Bridgeport, Nebraska.
Typical home $150,541 (+4.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$424 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,351 +4%
- $144,190$150,541 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,098 +23%
- $122,443$150,541 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.
- Bridgeport$790
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Bridgeport, NE rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bridgeport, Morrill County, Nebraska
Bridgeport is a city of 1,454 people in Morrill County. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Morrill County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 3.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bridgeport is a small city in the Nebraska panhandle, with a population that skews a little older than the typical American town. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a four-year degree is less common among adults here than in many places. Winters are cold and snowy, summers turn hot, and the year brings a modest amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with farming, forestry and mining, government, and transport, warehouses and utilities also employing a good number. Across Morrill County, the largest workplaces include Morrill County Community Hospital, Bridgeport Public Schools and Progress Rail. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Camp Clarke Bridge Site is an archaeological site, and Pumpkin Creek is a river. A longer drive brings you to Chimney Rock National Historic Site, a protected area tied to the story of the westward trails.
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- 559households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 14 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Morrill County had 1,495 jobs in 2025, 3.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 60°. About 39 inches of snow and 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bridgeport weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Morrill County
- Morrill County Community HospitalCritical access hospital179FTE
- Bridgeport Public SchoolsSchool district94FTE
- Bayard Public SchoolsSchool district75FTE
- Progress RailRailroad rolling stock manufacturing54
- Bridgeport EthanolDenatured alcohol manufacturing28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 82 people in all across the county; Bridgeport 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
- DroughtVery high
- HailVery high
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery 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 Bridgeport’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Morrill County.
Bridgeport home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bridgeport$150,541
- 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.
- Bridgeport10
Zip codes with a Bridgeport address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bridgeport — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.