Hemingford, Nebraska.
Typical home $211,502 (+3.4% in a year). Scottsbluff, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$642 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,915 +3%
- $204,588$211,502 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,866 +28%
- $165,637$211,502 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.
- Hemingford$1,110
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Hemingford, NE rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hemingford, Box Butte County, Nebraska
Hemingford is a village of 787 people in Box Butte County. Half its households earn more than $70,667 a year and half less, against $68,892 across Box Butte County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Box Butte County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hemingford is a small village in Box Butte County, Nebraska, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than in many small places. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July; the year brings a modest amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by transport, warehouses and utilities, then shops and the building trades. Across Box Butte County, some of the largest workplaces are Box Butte General Hospital, Alliance Public Schools and Hemingford Public Schools. Commutes are short, and unemployment across the county is low and close to where it stood a year earlier.
Things to do. Box Butte Reservoir State Recreation Area is a park a short drive away, a handy spot for time outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Chadron State Park and the Pine Ridge National Recreation Area, both protected areas in the region's pine-covered ridges.
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- 23%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 15 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Box Butte County had 3,726 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 59°. About 45 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hemingford weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Box Butte County
- BOX Butte General HospitalCritical access hospital244FTE
- Fluid Connectors AllianceRubber manufacturing230
- Alliance Public SchoolsSchool district198FTE
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores92
- Vetter Senior LivingSkilled nursing facilities91
- Hemingford Public SchoolsSchool district82FTE
- AllianceMail and parcel delivery40
- Pepsi-Cola of Western NebraskaSoft drinks merchant wholesalers40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 567 people in all across the county; Hemingford 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
- DroughtVery high
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hemingford’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 Box Butte County and the Scottsbluff, NE metro.
Hemingford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hemingford$211,502
- 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 Hemingford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hemingford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.