Benkelman, Nebraska.
Typical home $140,734 (-9.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$111 (+18%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $14,101 -9%
- $154,835$140,734 since Sep 2025
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.
- Benkelman$739
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Benkelman, NE fell 9.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Benkelman, Dundy County, Nebraska
Benkelman is a city of 821 people in Dundy County. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Dundy County was 2.0% in August 2026, and the county had 10.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dundy 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Benkelman is a small city in southwest Nebraska, the kind of place where neighbors tend to know one another. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold and snowy, with a January that stays well below freezing in the daytime, and summers turn hot by July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others in farming, shops or the building trades. Across Dundy County, the largest workplaces include Dundy County Hospital, the Dundy County Stratton public schools and Blackshirt Feeders. Commutes are very short, and the county has seen job numbers grow lately.
Things to do. The South Fork Republican River runs in or beside town, a natural spot for a walk along the water. A longer drive away are Howard T. Sawhill City Park and Enders Reservoir State Recreation Area, a protected area suited to a day out on the water.
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- 391households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 8 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Dundy County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dundy County had 650 jobs in 2025, 10.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 64°. About 28 inches of snow and 20 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Benkelman 1N weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dundy County
- Dundy County HospitalCritical access hospital75FTE
- Dundy CO Stratton Public SchsSchool district74FTE
- Blackshirt FeedersCattle feedlots49
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 49 people in all across the county; Benkelman has two 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Benkelman’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 Dundy County.
Benkelman home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Benkelman$140,734
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Benkelman14
Zip codes with a Benkelman address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Benkelman — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.