Byron, Nebraska.
Typical home $161,214 (+1.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$436 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,874 +1%
- $159,340$161,214 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,212 +14%
- $141,002$161,214 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.
- Byron$846
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Byron, NE rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Byron, Thayer County, Nebraska
Byron is a village of 83 people in Thayer County. Half its households earn more than $50,417 a year and half less, against $66,213 across Thayer County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 people in Thayer County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Byron is a small village in Thayer County, in southeastern Nebraska, with a very small population. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in farming, forestry and mining, in manufacturing, and in shops. Household incomes in the village are below the county's, and only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. The Pawnee Indian Museum State Historic Site, an archaeological site, is a short drive away. Lovewell Reservoir, a reservoir, and Wolf Creek, a river, are both a longer drive away.
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- 14%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What people in Thayer County 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 38° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 67°. About 15 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Belleville weather station, 15 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; Byron 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 Byron’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.
Byron home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Byron$161,214
- 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 Byron address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Byron — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.