Daykin, Nebraska.
Typical home $220,962 (-0.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$613 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,183 -1%
- $222,145$220,962 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,078 +24%
- $178,884$220,962 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.
- Daykin$1,160
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Daykin, NE fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Daykin, Jefferson County, Nebraska
Daykin is a village of 153 people in Jefferson County. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jefferson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Daykin is a very small village, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home, which is far more than across most of the country. Incomes in the village run on the modest side, and a typical home costs less than in many parts of the state. Winters are cold and snowy, summers turn properly hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in farming, manufacturing, and transport and warehousing. Across Jefferson County, some of the biggest workplaces are Endicott Clay Products, Fairbury Public Schools and Jefferson Community Health Center. The county has been adding jobs, and unemployment there is a little lower than a year ago. A typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. Homestead National Historical Park is a protected area and the best known of the nearby places, though it is a longer drive away. Rock Creek Station is another protected area, also a longer drive away, and Warren's Opera House is a theatre reached the same way. For time near water, Whisky Run is a nearby river, though it too is a longer drive.
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- 5%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
What people in Jefferson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 3,419 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 65°. About 23 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hebron weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jefferson County
- Endicott Clay ProductsClay refractories manufacturing244
- Fairbury Public SchoolsSchool district171FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters164
- Westin Packaged MeatsProcessed meats manufacturing139
- Jefferson Community Health CenterCritical access hospital138FTE
- TRI County Public SchoolsSchool district81FTE
- Heritage Care CenterNursing homes67
- Meridian Public SchoolsSchool district51FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 708 people in all across the county; Daykin 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
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively 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 Daykin’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 Jefferson County.
Daykin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Daykin$220,962
- 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 Daykin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Daykin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.