Cedar Bluffs, Nebraska.
Typical home $254,782 (+2.5% in a year). Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$723 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,153 +2%
- $248,629$254,782 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,763 +24%
- $206,019$254,782 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.
- Cedar Bluffs$1,337
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Cedar Bluffs, NE rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cedar Bluffs, Saunders County, Nebraska
Cedar Bluffs is a village of 615 people in Saunders County. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Saunders County was 2.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Saunders County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cedar Bluffs is a small village in Saunders County, Nebraska, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. A typical home here is worth a good deal less than a typical home in much of the country, and the village has a quiet, settled feel. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly warm by July. Rain and melted snow arrive in moderate amounts through the year.
Work. People who live here work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, the building trades and manufacturing. Across Saunders County, some of the largest workplaces are JEO Consulting Group, Wahoo Public Schools and Saunders Medical Center. Commutes are fairly long, and few residents work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Fremont Lakes State Recreation Area is a protected area for time outdoors, the Nebraska Railroad Museum is a museum for rail history, and the Love-Larson Opera House is a theatre. For water, Lake Wanahoo is a lake a longer drive away.
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- 31%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Saunders County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Saunders County had 6,040 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fremont weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Saunders County
- JEO Consulting GroupCivil engineering services450
- Wahoo Public SchoolsSchool district169FTE
- Ashland-greenwood Public SchsSchool district150FTE
- Saunders Medical CenterCritical access hospital140FTE
- Cedar Bluffs Public SchoolsSchool district87FTE
- Darling InternationalRendering plants86
- Yutan Public SchoolsSchool district78FTE
- OSC (Omaha Steel Casting)Steel foundries65
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,167 people in all across the county; Cedar Bluffs has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cedar Bluffs’ 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 Saunders County and the Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
Cedar Bluffs home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cedar Bluffs$254,782
- 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.
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Zip codes with a Cedar Bluffs address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cedar Bluffs — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.