Arnold, Nebraska.
Typical home $170,246 (+5.5% in a year). North Platte, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$415 (+87%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,822 +5%
- $161,424$170,246 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $16,016 +10%
- $154,230$170,246 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Arnold$894
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 35 years.
Typical home values in Arnold, NE rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Arnold, Custer County, Nebraska
Arnold is a village of 592 people in Custer County. Half its households earn more than $64,688 a year and half less, against $67,906 across Custer County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Custer County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Custer County work in schools and health care, then farming.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Arnold is a small village in Custer County, Nebraska, where most households own their homes and the population is on the younger side for a rural place. Incomes run a little below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer afternoons and the year's rain and melted snow arrive in moderate amounts.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in farming, manufacturing and shops. Across Custer County, some of the largest workplaces are Broken Bow Public Schools, the Jennie M. Melham Memorial Medical Center and Adams Land and Cattle. Unemployment in the county is low and has held steady from a year ago, and most people travel a fair way to work, though a small number work from home.
Things to do. Arnold is a quiet village, and the daily rhythm centers on home, school and the surrounding farm country. The seasons shape much of what people do outdoors, from snowy winter days to warm summer evenings.
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- 332households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Custer County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Custer County had 4,544 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 31 inches of snow and 24 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Arnold Wnw weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Custer County
- USA NE - Broken Bow Becton DickinsonHypodermic needles and syringes manufacturing594
- Broken BOW Public SchoolsSchool district116FTE
- Adams Land and CattleBeef cattle feedlots113
- Jennie M. Melham Memorial MED CenterCritical access hospital90FTE
- the grocery kartGrocery stores75
- Myers ConstructionUtility line, construction74
- Adams Land and CattleBeef cattle feedlots55
- Callaway District HospitalCritical access hospital50FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,054 people in all across the county; Arnold has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Arnold’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Custer County and the North Platte, NE metro.
Arnold home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Arnold$170,246
- Nebraska$278,299
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Arnold address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Arnold — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.