Bartley, Nebraska.
Typical home $169,573 (+1.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$471 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,958 +1%
- $167,615$169,573 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,317 +21%
- $140,257$169,573 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.
- Bartley$890
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Bartley, NE rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Bartley, Red Willow County, Nebraska
Bartley is a village of 270 people in Red Willow County. Unemployment in Red Willow County was 2.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Red Willow 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bartley is a village in Red Willow County, Nebraska, small enough that most people know one another. Homes here are typically priced well below what buyers pay in much of the country, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most places. Winters are cold, with January days staying just above freezing and nights dropping well below it. Summers turn hot by July, and snow comes through the colder months along with a moderate amount of rain across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in farming. Across Red Willow County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Community Hospital Association and Parker Hannifin. The county has lost a few jobs over the past year, and the typical trip to work is short.
Things to do. Red Willow Creek and Medicine Creek are both rivers a short drive away. Mowry Bluff Archeological Site, also a short drive off, is an archaeological site, and Medicine Creek State Recreation Area is a protected area close by as well. Frenchman Creek, another river, is a longer drive.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 14 mintypical commute
What people in Red Willow County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Red Willow County had 4,879 jobs in 2025, 1.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 63°. About 24 inches of snow and 23 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cambridge weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Red Willow County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters294
- Community Hospital AssocociationCritical access hospital260FTE
- Parker HannifinRubber and plastics hoses and belting manufacturing232
- MC Cook Public SchoolsSchool district199FTE
- Valmont Industries132
- Southwest Public SchoolsSchool district74FTE
- Kinship Pointe at McCookRest homes without nursing care47
- MC Cook SHFMail and parcel delivery41
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 824 people in all across the county; Bartley has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bartley’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Red Willow County.
Bartley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bartley$169,573
- 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 Bartley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bartley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.