Henderson, Nebraska.
Typical home $206,964 (-3.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$609 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,133 -3%
- $214,097$206,964 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,942 +29%
- $161,022$206,964 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.
- Henderson$1,086
- 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 Henderson, NE fell 3.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Henderson, York County, Nebraska
Henderson is a city of 1,080 people in York County. Half its households earn more than $82,500 a year and half less, against $77,757 across York County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in York County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in York County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Henderson is a small city where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, a good deal more than is typical across the country. Household incomes run above the county's, and a four-year degree is held by a fair number of adults but not by most. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and highs staying close to freezing, and summers turn warm in July.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and farming also employing many people. Across York County, some of the largest workplaces are York General Hospital, York Public Schools and Champion Homes. The commute is short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The IOOF Opera House, a theatre, is a short drive away. Farther out, a longer drive brings you to The Plainsman Museum and to Morning Star Lake, a good spot for time by the water. Junction Motor Speedway, a race track, is also a longer drive away.
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- 386households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 10 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in York County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. York County had 7,682 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
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, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in York County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters268
- York General HospitalCritical access hospital261FTE
- York Public SchoolsSchool district199FTE
- Champion HomesManufactured homes manufacturing167
- Klute Steel FabricationFabricated structural metal manufacturing166
- York UniversityUniversity or college133
- Pioneer Hi-Bred InternationalSeed processing, post-harvest for propagation110
- CortevaSeed processing, post-harvest for propagation82
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,595 people in all across the county; Henderson has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively 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 Henderson’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 York County.
Henderson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Henderson$206,964
- 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.
- Henderson6
Zip codes with a Henderson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Henderson — 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.