Dodge, Nebraska.
Typical home $247,562 (+7.9% in a year). Fremont, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$766 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,197 +8%
- $229,365$247,562 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $63,696 +35%
- $183,866$247,562 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.
- Dodge$1,299
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Dodge, NE rose 7.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dodge, Dodge County, Nebraska
Dodge is a village of 611 people in Dodge County. Half its households earn more than $59,688 a year and half less, against $74,329 across Dodge County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Dodge County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dodge County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dodge is a very small village in eastern Nebraska, home to far fewer people than most towns. Household incomes here run below the county's, and typical home values sit in a middle range for the region. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and hardly anyone works from home, so most people leave for work each morning on a short drive. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days, and moisture falls fairly evenly through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Across Dodge County, some of the largest workplaces are Wholestone Farms, Lincoln Premium Poultry and Methodist Fremont Health. Unemployment across the county is low and a little lower than a year earlier, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Schneider's Opera House, a theatre, is a short drive away, and it is the closest of the area's well-known places. A longer drive brings you to the John G. Neihardt State Historic Site, a protected area, and to Clarkson Opera House, another theatre. Each makes a fair day out for anyone willing to travel a little farther.
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- 205households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Dodge County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dodge County had 18,382 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 24 inches of snow and 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Howells weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dodge County
- Wholestone FarmsFats, animal, produced in slaughtering plants1,244
- Lincoln Premium PoultryChicken hatchery and processing1,182
- Nebraska Methodist Health SystemGeneral medical and surgical hospitals825
- Fremont Public SchoolsSchool district667FTE
- Structural Component SystemsTrusses, wood roof or floor, manufacturing465
- FCC Fremont Contract Carriers - MAIN OFFICE AND TRUCK SHOPGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload411
- Midland UniversityUniversity or college405
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters352
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,362 people in all across the county; Dodge has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dodge’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 Dodge County and the Fremont, NE metro.
Dodge home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dodge$247,562
- 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 Dodge address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dodge — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.