Deshler, Nebraska.
Typical home $127,046 (-0.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$392 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $139 -0%
- $127,185$127,046 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,651 +38%
- $92,395$127,046 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.
- Deshler$667
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Deshler, NE fell 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Deshler, Thayer County, Nebraska
Deshler is a city of 752 people in Thayer County. Half its households earn more than $57,188 a year and half less, against $66,213 across Thayer County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Thayer County was 2.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Deshler is a small city in Thayer County, Nebraska, where most homes are lived in by their owners and a typical home costs less than in much of the country. Household incomes in town run below the county's, and the commute to work is short. Winters are cold, with snow through the season, and summers turn properly hot.
Work. People in Deshler work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops, with some in farming. Across Thayer County, the largest workplaces include Thayer County Health Services, a critical access hospital, along with the Deshler Public Schools and Reincoat, which powder coats metals and metal products for the trade. Unemployment is low and has held steady over the past year, and a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Lovewell Reservoir is a reservoir a longer drive away, and the creeks and small rivers nearby, such as Whisky Run and Brawner Creek, are also a longer drive. The Pawnee Indian Museum State Historic Site, an archaeological site, is likewise a longer drive from town.
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- 273households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 12 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Thayer County had 2,208 jobs in 2025, 0.8% 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, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Thayer County
- Thayer County Health ServicesCritical access hospital114FTE
- Thayer Central Community Schs SchoolsSchool district72FTE
- Deshler Public SchoolsSchool district52FTE
- Bruning-davenport Unified SYSSchool district51FTE
- ReincoatPowder coating metals and metal products for the trade38
- Nutrien Ag SolutionsFarm supplies merchant wholesalers33
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 223 people in all across the county; Deshler has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Deshler’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Thayer County.
Deshler home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Deshler$127,046
- 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 Deshler address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Deshler — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.