Gering, Nebraska.
Typical home $213,885 (+2.2% in a year). Scottsbluff, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$596 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,693 +2%
- $209,192$213,885 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,536 +30%
- $164,349$213,885 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.
- Gering$1,123
- 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 Gering, NE rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gering, Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska
Gering is a city of 8,564 people in Scotts Bluff County. Half its households earn more than $75,093 a year and half less, against $63,614 across Scotts Bluff County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Scotts Bluff County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gering is a small city in the Nebraska Panhandle, in Scotts Bluff County. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run above the county's. Typical home values are moderate. Winters are cold and snowy, and summers are hot, with fairly little rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, shops and government also employing a good number. Among the town's largest workplaces are Gering Public Schools, Heritage Estates, a skilled nursing facility, and R & C Welding, a metal fabrication firm. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Scotts Bluff National Monument, a protected landmark, sits in or beside town, as do the Marquis Opera House, a theatre, and Riverside Park and Zoo. Northfield Park Arboretum, a botanical garden, is also in or beside town. Chimney Rock National Historic Site is a longer drive away.
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- 3,368households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 15 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Scotts Bluff County had 15,915 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 40° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 60°. About 40 inches of snow and 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Scottsbluff 1E weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gering
- Gering Public SchoolsSchool district265FTE
- Heritage EstatesSkilled nursing facilities181
- R & C WeldingFabricated structural metal manufacturing73
- Brookestone Home Health and Hospice - GeringHome health care agencies32
- Gering Valley Plumbing and HeatingHeating, ventilation and air-conditioning contractors30
- Murphy Tractor & Equipment CoHeavy machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services28
- Summit Christian CollegeUniversity or college24
- Nebraska Machinery CompanyCommercial & industrial machinery and equipment23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 367 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gering’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 Scotts Bluff County and the Scottsbluff, NE metro.
Gering home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gering$213,885
- Nebraska$278,299
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Gering listings — the market is heating up.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Gering20.13%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Gering32
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Gering10
Zip codes with a Gering address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gering — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.