Genoa, Nebraska.
Typical home $192,061 (-1.6% in a year). Columbus, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$545 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,053 -2%
- $195,114$192,061 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,946 +21%
- $159,115$192,061 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.
- Genoa$1,008
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Genoa, NE fell 1.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Genoa, Nance County, Nebraska
Genoa is a city of 894 people in Nance County. Half its households earn more than $66,667 a year and half less, against $65,179 across Nance County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Nance County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Genoa is a small Nebraska city where most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run a little above the county's. Residents tend to be somewhat older than in much of the country, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical nationally. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in farming, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Nance County, the largest workplaces include Twin River Public Schools, Fullerton Public Schools and Genoa Community Hospital. Jobs across the county slipped a little last year, while unemployment remains low.
Things to do. For an evening out, the State Theatre is a theatre a longer drive away. Morning Star Lake, also a longer drive away, is a lake that suits a day by the water.
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- 336households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Nance County had 921 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 29 inches of snow and 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Genoa West weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Nance County
- Twin River Public SchoolsSchool district85FTE
- Fullerton Public SchoolsSchool district57FTE
- Genoa Community HospitalCritical access hospital49FTE
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
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- LightningVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Genoa’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 Nance County and the Columbus, NE metro.
Genoa home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Genoa$192,061
- 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.
- Genoa7
Zip codes with a Genoa address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Genoa — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.