Topeka housing market: home prices, trends and forecast
Topeka home prices: the Zillow Home Value Index valued a typical home in Topeka, Kansas at $195,299 in September 2026. This was down 0.4% from a year earlier and the highest recorded monthly value.
- Typical value of a home
- $195,299September 2026, Zillow ZHVI
- Change over 12 months
- 0.4% down. Measured against September 2025.
Topeka home prices since 2000
Topeka appears as a steel line, while the United States appears as a grey line. Since January 2000, the typical Topeka home rose from $81,223 to $195,299, or ×2.40, compared with ×2.99 for the US during those same months. The boom reached its high in June 2008 at $111,934 before falling to a low of $103,482 in November 2012, a change of −7.6%.
Topeka median home price by year
A yearly figure comes from averaging the twelve monthly values, and for 2026 the latest month is used.
| Year | Topeka | Change on the year | United States |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | $82,076 | $125,745 | |
| 2001 | $86,084 | +4.9% | $134,899 |
| 2002 | $89,493 | +4.0% | $144,276 |
| 2003 | $92,603 | +3.5% | $155,308 |
| 2004 | $96,683 | +4.4% | $169,891 |
| 2005 | $101,804 | +5.3% | $189,732 |
| 2006 | $105,498 | +3.6% | $206,531 |
| 2007 | $109,364 | +3.7% | $208,449 |
| 2008 | $111,347 | +1.8% | $195,574 |
| 2009 | $109,791 | −1.4% | $177,542 |
| 2010 | $109,135 | −0.6% | $171,462 |
| 2011 | $104,830 | −3.9% | $162,508 |
| 2012 | $103,911 | −0.9% | $161,137 |
| 2013 | $104,352 | +0.4% | $171,420 |
| 2014 | $105,141 | +0.8% | $182,996 |
| 2015 | $105,487 | +0.3% | $192,738 |
| 2016 | $106,154 | +0.6% | $204,509 |
| 2017 | $109,254 | +2.9% | $216,767 |
| 2018 | $114,644 | +4.9% | $230,541 |
| 2019 | $120,551 | +5.2% | $242,088 |
| 2020 | $128,642 | +6.7% | $257,151 |
| 2021 | $144,381 | +12.2% | $295,959 |
| 2022 | $162,854 | +12.8% | $340,014 |
| 2023 | $175,847 | +8.0% | $348,160 |
| 2024 | $187,384 | +6.6% | $359,751 |
| 2025 | $194,615 | +3.9% | $362,959 |
| September 2026 | $195,299 | −0.4% | $366,157 |
What a home bought in Topeka during any year is worth today
An appraisal is not what this gives; it gives an index-based estimate for a typical home.
Each year's figure comes from averaging its twelve monthly index values, and the current value is September 2026. Other options: home appreciation calculator.
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Topeka housing market forecast
For the Topeka, KS metro, Zillow's forecast is +3.5% across 12 months beginning September 2026. The next three months have a separate estimate of +1.5%. At that rate, Topeka's typical value of $195,299 would be near $202,100 one year later.
This page restates Zillow's central estimate for the metro, while the site itself offers no forecast. A 12-month forecast of this kind is typically off by several percentage points from the realised change, in both directions. This is not investment advice.
Every metro forecast appears together in one table: housing forecasts.
Topeka housing market crash risk score
Moderate, 30 of 100
Topeka is ranked against the 292 cities using five conditions that were high before earlier price falls. Each input is set against the other cities on a scale from 0 to 100, then the five results are averaged with equal weight. It describes current conditions; it does not predict a crash.
| Input | Value | Sub-score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Active listings vs 2019 | −12.4% | 26 | 20% |
| Days on the market vs 2019 | −2.5% | 31 | 20% |
| Price-to-rent ratio | 13.0 | 11 | 20% |
| Price-to-income ratio | 3.2 | 10 | 20% |
| 12-month price change | −0.4% | 70 | 20% |
This is not investment advice. Scoring of the inputs: methodology. Every one of the 292 cities ranked: crash risk by city.
Homes for sale and days on market in Topeka
During September 2026 the Topeka, KS metro counted 438 homes for sale. The year-over-year change was +15.0%, while the change from the same month of 2019 was −12.4%. Selling took a median of 39 days per listing (−2.5% against 2019), and price cuts appeared on 21.3% of listings.
| Topeka, KS metro, September 2026 | Value | On a year |
|---|---|---|
| Active listings | 438 | +15.0% |
| New listings | 266 | |
| Median days on market | 39 | −0.7% |
| Median list price | $256,200 | −1.8% |
| Share with a price cut | 21.3% |
Realtor.com® Economic Research, metro inventory. Data from Realtor.com. All metros: days on market by city.
Living costs and rent in Topeka
The Zillow Observed Rent Index puts Topeka's typical asking rent at $1,249 a month, with a yearly change of +4.3% A typical home equals 13.0 years of that rent. A typical home equals 3.2 times a year's income, given median household income of $61,030 (Census ACS 2024). BEA gives the metro a price index of 88.8 compared with a US average of 100, and a housing cost index of 65.0
Other housing markets in Kansas
- Wichita market $204,831.
- Lawrence market $332,513.
See the full state: Kansas housing market.
How to read the chart
For Topeka, each point represents the Zillow Home Value Index for Topeka: the dollar value for that month of a typical home in the market's middle third, smoothed and seasonally adjusted. The hollow dot identifies the selected month on the slider, while the terracotta dot marks the latest month No inflation adjustment applies to these figures. An index describes the typical home, not a given house. For a single house, take its own sale price and use the sale-price card or the appreciation calculator.