The story of this market
The typical home in Gove County, Kansas sells for about $135,000, or $85 per square foot.
Prices are up +2.4% from a year ago, so sellers still have some momentum. Homes take about 112 days to sell, which is slow. The biggest natural hazard here is hail, which FEMA rates very high. HUD's fair market rent for a two-bedroom is $961 a month.
HUD sets the fair market rent for a 2-bedroom at $961 a month. FEMA's National Risk Index rates overall hazard risk here as Relatively High.
Monthly price momentum
Home values since 2015
+4.2%
KS · past 12 months
Freddie Mac House Price Index, single-family homes, monthly through 2026-08. Each line starts at 100 in January 2015, so a reading of 180 means prices are up 80% since then.
Rent benchmark
Fair market rent by size
$1,258
3-bed / month
HUD Fair Market Rents, fiscal 2027, for this county. A typical rent for a modest unit, used to set housing-voucher payments.
Natural hazard exposure
The area's risk shape
89
Relatively High
FEMA National Risk Index. Each spoke is a hazard ranked nationally, where 100 is the most exposed. Expected annual loss: $4,224,812.
Mortgage activity
Home lending in this county
85.7%
2018 approval rate
| Year | Applications | Loans made | Approval | Investor share | Median home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 50 | 35 | 85.7% | 0% | $90,000 |
CFPB Home Mortgage Disclosure Act records: every mortgage application reported by lenders for homes in this county. Approval rate is approved ÷ decided (withdrawn and incomplete files excluded). Investor share and home value are the median census tract.
Gove County, Kansas
Gove County exhibits a stable, low-volume housing market characterized by limited inventory and modest price appreciation. The market is driven by local agricultural demand and a shrinking, aging population base. Transaction activity remains thin, reflecting the rural nature of the county.
No ARED distress-ledger coverage for this county yet — the foreclosure ingest rotates the national county directory, and filings appear here once the county's posted notices are read. Key-figure check: no independent anchor retained yet — first-researched cycles establish the anchor baseline this pass.
Select a city to expand its ZIP intel reports beneath · 3 cities · 4 ZIP reports
Median prices moved sideways 0.0% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 93 days on market with 0.0 months of supply — a slower-moving market.
0% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 0% of asking — demand is holding steady.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 3.6% · poverty 5.1% — a stable, low-distress profile.
Deterministic aggregate of 3 researched ZIP reports of 4 — sales_count-weighted (population fallback); per point, children lacking the value or its weight are excluded. Tax rates, sentiment and context notes are tier-native and never roll.
Gove County, Kansas — researched county-level history with a deterministic 1 / 3 / 5-year projection
Solid: researched ten-year history · dotted: 1 / 3 / 5-year projection extended from the historical 4.0%/yr trend — a deterministic estimate, not a published forecast or guarantee.
No researched properties in this county yet — the property base layer populates as property research runs, and each property feeds its ZIP's roll-up.
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| 67736 | Gove City | $53,300 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | $961 | researched Sep 28 |
| 67737 | Grainfield | — | $451 | — | 451 | — | — | — | 451 | $631 | researched Sep 28 |
| 67744 | Norcatur | $106,300 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | $961 | researched Sep 28 |
| 67752 | Quinter | — | $1,544 | — | — | — | — | — | 1,544 | $646 | researched Sep 28 |
Figures are each ZIP report's own latest research — the county roll-up aggregates them sales_count-weighted (population fallback); ZIPs cycle quarterly.
The local economy is primarily driven by agriculture and related services, with a small population base and limited industrial diversification.
Data retrieved from Census Bureau QuickFacts and Census Reporter profiles.
Requires a judicial process for the foreclosure and sale of real estate by the county when property taxes remain unpaid.
K.S.A. Chapter 79, Article 28
applies when — Property subject to a special assessment or fee pursuant to K.S.A. 12-6a01 et seq. or located in an improvement district
Seller must disclose the existence of the special assessment or fee to the buyer in writing prior to or as part of the sales contract and obtain written acknowledgment from the buyer.
K.S.A. 12-6a20
applies when — Property located within a designated reinvestment housing incentive district
Property may be subject to acquisition by the city or county for development purposes (excluding eminent domain) and specific relocation assistance requirements for tenants.
K.S.A. 12-5247
Annual tax bill calculated as: (Appraised Fair Market Value * 11.5% Assessment Rate) * (Mill Levy / 1,000). The mill levy is the combined tax rate set by local taxing jurisdictions.
Kansas Constitution Article 11, Section 1; K.S.A. 79-1439
Governance registry — every jurisdiction re-researches on a rolling 90-day cycle. Property reports compose these inherited burdens into a per-parcel ledger with conditional determinations. Informational only — not legal advice.