Bruning, Nebraska.
Typical home $176,537 (+9.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$580 (+167%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,327 +10%
- $161,210$176,537 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,462 +55%
- $114,075$176,537 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.
- Bruning$927
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Bruning, NE rose 9.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bruning, Thayer County, Nebraska
Bruning is a village of 281 people in Thayer County. Half its households earn more than $73,750 a year and half less, against $66,213 across Thayer County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Thayer County was 2.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bruning is a very small village, and most of the homes in it are lived in by their owners, more than in most places. Incomes run above the county's, and few households live below the poverty line. Residents are of fairly typical age for the country, and the winters are cold, with real snow, while July brings hot days.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, farming and banking and insurance. Across Thayer County, the largest workplaces include Thayer County Health Services, a critical access hospital, and the school district Thayer Central Community Schs Schools. Unemployment in the county is low and little changed from a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up. The typical trip to work is short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The nearest outings are all a longer drive away. Warren's Opera House is a theatre, and Junction Motor Speedway is a race track. For time by the water, Whisky Run is one of several rivers and creeks in reach.
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- 94households
- 4%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Thayer County had 2,208 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 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 65°. About 23 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hebron weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Thayer County
- Thayer County Health ServicesCritical access hospital114FTE
- Thayer Central Community Schs SchoolsSchool district72FTE
- Deshler Public SchoolsSchool district52FTE
- Bruning-davenport Unified SYSSchool district51FTE
- ReincoatPowder coating metals and metal products for the trade38
- Nutrien Ag SolutionsFarm supplies merchant wholesalers33
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 223 people in all across the county; Bruning has none 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bruning’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 Thayer County.
Bruning home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bruning$176,537
- 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 Bruning address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bruning — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.