Dawson, Nebraska.
Typical home $189,229 (+3.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$542 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,531 +4%
- $182,699$189,229 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $33,408 +21%
- $155,821$189,229 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.
- Dawson$993
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Dawson, NE rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dawson, Richardson County, Nebraska
Dawson is a village of 148 people in Richardson County. Half its households earn more than $60,913 a year and half less, against $60,108 across Richardson County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Richardson County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Richardson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dawson is a very small village in Richardson County, Nebraska, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July; rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with farming, manufacturing and shops also employing many. Across Richardson County, Community Medical Center and Falls City Public Schools are among the largest workplaces. A typical commute is a fairly long one, and a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, the Delaware River is a longer drive away, as is Indian Cave State Park, a protected area. Gehling's Theatre, also a longer drive away, is a place for an evening out.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Richardson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Richardson County had 2,318 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Falls City Brenner Field weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Richardson County
- Community Medical CenterGeneral medical and surgical hospitals246
- Falls City Public SchoolsSchool district161FTE
- Community Medical CenterCritical access hospital145FTE
- Humboldt Table Rock Steinauer SchoolsSchool district81FTE
- FAST Global SolutionsIndustrial truck, tractor, trailer, and stacker machinery manufacturing68
- Falls City Care CenterSkilled nursing facilities61
- Falls City Nursing & RehabSkilled nursing facilities60
- AirlancoHoops, metal, fabricated from purchased metal54
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 563 people in all across the county; Dawson 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively 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 Dawson’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 Richardson County.
Dawson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dawson$189,229
- 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.
Zip codes with a Dawson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dawson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.