Du Bois, Nebraska.
Typical home $198,618 (+3.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$578 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,036 +3%
- $192,582$198,618 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,681 +31%
- $151,937$198,618 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.
- Du Bois$1,042
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Du Bois, NE rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Du Bois, Pawnee County, Nebraska
Du Bois is a village of 122 people in Pawnee County. Unemployment in Pawnee County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 3.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pawnee 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Du Bois is a very small village in Pawnee County, Nebraska, where most of the adults do not hold a four-year degree. Homes here are valued below what many buyers would expect to pay in much of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and days staying below freezing at night, and summers are hot, with July the warmest month.
Work. Across Pawnee County, people work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with farming, manufacturing and the building trades also employing many residents. Among the largest workplaces in the county are Alphia in Pawnee City, which makes pet food, Pawnee City Public Schools, and Pawnee County Memorial Hospital. Unemployment in the county is low and has barely changed from a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The Delaware River is a longer drive away, for time spent by the water. Also a longer drive away is the Itha T. Krumme Memorial Arboretum, a botanical garden. For an evening out, Gehling's Theatre is a theatre within a longer drive.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
What people in Pawnee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pawnee County had 683 jobs in 2025, 3.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pawnee City weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pawnee County
- Alphia - Pawnee CityPet food, dog and cat, manufacturing145
- Pawnee City Public SchoolsSchool district56FTE
- Lewiston Consolidated SchoolsSchool district47FTE
- Pawnee County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital47FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 145 people in all across the county; Du Bois 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively 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 Du Bois’ 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 Pawnee County.
Du Bois home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Du Bois$198,618
- 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 Du Bois address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Du Bois — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.