Curtis, Nebraska.
Typical home $144,992 (+2.5% in a year). North Platte, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$404 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,577 +3%
- $141,415$144,992 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,435 +22%
- $118,557$144,992 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.
- Curtis$761
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Curtis, NE rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Curtis, Frontier County, Nebraska
Curtis is a city of 806 people in Frontier County. 52% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 48% are rented. Unemployment in Frontier County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 6.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Curtis is a small city in Frontier County, Nebraska, with a young population: residents are younger on the whole than in most American towns. Owners and renters share the town's homes, with a fair number of renters. Typical home prices are modest, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs hovering just above freezing, while July brings hot summers. Snow falls through the winter, and the town gets a fair amount of rain across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with restaurants, hotels and entertainment, shops, and farming close behind. Across Frontier County, the largest workplaces include Cambridge Memorial Hospital, TRI Valley Health System and the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture. Unemployment in the county has risen a little over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. For a day out, Medicine Creek State Recreation Area is a protected area for time outdoors, though it is a longer drive away. Fort McPherson is a fort with history to explore, and Red Willow Creek is a river, both also a longer drive from town. Mowry Bluff Archeological Site, an archaeological site, is likewise a longer drive away.
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- 308households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Frontier County had 764 jobs in 2025, 6.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 63°. About 28 inches of snow and 21 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Curtis weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Frontier County
- Cambridge Memorial HospitalHospital223
- TRI Valley Health SystemCritical access hospital125FTE
- Nebraska College of Technical AgricultureTwo-year college51
- Eustis-farnam Public SchoolsSchool district49FTE
- Maywood Public SchoolsSchool district44FTE
- Medicine Valley Public SchoolsSchool district42FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 223 people in all across the county; Curtis has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Strong windVery high
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Curtis’ 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 Frontier County and the North Platte, NE metro.
Curtis home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Curtis$144,992
- 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.
- Curtis9
Zip codes with a Curtis address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Curtis — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.