Auburn, Nebraska.
Typical home $171,452 (+3.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$493 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,771 +3%
- $165,681$171,452 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,235 +31%
- $131,217$171,452 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.
- Auburn$900
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Auburn, NE rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Auburn, Nemaha County, Nebraska
Auburn is a city of 3,470 people in Nemaha County. Half its households earn more than $57,531 a year and half less, against $60,924 across Nemaha County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 50% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 50% are rented. Unemployment in Nemaha County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Auburn is a small city in Nemaha County, Nebraska, with a median age close to that of the country as a whole. Incomes run a little below the county's, and homes are split about evenly between those lived in by their owners and those rented. Winters are cold and snowy, summers turn properly warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and other services close behind. Among the largest workplaces in town are Auburn Public Schools, FAST Global Solutions and SpartanNash. Jobs across Nemaha County dipped a little last year, and unemployment there has stayed steady.
Things to do. The New Opera House is a theatre in or beside town. A short drive away, Governor Furnas Arboretum is a botanical garden for a quiet walk among the trees. Indian Cave State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away, and it suits a day spent outdoors.
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- 1,583households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Nemaha County had 2,905 jobs in 2025, 2.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 67°. About 30 inches of snow and 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Auburn Ese weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Auburn
- Auburn Public SchoolsSchool district144FTE
- FAST Global SolutionsIndustrial truck, tractor, trailer, and stacker machinery manufacturing85
- SpartanNashSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores35
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 148 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Auburn’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 Nemaha County.
Auburn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Auburn$171,452
- Nebraska$278,299
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Auburn listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Auburn24.89%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Auburn20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Auburn8
Zip codes with a Auburn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Auburn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.