Kennard, Nebraska.
Typical home $425,239 (+2.0% in a year). Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,215 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,183 +2%
- $417,056$425,239 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $94,383 +29%
- $330,856$425,239 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.
- Kennard$2,232
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Kennard, NE rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kennard, Washington County, Nebraska
Kennard is a village of 381 people in Washington County. Unemployment in Washington County was 2.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washington County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kennard is a small village in Washington County, Nebraska, with a younger population than many small towns and few residents living below the poverty line. Homes here are valued well above what is typical for much of the state, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in many places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs hovering around freezing, while July brings warm summer afternoons; the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, the building trades and manufacturing. Unemployment across Washington County is low and a little lower than a year ago, though the county had slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before. Among the county's largest workplaces are Blair Community Schools, Cargill and Great Plains Communications, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Fort Atkinson, a historic fort, and Bell Creek are both a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, and Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium is another longer trip for a day out.
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- 18%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
What people in Washington County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 8,496 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 65°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fort Calhoun 4W weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- BlairGeneral warehousing and storage616
- Great Plains CommunicationsTelecommunications carriers, wired476
- CargillCorn sweeteners made by wet milling corn448
- Blair Community SchoolsSchool district259FTE
- Woodhouse Ford ChryslerNew car dealers255
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters216
- NovonesisEnzyme proteins manufacturing190
- Memorial Community HospitalCritical access hospital183FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,389 people in all across the county; Kennard has none of its own. School districts come 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
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kennard’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 Washington County and the Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
Kennard home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kennard$425,239
- 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 Kennard address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kennard — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.