Decatur, Nebraska.
Typical home $147,071 (+4.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$464 (+150%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,308 +4%
- $140,764$147,071 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,666 +41%
- $104,405$147,071 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.
- Decatur$772
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Decatur, NE rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Decatur, Burt County, Nebraska
Decatur is a village of 410 people in Burt County. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Burt County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Burt 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Decatur is a small village, with far fewer people than most towns and a quiet, close-knit scale. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical home value is modest. Winters are cold and snowy, with January highs near freezing and a good deal of snow, while July brings warm summer days.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with farming, the building trades and manufacturing close behind. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the commute is long for many people. Across Burt County, some of the largest workplaces are the Tekamah-Herman Community Schools, Oakland Craig Public Schools and Oakland Heights, a skilled nursing facility.
Things to do. Lewis and Clark State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and the Onawa IOOF Opera House, a theatre, is also a short drive off. A longer drive leads to the John G. Neihardt State Historic Site, another protected area worth the trip for anyone who enjoys history and open country.
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- 251households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Burt County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Burt County had 1,734 jobs in 2025, 2.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 63°. About 31 inches of snow and 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Onawa 3NW weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Burt County
- Tekamah-herman Community Schs SchoolsSchool district95FTE
- Oakland Craig Public SchoolsSchool district75FTE
- Oakland HeightsSkilled nursing facilities65
- Lyons-decatur Northeast Schs SchoolsSchool district61FTE
- Accura Healthcare of Tekamah - TekamahSkilled nursing facilities60
- Brehmer MFGAgricultural machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services47
- Central Valley AgFarm supplies merchant wholesalers42
- R GroupCustom architectural millwork and fixtures, manufacturing on a job shop basis23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 257 people in all across the county; Decatur has none 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
- HailVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Decatur’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 Burt County.
Decatur home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Decatur$147,071
- 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.
- Decatur5
Zip codes with a Decatur address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Decatur — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.