Hadar, Nebraska.
Typical home $234,047 (+1.6% in a year). Norfolk, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$610 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,666 +2%
- $230,381$234,047 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,599 +18%
- $198,448$234,047 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.
- Hadar$1,228
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Hadar, NE rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hadar, Pierce County, Nebraska
Hadar is a village of 280 people in Pierce County. Half its households earn more than $77,222 a year and half less, against $72,357 across Pierce County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Pierce County was 1.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pierce County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hadar is a very small village in Pierce County, in northeast Nebraska, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows well below, and the summers are warm, with July the hottest month. Snow falls through the winter and the year brings a fair amount of moisture overall.
Work. People who live here work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with farming, manufacturing and shops also employing many. Across Pierce County, some of the largest workplaces are Pierce Public Schools, Husker Ag and Osmond General Hospital. Unemployment across the county is low and lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has barely changed. The trip to work is short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away are Willow Creek State Recreation Area, a protected area good for time outdoors, and Norfolk Community Theatre, a local theatre for an evening out. Gilman Park Arboretum, a botanical garden, is also a short drive away. Battle Creek, a river, is nearby too, and a longer drive brings you to the Wayne State College Arboretum, another botanical garden.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 13 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Pierce County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pierce County had 1,968 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 26 inches of snow and 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Norfolk 4W weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pierce County
- Pierce Public SchoolsSchool district101FTE
- Plainview Public SchoolsSchool district67FTE
- Husker AgDenatured alcohol manufacturing63
- Powersports NationGenerators, motor vehicle electrical, used, merchant wholesalers59
- Osmond Community SchoolsSchool district51FTE
- Osmond General HospitalCritical access hospital45FTE
- A&R Construction CoConcrete paving35
- CHI Health PlainviewCritical access hospital35FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 217 people in all across the county; Hadar 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively 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 Hadar’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 Pierce County and the Norfolk, NE metro.
Hadar home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hadar$234,047
- 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 Hadar address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hadar — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.