Bladen, Nebraska.
Typical home $152,174 (+6.0% in a year). Hastings, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$400 (+100%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $8,566 +6%
- $143,608$152,174 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,842 +23%
- $123,332$152,174 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.
- Bladen$799
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Bladen, NE rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bladen, Webster County, Nebraska
Bladen is a village of 205 people in Webster County. Half its households earn more than $66,875 a year and half less, against $64,347 across Webster County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% are rented. Unemployment in Webster County was 2.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Webster 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bladen is a small village in Webster County, Nebraska, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Incomes run a little above the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and snow falls through the season; summers turn hot, with July the warmest month, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with farming, shops and manufacturing also common. Across Webster County, some of the largest workplaces are Blue Hill Community Schools, Webster County Community Hospital and Green Cover - Bladen, a seeds wholesaler. Unemployment in the county is low and has barely changed over the past year, and the county has added a few more jobs. Few people in town work from home.
Things to do. The IOOF Hall and Opera House, a theatre, is in or beside town. Rabbit Run Creek, a river, is a short drive away. For a longer outing, Pioneer Village, a museum, is a longer drive away.
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- 73households
- 2%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What people in Webster County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Webster County had 1,066 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 64°. About 19 inches of snow and 25 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Red Cloud weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Webster County
- Blue Hill Community SchoolsSchool district56FTE
- Red Cloud Community SchoolsSchool district47FTE
- Green Cover - BladenSeeds merchant wholesalers30
- Webster County Community HospitalCritical access hospital29FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 30 people in all across the county; Bladen has none of its own. School districts come 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
- LightningVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bladen’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 Webster County and the Hastings, NE metro.
Bladen home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bladen$152,174
- 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 Bladen address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bladen — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.