Brady, Nebraska.
Typical home $346,067 (+9.6% in a year). North Platte, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,022 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $30,274 +10%
- $315,793$346,067 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $113,384 +49%
- $232,683$346,067 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.
- Brady$1,816
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Brady, NE rose 9.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brady, Lincoln County, Nebraska
Brady is a village of 383 people in Lincoln County. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Lincoln County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 3.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brady is a small Nebraska village in Lincoln County, and almost everyone who lives there owns their home. Poverty is less common here than in many places, and homes are worth more than you might expect for a village of this size. Winters are cold, with January highs hovering just above freezing, and summers turn properly hot by July. Rain and melted snow add up to a modest amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in transport, warehouses and utilities, in shops, or in other services. Few work from home. Across Lincoln County, Great Plains Health, Mid-Plains Community College and North Platte Public Schools are among the largest workplaces. Unemployment across the county is low and has held steady from a year ago, and the county has gained jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Fort McPherson is a fort a short drive away. Farther afield, the Platte River is a longer drive, as is the Robert Henri Museum, which suits a day out for art.
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- 6%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lincoln County had 15,243 jobs in 2025, 3.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 63°. About 22 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brady weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lincoln County
- Great Plains HealthGeneral hospital983FTE
- Mid-Plains Community CollegeTwo-year college686
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage671
- North Platte Public SchoolsSchool district541FTE
- Sustainable BeefBoxed beef produced in slaughtering plants515
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters385
- Linden CourtSkilled nursing facilities178
- North Platte TerminalTransportation motor freight transportation trucking except air167
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,456 people in all across the county; Brady has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Brady’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 Lincoln County and the North Platte, NE metro.
Brady home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brady$346,067
- 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.
- Brady8
Zip codes with a Brady address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brady — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.