David City, Nebraska.
Typical home $212,149 (+5.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$674 (+153%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,263 +6%
- $200,886$212,149 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $70,164 +49%
- $141,985$212,149 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.
- David City$1,114
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in David City, NE rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in David City, Butler County, Nebraska
David City is a city of 2,995 people in Butler County. Half its households earn more than $65,573 a year and half less, against $79,268 across Butler County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Butler County was 2.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. David City is a small city in Butler County, Nebraska, with a population on the younger side for a town of its size. Incomes here run below the county's, and more households rent than across the county as a whole. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm by July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming and retail also giving people work. Among the biggest workplaces in David City are St Josephs Villa, David City Public Schools and Butler County Health Care Center. Commutes are fairly short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Wanahoo is a lake a longer drive away, suited to a day by the water. Surprise Opera House and Clem's Opera House are theatres, also a longer drive away, and both are worth a trip for an evening out.
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- 1,251households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Butler County had 2,644 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 32 inches of snow and 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the David City weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in David City
- St Josephs VillaSkilled nursing facilities140
- David City Public SchoolsSchool district136FTE
- Butler County Health Care CenterCritical access hospital116FTE
- Butler Public Power DistrictDistribution of electric power26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 166 people in all. 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
- Strong windVery high
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 David 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 Butler County.
David City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- David City$212,149
- 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.
- David City12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a David City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls David City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.