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Hampton, Nebraska.

Typical home $298,494 (+6.3% in a year).

What it costs per month · Hampton $1,567/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$878 (+127%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $17,734 +6%
$280,760$298,494 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $76,007 +34%
$222,487$298,494 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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Hampton $1,567 Nebraska $1,461 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Hampton$1,567
  • Nebraska$1,461
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.

Typical home values in Hampton, NE rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

Living in Hampton, Hamilton County, Nebraska

Hampton is a village of 432 people in Hamilton County. Half its households earn more than $83,529 a year and half less, against $83,994 across Hamilton County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Hamilton County was 1.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.

People 432 in the 2020 census; median age 33.5
Household income $83,529 the median, give or take $11,194 · Hamilton County: $83,994
Unemployment 1.9% Hamilton County, August 2026; 2.2% a year before
Homes 84% lived in by their owners; 16% rented

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hampton is a small village in Hamilton County, Nebraska, where the population is small and neighbors live close to one another. Households here earn about what households across the county do, and the great majority of homes are lived in by their owners. Residents are fairly young for a rural place, and fewer than most adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and snow add up to a moderate amount through the year.

Work. People who live in Hampton work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing, and banking, insurance and property. Across Hamilton County, the largest workplaces include Mars Petcare, which makes dog and cat food, Memorial Community Health, a critical access hospital, and Aurora Public Schools. Unemployment in the county is low and a little lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home.

Things to do. The IOOF Opera House, a theatre, is in or beside town. A short drive away is The Plainsman Museum, and a longer drive brings you to Stuhr Museum, along with Morning Star Lake for time by the water. Those who like live shows or racing will find State Theatre and Junction Motor Speedway, also a longer drive away.

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  • 236households
  • 21%of adults have a degree
  • 6%below the poverty line
  • 19 mintypical commute
  • 2%work from home

What residents work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care18%
  • Shops (retail)18%
  • Manufacturing9%
  • Banks, insurance and property9%
  • Building trades8%
  • Transport, warehouses and utilities8%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hamilton County had 3,974 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 36° and 15°; warmest in July, 86° and 65° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 36° 15° F M A M J J 86° 65° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 36° and 15°; warmest in July, 86° and 65° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 36° 15° F M A M J J 86° 65° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 27 inches of snow and 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Aurora weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Hamilton County

  1. Mars PetcareDog and cat food, manufacturing236
  2. Memorial Community HealthCritical access hospital194FTE
  3. Aurora Public SchoolsSchool district192FTE
  4. Chief IndustriesBuildings, mobile, commercial use, manufacturing161
  5. Aurora Cooperative - Corporate OfficeGrain elevators merchant wholesalers grain137
  6. XPOFreight transportation80
  7. KAAPA Partners AuroraDenatured alcohol manufacturing54
  8. Giltner Public SchoolsSchool district45FTE

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 829 people in all across the county; Hampton has one of its own. 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

  1. HailVery high
  2. Strong windVery high
  3. Winter weatherVery high
  4. TornadoesVery high
  5. DroughtRelatively high
  6. Ice stormsRelatively high

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hampton’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 Hamilton County.

Hampton home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 Hampton $298,494 Nebraska $278,299 United States $366,157
$150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2022 2026
  • Hampton$298,494
  • 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.

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falling flat warming hot overheating runaway

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 Hampton address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hampton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.

Zip codes in Hampton

Zip Place Population Rent Home value
68371 Henderson 1,314 — $244,818
68843 Hampton 1,032 — $299,422