those requiring published rent, deep comparable sales or a broad tenant pool should be cautious. The value measure is not a transaction price, and no FHFA annual repeat-transaction HPI observation is supplied to corroborate or challenge its direction.

02Housing economics

The Zillow value is the only supplied market-price datapoint. No median asking market rent is published, so gross yield cannot be computed. HUD’s $877 two-bedroom Fair Market Rent is a payment standard, not evidence of achievable asking rent, and must not be substituted in yield work. Carrying costs warrant attention: the effective property-tax rate is 2.16%, and the median annual tax is $1,500. Those county aggregates do not establish the tax bill, assessment or rent coverage for a specific property.

03Demand & competition

Workplace data are constructive but narrow. QCEW reports 656 annual average covered jobs at county workplaces in 2025, up 5.47% from its prior annual average, while covered-worker average weekly wage fell 0.38%. Trade, transportation, and utilities represents 23.26% of disclosed private covered employment, indicating concentration rather than a reading on the whole county economy. Tax-return migration was net negative by four households, although incoming movers’ average income exceeded outgoing movers’ by $12,343. Non-occupant purchase mortgages represented 20% of the five purchases; that small base signals participation but cannot define buyer competition.

04Risk & next checks

Wildfire is the dominant hazard; the modeled annual climate loss ratio is 0.45% of building value, not a property-specific loss estimate. Missing Realtor.com MLS listing figures—median asking price, active listings, days on market and price-reduced share—prevent a test of visible supply, marketing time or seller concessions; they would not show closed-sale demand. Missing lease comps and vacancy evidence prevent cash-flow and tenant-depth underwriting, while absent FHFA data prevent an independent repeat-transaction check on Zillow’s direction. Next checks are parcel tax records, insurance and wildfire-mitigation terms, property condition, leases and recent closed-sale comparables.

Cities & communities

Where people live within Comanche 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
Coldwater city784Protection city492Wilmore city24
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
    Coldwater cityIncorporated place
    784
  2. 02
    Protection cityIncorporated place
    492
  3. 03
    Wilmore cityIncorporated place
    24

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

0.455% of building value expected lost per year

Effective property tax2.15%

$1,500 median annual bill

02
DemandIRS SOI household flows
Net migration-4

23 in · 27 out

Arriving vs leaving income+$12,343

$37,565 arriving · $25,222 leaving

03
CompetitionHMDA financed purchases
Purchases by investors20.0%

1 of 5 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. Unpublished market-rent, lease and vacancy evidence could reveal inadequate property-level cash flow.
  2. Wildfire exposure and insurance or mitigation terms could exceed the county-level climate-loss model.
  3. The small purchase base and net out-migration could make buyer competition and exit liquidity weaker than county aggregates suggest.
Underwriting questions

Before pricing a property

Can this record support a gross-yield calculation?

No. A measured market rent is not published, and HUD Fair Market Rent cannot substitute for market rent.

What does the employment evidence measure?

QCEW measures annual covered employment at workplaces in the county, not resident employment or unemployment.

What listing-market evidence is unavailable?

The supplied record does not publish Realtor.com MLS listing price, active listings, days on market or price-reduction share.