Bushnell, Nebraska.
Typical home $229,389 (+7.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$672 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,028 +8%
- $213,360$229,389 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,575 +30%
- $176,814$229,389 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.
- Bushnell$1,204
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Bushnell, NE rose 7.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bushnell, Kimball County, Nebraska
Bushnell is a village of 115 people in Kimball County. Unemployment in Kimball County was 2.0% in August 2026, and the county had 5.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Kimball County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bushnell is a village in Kimball County, in the western part of Nebraska, and it is one of the smallest places in the county. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest. Rainfall is modest, below what much of the eastern United States receives, so the surrounding land is often dry and open.
Work. Residents of Bushnell most often work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in farming, forestry and mining, or in retail shops. Across Kimball County, unemployment is low and has eased over the past year, and jobs have grown. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Pawnee National Grassland is a protected area of open prairie, a longer drive away, and it is the better known of the places nearby. The Texas Trail Museum is a museum a short drive away, which makes it an easy outing for a single afternoon.
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- 3%of adults have a degree
- 6%work from home
What people in Kimball County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kimball County had 1,575 jobs in 2025, 5.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 41° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 56°. About 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pine Bluffs 1ESE weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kimball County
- Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc 69KP404
- Kimball County HospitalCritical access hospital83FTE
- Kimball Public SchoolsSchool district74FTE
- Curley's Machine WorksMachine bases, metal, manufacturing24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 428 people in all across the county; Bushnell 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bushnell’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 Kimball County.
Bushnell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bushnell$229,389
- 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.
- Bushnell6
Zip codes with a Bushnell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bushnell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.