Hooper, Nebraska.
Typical home $290,788 (+5.9% in a year). Fremont, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$904 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,163 +6%
- $274,625$290,788 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $78,577 +37%
- $212,211$290,788 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.
- Hooper$1,526
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Hooper, NE rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hooper, Dodge County, Nebraska
Hooper is a city of 857 people in Dodge County. Half its households earn more than $77,865 a year and half less, against $74,329 across Dodge County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Dodge County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hooper is a small city in Dodge County, Nebraska, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the population is younger than in many towns of its size. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than is typical. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers are warm, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, manufacturing and shops following. A four-year degree is held by a minority of adults, and very few people work from home, so most head out to a workplace on a fairly short commute. Across Dodge County, some of the largest employers are Wholestone Farms, Methodist Fremont Health and Fremont Public Schools.
Things to do. Clark Creek and Pebble Creek are both rivers a short drive away, handy for time outdoors close to home. A longer drive brings you to Fort Atkinson, an old fort, and to the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area. The Love-Larson Opera House, a theatre, is also a longer drive away.
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- 323households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dodge County had 18,382 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fremont weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dodge County
- Wholestone FarmsFats, animal, produced in slaughtering plants1,244
- Lincoln Premium PoultryChicken hatchery and processing1,182
- Nebraska Methodist Health SystemGeneral medical and surgical hospitals825
- Fremont Public SchoolsSchool district667FTE
- Structural Component SystemsTrusses, wood roof or floor, manufacturing465
- FCC Fremont Contract Carriers - MAIN OFFICE AND TRUCK SHOPGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload411
- Midland UniversityUniversity or college405
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters352
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,362 people in all across the county; Hooper has none of its own. School districts come 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hooper’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 Dodge County and the Fremont, NE metro.
Hooper home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hooper$290,788
- 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.
- Hooper5
Zip codes with a Hooper address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hooper — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.