Hershey, Nebraska.
Typical home $279,676 (+7.0% in a year). North Platte, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$822 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,309 +7%
- $261,367$279,676 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $80,474 +40%
- $199,202$279,676 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.
- Hershey$1,468
- 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 Hershey, NE rose 7.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hershey, Lincoln County, Nebraska
Hershey is a village of 649 people in Lincoln County. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Lincoln County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 3.4% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hershey is a village in Lincoln County, Nebraska, with a population that is small and a little older than the national average. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and relatively few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are hot, and the year brings modest rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, in shops, and in farming. Across Lincoln County, some of the biggest employers are Great Plains Health, Mid-Plains Community College and North Platte Public Schools. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The Platte River and the North Platte River are both a longer drive away, for time spent by the water. Also a longer drive away are Fort McPherson, a historic fort, and the Neville Center for the Performing Arts, a theatre.
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- 291households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lincoln County had 15,243 jobs in 2025, 3.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 60°. About 27 inches of snow and 20 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hershey Sse weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lincoln County
- Great Plains HealthGeneral hospital983FTE
- Mid-Plains Community CollegeTwo-year college686
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage671
- North Platte Public SchoolsSchool district541FTE
- Sustainable BeefBoxed beef produced in slaughtering plants515
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters385
- Linden CourtSkilled nursing facilities178
- North Platte TerminalTransportation motor freight transportation trucking except air167
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,456 people in all across the county; Hershey has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hershey’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 Lincoln County and the North Platte, NE metro.
Hershey home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hershey$279,676
- 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.
- Hershey7
Zip codes with a Hershey address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hershey — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.