Firth, Nebraska.
Typical home $472,600 (+6.9% in a year). Lincoln, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,430 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $30,523 +7%
- $442,077$472,600 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $125,009 +36%
- $347,591$472,600 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.
- Firth$2,481
- 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 Firth, NE rose 6.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Firth, Lancaster County, Nebraska
Firth is a village of 649 people in Lancaster County. Half its households earn more than $80,938 a year and half less, against $74,793 across Lancaster County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Lancaster County was 2.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lancaster County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Firth is a small village in Lancaster County, with a population small enough that most people likely know one another. Residents are younger than in much of the country, and household incomes run above the county's. Homes here are valued well above what is typical across much of the country. Winters are cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers turn warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and manufacturing. Across Lancaster County, some of the largest workplaces are the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln Public Schools and Bryan Medical Center. Unemployment across the county is low, and the county has gained a few more jobs over the past year. Commutes are a little longer than a quick hop across town, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Norris Forest School Arboretum, a botanical garden, is in or beside town. Stagecoach State Recreation Area, a protected area, is a short drive away. For a day out, the University of Nebraska State Museum and the Lincoln Children's Zoo are a longer drive away.
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- 238households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Lancaster County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lancaster County had 176,943 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 25 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Crete 4ESE weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lancaster County
- University of Nebraska-LincolnUniversity or college6,502
- Lincoln Public SchoolsSchool district6,162FTE
- Bryan Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,659FTE
- Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing Corp., U.S.A., Consumer Products1,633
- Duncan Aviation LNKAircraft maintenance and repair services1,593
- Southeast Community College AreaTwo-year college1,187
- Sandhills PublishingTrade magazine and periodical publishers and printing combined1,059
- ZoetisVaccines manufacturing992
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 267 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 35,019 people in all across the county; Firth has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Firth’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 Lancaster County and the Lincoln, NE metro.
Firth home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Firth$472,600
- 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.
- Firth8
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Firth address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Firth — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.