Dwight, Nebraska.
Typical home $250,674 (+4.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$779 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,751 +4%
- $240,923$250,674 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $71,212 +40%
- $179,462$250,674 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.
- Dwight$1,316
- 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 Dwight, NE rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dwight, Butler County, Nebraska
Dwight is a village of 229 people in Butler County. Unemployment in Butler County was 2.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Butler 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dwight is a small village in Butler County, Nebraska, where nearly everyone is likely to know their neighbors. Homes here are worth a good deal more than one might expect for such a small place, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than is typical across the country. Winters are cold, with January highs hovering just around freezing and lows well below it, and a fair amount of snow falls over the season. Summers are warm, and July is the hottest month.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming and retail also providing many jobs. Across Butler County, the larger workplaces include Timpte DC Manufacturing, which builds truck trailers, David City Public Schools, and Butler County Health Care Center, a critical access hospital. The county has added a few jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is low and about the same as a year ago. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. For a day out, Lake Wanahoo is a lake a longer drive away, suited to time on the water. The Sheldon Museum of Art, also a longer drive away, is a museum for those who enjoy art. The Lincoln Children's Zoo is another longer drive away and is a good outing when younger family members visit.
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- 121households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Butler County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Butler County had 2,644 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 32 inches of snow and 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the David City weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Butler County
- Timpte DC ManufacturingTruck trailer manufacturing583
- A-Lert Construction Services - David CityIndustrial building construction, general contractors150
- St Josephs VillaSkilled nursing facilities140
- David City Public SchoolsSchool district136FTE
- Butler County Health Care CenterCritical access hospital116FTE
- Tuls Dairy- Butler CountyMilk production, dairy cattle89
- East Butler Public SchoolsSchool district80FTE
- Summit Calf RanchCattle farming or ranching65
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,103 people in all across the county; Dwight 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
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dwight’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 Butler County.
Dwight home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dwight$250,674
- 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 Dwight address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dwight — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.