Counties / Kansas / Harvey County

Harvey County, KS

FIPS 20079 · population 33,756 · part of Wichita, KS

$198k
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
$198k
▲ 5.4% year over year
Zillow ZHVI · direct
Median asking rent
$1,105
▲ 14.1% year over year
Zillow ZORI · direct
Gross yield
6.7%
annual rent ÷ price, before costs
derived: rent × 12 ÷ price ✓
HUD 2-bed standard
$1,099
market rent is 1.00x the 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.

Both annual signals move in the same direction
FHFA five-year cumulative+52.9%not annualized · through 2025
0%ZILLOW ZHVI2026-06+5.4%FHFA HPI2025+6.9%
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$180k
Surveyed gross rent$900
Rent burden 30%+37.7%
Median year built1970
Housing composition

Who occupies the stock—and what it is

ACS 2024 5-year
6.5%vacant
14,656estimated housing units
Occupied tenure30.1% renter
owner 69.8%renter 30.1%
Structure mix84.2% single-family
Single-family 84.2%20+ units 4.1%Mobile home 2.5%Other 9.2%
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 jobs14,098▼ 0.2% from the prior annual release
Covered establishments833annual average reporting locations
Average weekly wage$934▲ 1.3% from the prior annual release
Largest private supersectorEducation and health services33.8% of disclosed private covered jobs
Local labor base

Jobs, pay and private-sector concentration

2025
0%COVERED JOBS−0.2%WEEKLY WAGE+1.3%Education and health services33.8%
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

Harvey County presents an income-versus-exit tension: market rent supports a preliminary income screen, but observed listing concessions and mobility merit restraint in resale assumptions. Zillow’s county 2026-06 median home value was $197,605, up 5.43% year over year; its median asking rent was $1,105 per month. The record supplies a 6.71% gross yield before costs. This county merits investigation for income-led underwriting, while a case centered on appreciation or quick resale should be cautious.

02Housing economics

That yield uses measured market rent, not rent inferred from HUD. The effective property-tax rate is 1.51%, a carrying-cost input requiring parcel verification. HUD’s two-bedroom FMR of $1,099 is a payment standard, not an asking-rent estimate, and cannot replace market rent in yield work. FHFA’s 2025 annual repeat-transaction HPI increased 6.90%; it agrees with Zillow’s positive direction but is neither a home value nor the same observation period or method, so the measures should not be averaged.

03Demand & competition

Realtor.com’s 2026-06 MLS listing-market evidence shows median asking price down 6.64% annually and 21.84% of listings with reductions. These identify visible supply and seller concessions, not closed-sale prices or buyer demand by themselves. Net migration was negative 108 tax-return households, while movers entering reported average income $28 lower than movers leaving. Nonoccupants represented 9.66% of purchase mortgages, calling for property-level buyer-mix checks rather than an assumption of investor control. QCEW covered employment at county workplaces edged down; education and health services is the largest disclosed private supersector, not a description of the whole economy.

04Risk & next checks

Inland flood is the dominant hazard, and the modeled annual climate-loss ratio is 0.14% of building value. That is a county-level model, not a parcel loss estimate or insurance quote. Vacancy, turnover, collections, operating and flood-insurance terms, property condition, and closed comparable sales are not published. Their absence prevents a net cash-flow conclusion, a parcel-specific flood-cost conclusion, and a supported resale-value conclusion.

Cities & communities

Where people live within Harvey 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
Newton city18.4KHesston city3.6KHalstead city2.5KNorth Newton city2.2KSedgwick city*1.6KBurrton city808Walton city223
Bars use total place population, not a county-share estimate. An asterisk marks a place that crosses a county line.
Official directory

7 Census places

Population
  1. 01
    Newton cityIncorporated place
    18,397
  2. 02
    Hesston cityIncorporated place
    3,582
  3. 03
    Halstead cityIncorporated place
    2,516
  4. 04
    North Newton cityIncorporated place
    2,155
  5. 05
    Sedgwick cityIncorporated place · spans 2 counties
    1,614
  6. 06
    Burrton cityIncorporated place
    808
  7. 07
    Walton cityIncorporated place
    223

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 hazardinland flooding

0.141% of building value expected lost per year

Effective property tax1.51%

$2,715 median annual bill

02
DemandIRS SOI household flows
Net migration-108

918 in · 1,026 out

Arriving vs leaving income−$28

$51,063 arriving · $51,091 leaving

03
CompetitionHMDA financed purchases
Purchases by investors9.7%

40 of 414 mortgages

investorother financed
Current listing pressure

What sellers and visible supply are doing

Realtor.com® Economic Research · county inventory 2026-06 · pulled 2026-07-28
Active listings76▼ 1.9% year over year
Median days on market43▼ 18.4% year over year
Listings price-reduced21.8%seller-concession signal
Median listing pricen/a▼ 6.6% year over year

Listing price is an asking price, not a closed sale. Quality-flagged county rows are withheld instead of displayed.

Same metro

The other counties in Wichita, KS

A metro is an average of these. Which side of a county line a property sits on can change the tax bill, the hazard profile and the tenant pool.

CountyPopulationPriceRentYieldHazard
Harvey County33,756$198k$1,1056.7%inland flooding
Sedgwick County528,226$229k$1,2046.3%inland flooding
Butler County68,287$253k$1,3746.5%inland flooding
Sumner County22,353$153kn/an/ainland flooding
Bear case

What can break the county thesis

  1. Unpublished vacancy, collections, insurance, and capital costs could erase the pre-cost yield.
  2. Parcel flood exposure and insurance terms could differ materially from the county climate-loss model.
  3. County listing concessions and migration patterns may not describe a specific submarket or property’s buyer and tenant pool.
Underwriting questions

Before pricing a property

Is the published gross yield based on HUD FMR?

No. It is based on published market asking rent; HUD FMR is a payment standard.

Do the Realtor.com figures establish closed-sale pricing or buyer demand?

No. They are MLS listing-market measures of asking prices, visible supply, marketing time, and seller concessions.

Does QCEW measure employment of county residents?

No. It measures annual covered jobs located at workplaces in the county.