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The median home value in Abilene, KS is $186,404 as of 2026-07-31, up 3.91% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$186,404
Year-over-Year
+3.91%
Population
6,440
Abilene ranks #33 of 52 Kansas cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 20.2% below the state's city median of $233,732. It sits in Dickinson County, where the county-wide median is $171,196.
Median household income in Abilene is $57,924, so the typical home value is about 3.2× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
Abilene police recorded a violent crime rate of 264 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,273 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Abilene, that value is $186,404. That's up 3.91% from a year earlier. It is about 20.2% below the typical Kansas city tracked here.
Homes in Abilene are more expensive than Dickinson County as a whole, where the median is $171,196 — a difference of about 8.9%.
Median household income here is $57,924, so the typical home value is about 3.2× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Abilene police reported 264 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 6,440. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.