Jackson, Nebraska.
Typical home $321,321 (+0.6% in a year). Sioux City, IA-NE-SD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$892 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,944 +1%
- $319,378$321,321 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $72,905 +29%
- $248,416$321,321 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.
- Jackson$1,687
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Jackson, NE rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jackson, Dakota County, Nebraska
Jackson is a village of 207 people in Dakota County. Unemployment in Dakota County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dakota County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jackson is a very small village in Dakota County, Nebraska, with a population that has stayed low for a long time. Winters are cold, with January highs hovering near freezing and nights well below it, while July brings warm summer days. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year. Homes here are worth more than many would expect for a village this size, and few residents have a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants and hotels. Across Dakota County, the largest workplaces include Tyson Fresh Meats, Hirschbach Motor Lines and the South Sioux City school district. Unemployment in the county is low and little changed from a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs than it had the year before. Commutes are short, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Stone State Park offers protected woodland and trails, and McCook Lake is a place to be out on the water. The Sioux City Art Center, also a short drive off, is a museum for an indoor afternoon. Farther afield, Ponca State Park is a longer drive, and it is one of the larger protected areas nearby.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Dakota County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dakota County had 13,970 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 63°. About 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sioux City Ang weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dakota County
- Tyson Fresh MeatsAnimal slaughtering4,169
- Hirschbach Motor LinesGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload823
- empirical foods, inc. - South Sioux CityProcessed meats manufacturing813
- SO Sioux City Community Schs SchoolsSchool district552FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters330
- Fortrex - 0134 Tyson Foods Inc. - Dakota CityJanitorial services172
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores107
- Richardson MillingOat flour manufacturing87
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,388 people in all across the county; Jackson has none of its own. School districts come 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Jackson’s 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 Dakota County and the Sioux City, IA-NE-SD metro.
Jackson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jackson$321,321
- 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 Jackson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jackson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.