Johnson, Nebraska.
Typical home $252,028 (+8.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$742 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,910 +9%
- $232,118$252,028 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,746 +38%
- $183,282$252,028 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.
- Johnson$1,323
- 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 Johnson, NE rose 8.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Johnson, Nemaha County, Nebraska
Johnson is a village of 309 people in Nemaha County. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Nemaha County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Nemaha County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Johnson is a very small village in Nemaha County, in southeastern Nebraska. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, and the typical home value sits at a level many longtime homeowners would find within reach. Winters are cold and snowy, summers turn properly hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in transport, warehouses and utilities, in manufacturing, and in shops. Across Nemaha County, some of the largest workplaces are Peru State College, Auburn Public Schools and Nemaha County Hospital. Unemployment in the county is low and has barely moved from a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The closest outing is the New Opera House in Auburn, a theatre a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Indian Cave State Park, a protected area, and to Arbor Lodge State Historical Park and Arboretum, a botanical garden. Together they offer an evening at the theatre, time outdoors and a walk among trees.
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- 125households
- 11%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What people in Nemaha County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Nemaha County had 2,905 jobs in 2025, 2.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 65°. About 22 inches of snow and 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tecumseh 1S weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Nemaha County
- Peru State CollegeUniversity or college225
- Auburn Public SchoolsSchool district144FTE
- FAST Global SolutionsIndustrial truck, tractor, trailer, and stacker machinery manufacturing85
- Nemaha County HospitalCritical access hospital84FTE
- Magnolia MetalMachine shops61
- Johnson-brock Public SchoolsSchool district56FTE
- Compass Group55
- SpartanNashSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores35
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 264 people in all across the county; Johnson has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Johnson’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 Nemaha County.
Johnson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Johnson$252,028
- 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 Johnson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Johnson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.