Herman, Nebraska.
Typical home $404,748 (+3.8% in a year). Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,274 (+150%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,694 +4%
- $390,054$404,748 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $119,762 +42%
- $284,986$404,748 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.
- Herman$2,124
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Herman, NE rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Herman, Washington County, Nebraska
Herman is a village of 247 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $80,461 a year and half less, against $94,396 across Washington County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Washington County was 2.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washington County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Herman is a very small village in Washington County, Nebraska, where people mostly know their neighbors. Household incomes run below the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line, though homes here are valued at well above what the town's incomes might suggest. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most places, and commutes tend to be long, with only a handful of people working from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, the building trades and manufacturing also common. Many head out of town for work, and across Washington County, larger workplaces include Cargill, Blair Community Schools and Great Plains Communications. Unemployment in the county is low, and the number of local jobs slipped slightly last year.
Things to do. For history, Fort Atkinson is a fort and a longer drive away, as is the Bertrand archaeological site. For time outdoors, the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Boyer River is another longer drive. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, and summers get hot by July, so the seasons shape how people spend time outside.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 42 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Washington County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 8,496 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tekamah Municipal Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- BlairGeneral warehousing and storage616
- Great Plains CommunicationsTelecommunications carriers, wired476
- CargillCorn sweeteners made by wet milling corn448
- Blair Community SchoolsSchool district259FTE
- Woodhouse Ford ChryslerNew car dealers255
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters216
- NovonesisEnzyme proteins manufacturing190
- Memorial Community HospitalCritical access hospital183FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,389 people in all across the county; Herman 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
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Herman’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Washington County and the Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
Herman home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Herman$404,748
- 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.
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Zip codes with a Herman address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Herman — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.