Crofton, Nebraska.
Typical home $324,822 (+8.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$963 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $24,673 +8%
- $300,149$324,822 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $83,731 +35%
- $241,091$324,822 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.
- Crofton$1,705
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Crofton, NE rose 8.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Crofton, Knox County, Nebraska
Crofton is a city of 756 people in Knox County. Half its households earn more than $94,583 a year and half less, against $64,636 across Knox County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Knox County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Knox County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Crofton is a very small city in Knox County, Nebraska, with a younger population than most places and nearly all of its homes lived in by their owners. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for a rural area. Winters are cold, with January highs hovering near freezing and lows well below it, and a good deal of snow falls over the year. Summers are warm, and July is the hottest month.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many also in farming, shops and manufacturing. Across Knox County, the largest workplaces include Michael Foods, an egg producer, along with Avera Creighton Hospital and Crofton Community Schools. Commutes are short, and a share of people work from home. Jobs across the county have held about steady, and unemployment is low.
Things to do. Lewis and Clark Lake, a reservoir a short drive away, is the nearest big stretch of water, and Lewis and Clark State Recreation Area sits close by it, also a short drive away. Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery is another short drive, a protected area worth a stop. For a longer outing, the National Music Museum is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 337households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Knox County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Knox County had 2,900 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 38 inches of snow and 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Crofton weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Knox County
- Michael FoodsEgg production, chicken176
- Isanti Community SchoolSchool district91FTE
- Avera Creighton HospitalCritical access hospital72FTE
- Creighton Community Public SchoolsSchool district66FTE
- Mark MillerCattle feedlots62
- Crofton Community SchoolsSchool district59FTE
- Alpine VillageSkilled nursing facilities50
- Niobrara Public SchoolsSchool district48FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 432 people in all across the county; Crofton 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Crofton’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 Knox County.
Crofton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Crofton$324,822
- 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.
- Crofton16
Zip codes with a Crofton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Crofton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.