Cook, Nebraska.
Typical home $223,204 (+2.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$623 (+114%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $5,836 +3%
- $217,368$223,204 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,288 +25%
- $178,916$223,204 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.
- Cook$1,172
- 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 Cook, NE rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cook, Johnson County, Nebraska
Cook is a village of 319 people in Johnson County. Half its households earn more than $65,714 a year and half less, against $57,632 across Johnson County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Johnson County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 5.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Johnson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cook is a very small village in Johnson County, Nebraska, where households earn more than the county's as a whole. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and a good deal of snow falls in a typical year, while July brings the warmest days. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, government, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Johnson County, some of the largest workplaces are the Tecumseh Plant, a poultry processor, Johnson CO Central Public Schs and Johnson County Hospital. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The best known place nearby is the Tecumseh Opera House, a theatre a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Nishnabotna River and to Steinhart Park, which offer time by the water and outdoors. Arbor Lodge State Historical Park and Arboretum, a botanical garden, is also a longer drive away.
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- 146households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Johnson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Johnson County had 1,469 jobs in 2025, 5.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 65°. About 26 inches of snow and 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Syracuse weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Johnson County
- Tecumseh PlantPoultry processing184
- Johnson CO Central Public SchsSchool district99FTE
- Johnson County HospitalCritical access hospital84FTE
- Lew Thompson & Sons- TecumsehTrucking, specialized freight, long-distance40
- Sterling Public SchoolsSchool district38FTE
- Fortrex - 0140 MBA - TecumsehJanitorial services34
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 258 people in all across the county; Cook has none 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
- HailRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cook’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Johnson County.
Cook home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cook$223,204
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Cook address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cook — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.