Kimball, Nebraska.
Typical home $167,017 (+5.1% in a year). Scottsbluff, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$523 (+148%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,105 +5%
- $158,913$167,017 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,306 +30%
- $128,711$167,017 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.
- Kimball$877
- 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 Kimball, NE rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kimball, Kimball County, Nebraska
Kimball is a city of 2,290 people in Kimball County. Half its households earn more than $56,174 a year and half less, against $56,712 across Kimball County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Kimball County was 2.0% in August 2026, and the county had 5.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kimball is a city in the Nebraska Panhandle, in the far west of the state, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold and snowy, and summers are warm, so the seasons are easy to tell apart. The town is the seat of Kimball County, and life here moves at a quieter pace than in the state's larger cities.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, or in the building trades. Jobs have grown over the past year, and unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier. Household incomes sit a little below the county's, and most people have a short commute, with few working from home.
Things to do. The Texas Trail Museum is the main place listed nearby, and it is a longer drive away from town. Because the list offers little else, a visit there is the most straightforward outing to plan.
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- 1,017households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 13 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kimball County had 1,575 jobs in 2025, 5.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 55°. About 30 inches of snow and 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kimball 2NE weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kimball
- Kimball County HospitalCritical access hospital83FTE
- Kimball Public SchoolsSchool district74FTE
- Curley's Machine WorksMachine bases, metal, manufacturing24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 24 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kimball’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 Kimball County and the Scottsbluff, NE metro.
Kimball home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kimball$167,017
- Nebraska$278,299
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Kimball listings — the market is heating up.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Kimball21.72%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kimball29
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Kimball6
Zip codes with a Kimball address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kimball — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.