Dakota City, Nebraska.
Typical home $253,799 (+8.7% in a year). Sioux City, IA-NE-SD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$736 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,406 +9%
- $233,394$253,799 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $64,073 +34%
- $189,727$253,799 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.
- Dakota City$1,332
- 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 Dakota City, NE rose 8.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dakota City, Dakota County, Nebraska
Dakota City is a city of 2,081 people in Dakota County. Half its households earn more than $76,806 a year and half less, against $70,329 across Dakota County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Dakota County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dakota County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dakota City is a small city where most homes are lived in by their owners, more so than in many towns of its size. Household incomes run higher than across Dakota County as a whole, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the trip to work is short for most people. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers are warm, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, followed by schools, hospitals and social care, then shops, restaurants and hotels. Across Dakota County, the largest workplaces include Tyson Fresh Meats, Hirschbach Motor Lines and the South Sioux City school district. Unemployment in the county is low and has barely changed over the past year, and the county has added jobs since the year before.
Things to do. A short drive away, Stone State Park and Ravine Park offer green space, and McCook Lake is a place to spend time by the water. The Big Sioux River is also close by. For an indoor outing, the Sioux City Art Center, a museum, and the Orpheum Theatre are both a short drive away.
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- 742households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 15 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Dakota County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dakota County had 13,970 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 63°. About 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sioux City Ang weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dakota County
- Tyson Fresh MeatsAnimal slaughtering4,169
- Hirschbach Motor LinesGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload823
- empirical foods, inc. - South Sioux CityProcessed meats manufacturing813
- SO Sioux City Community Schs SchoolsSchool district552FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters330
- Fortrex - 0134 Tyson Foods Inc. - Dakota CityJanitorial services172
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores107
- Richardson MillingOat flour manufacturing87
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,388 people in all across the county; Dakota City has one of its own. School districts come 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
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dakota City’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 Dakota County and the Sioux City, IA-NE-SD metro.
Dakota City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dakota City$253,799
- 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.
- Dakota City6
Zip codes with a Dakota City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dakota City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.