Doniphan, Nebraska.
Typical home $351,747 (+2.8% in a year). Grand Island, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$982 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,674 +3%
- $342,073$351,747 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,485 +27%
- $276,262$351,747 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.
- Doniphan$1,846
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Doniphan, NE rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Doniphan, Hall County, Nebraska
Doniphan is a village of 809 people in Hall County. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Hall County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hall County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Doniphan is a small village in Hall County, Nebraska, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners and the pace is that of a close-knit farming community. Fewer residents hold a four-year degree than in many places, and poverty is low. Winters are cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers turn warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Hall County, some of the largest workplaces are JBS, Grand Island Public Schools and Central Community College. Commutes are short, and almost no one works from home. The county has seen a slight dip in jobs over the past year, while unemployment there has edged down.
Things to do. The Stuhr Museum is a short drive away and is the nearest of the area's museums. Farther afield, the Hastings Museum and The Plainsman Museum are each a longer drive away, and the IOOF Opera House is a theatre, also a longer drive away.
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- 381households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Hall County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hall County had 35,892 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 29 inches of snow and 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hastings 4N weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hall County
- JBSBeef produced in slaughtering plants3,949
- Grand Island Public SchoolsSchool district1,456FTE
- Central Community CollegeTwo-year college775
- CNHHarvesting machinery and equipment, agriculture, manufacturing686
- Hornady Mfg CoAmmunition, small arms, manufacturing562
- CHI Health St. FrancisGeneral hospital444FTE
- McCain FoodsVegetables, frozen, manufacturing438
- Hornady MFG Co West PlantAmmunition, small arms, manufacturing403
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 74 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 11,855 people in all across the county; Doniphan has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery 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 Doniphan’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 Hall County and the Grand Island, NE metro.
Doniphan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Doniphan$351,747
- 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.
- Doniphan8
Zip codes with a Doniphan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Doniphan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.