Avoca, Nebraska.
Typical home $257,730 (+7.8% in a year). Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$798 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,590 +8%
- $239,140$257,730 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $72,428 +39%
- $185,302$257,730 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.
- Avoca$1,353
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Avoca, NE rose 7.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Avoca, Cass County, Nebraska
Avoca is a village of 178 people in Cass County. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Cass County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cass County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Avoca is a very small Nebraska village in Cass County, the kind of place where neighbors tend to know one another. Nearly all of its homes are lived in by their owners, a much higher share of owner-occupiers than you'd find in most towns. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and typical home values sit well within reach of the county's incomes, which are comfortable for the area. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn properly warm by July, and precipitation through the year is moderate.
Work. Residents of Avoca work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, in banks, insurance and property, and in the building trades. Across Cass County, some of the largest workplaces are Plattsmouth Community Schools, Hy-Vee and Liquid Trucking. Unemployment in the county is low and has held steady from a year ago, and the county has added a small number of jobs over the past year. A modest number of residents work from home.
Things to do. The best known place nearby is the Strategic Air and Space Museum, a museum a longer drive away. For time outdoors, Platte River State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Lee G. Simmons Wildlife Safari Park is a zoo, also a longer drive away. Each makes a good day out rather than a quick errand.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 7%work from home
What people in Cass County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cass County had 6,206 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 33 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Weeping Water weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cass County
- Plattsmouth Community SchoolsSchool district225FTE
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores188
- Liquid TruckingBulk mail truck transportation, contract, long-distance119
- KZ ValveSprayers and dusters, farm-type, manufacturing117
- Conestoga Public SchoolsSchool district108FTE
- Louisville Public SchoolsSchool district104FTE
- Liquid TruckingBulk mail truck transportation, contract, long-distance97
- Kiewit Power Constructors CoPower plant construction86
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,022 people in all across the county; Avoca has none of its own. 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
- HailVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Avoca’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 Cass County and the Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
Avoca home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Avoca$257,730
- 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 Avoca address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Avoca — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.