Bee, Nebraska.
Typical home $296,378 (+8.1% in a year). Lincoln, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$876 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,101 +8%
- $274,277$296,378 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $72,317 +32%
- $224,061$296,378 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.
- Bee$1,556
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Bee, NE rose 8.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bee, Seward County, Nebraska
Bee is a village of 171 people in Seward County. Half its households earn more than $99,688 a year and half less, against $82,444 across Seward County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Seward County was 2.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Seward County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bee is a very small village in Seward County, Nebraska, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run higher than across the county, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while summers turn properly warm by July, and precipitation is moderate through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and shops also employing many. Across Seward County, some of the largest workplaces are Concordia University-Nebraska, Seward Public Schools and Memorial Health Care Systems. Commutes are fairly typical in length, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. For a day out, Lake Wanahoo is a lake and Conestoga Lake is a reservoir, both a longer drive away. The Lincoln Children's Zoo and the Sheldon Museum of Art are also a longer drive away, one a zoo and the other a museum. Surprise Opera House, a theatre, is another trip that takes a longer drive.
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- 21%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Seward County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Seward County had 6,002 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 22 inches of snow and 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Seward weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Seward County
- Concordia University-NebraskaUniversity or college442
- TennecoExhaust systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing333
- Hughes BrothersStructural wood members, fabricated, manufacturing295
- Seward Public SchoolsSchool district209FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters199
- Memorial Health Care SystemsCritical access hospital159FTE
- Milford Public SchoolsSchool district127FTE
- Vetter Senior LivingSkilled nursing facilities125
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,400 people in all across the county; Bee has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bee’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 Seward County and the Lincoln, NE metro.
Bee home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bee$296,378
- 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 Bee address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bee — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.