Hoskins, Nebraska.
Typical home $335,859 (+5.7% in a year). Norfolk, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$991 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,123 +6%
- $317,735$335,859 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $93,791 +39%
- $242,067$335,859 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.
- Hoskins$1,763
- 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 Hoskins, NE rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hoskins, Wayne County, Nebraska
Hoskins is a village of 263 people in Wayne County. Unemployment in Wayne County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 3.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wayne 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hoskins is a very small village in Wayne County, Nebraska, the kind of place where neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here are valued well above what the village's modest size might suggest. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July. Rain and melted snow arrive in moderate amounts through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and farming also part of the picture. Across Wayne County, some of the biggest employers are Wayne State College, Great Dane Trailers and Providence Medical Center. Unemployment in the county is low and has stayed close to where it stood a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. A typical commute is a short one.
Things to do. The Norfolk Community Theatre is a theatre a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Gilman Park Arboretum, a botanical garden, and to Willow Creek State Recreation Area, a protected area. Clarkson Opera House, another theatre, is also a longer drive away.
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- 11%below the poverty line
- 15 mintypical commute
What people in Wayne County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wayne County had 4,042 jobs in 2025, 3.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 26 inches of snow and 26 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Stanton 7NE weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wayne County
- Wayne State CollegeUniversity or college517
- Great Dane TrailersTruck trailer manufacturing425
- Providence Medical CenterCritical access hospital151FTE
- Wayne Community SchoolsSchool district125FTE
- Heritage Homes of NebraskaBuildings, prefabricated, wood, manufacturing72
- Kinship Pointe at WayneRest homes without nursing care67
- Wayne Countryview Care and RehabilitationSkilled nursing facilities64
- Sand Creek Post and BeamDoors, wood and covered wood, manufacturing60
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,073 people in all across the county; Hoskins has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hoskins’ 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 Wayne County and the Norfolk, NE metro.
Hoskins home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hoskins$335,859
- 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.
Zip codes with a Hoskins address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hoskins — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.