Grant, Nebraska.
Typical home $218,685 (+2.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$601 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,966 +2%
- $213,720$218,685 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,474 +23%
- $177,211$218,685 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.
- Grant$1,148
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Grant, NE rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Grant, Perkins County, Nebraska
Grant is a city of 1,197 people in Perkins County. Half its households earn more than $71,389 a year and half less, against $72,778 across Perkins County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Perkins County was 2.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Grant is a small city and the seat of Perkins County, a place where most homes are lived in by their owners and a short drive gets you from one side of town to the other. Incomes run a little below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying close to freezing, while summers turn properly warm by July. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with building trades, restaurants and hotels, and transport, warehouses and utilities also employing local people. Among the largest workplaces in Grant are Perkins County Health Services, Perkins County Schools and The Midwest Electric Cooperative. Most people have a very short trip to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. Grant City Park is in or beside town, a convenient spot for time outdoors close to home. Farther afield, Lake McConaughy, a large reservoir, and the Diamond Springs Stage Station Site, an archaeological site, are each a longer drive away.
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- 584households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 9 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Perkins County had 1,145 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 61°. About 21 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Madrid weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grant
- Perkins County Health ServicesCritical access hospital115FTE
- Perkins County SchoolsSchool district79FTE
- The Midwest Electric CooperativeDistribution of electric power34
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 34 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Grant’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 Perkins County.
Grant home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Grant$218,685
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Grant address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Grant — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.