Lawrence, Nebraska.
Typical home $197,485 (+8.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$563 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,534 +9%
- $181,951$197,485 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,278 +25%
- $158,207$197,485 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.
- Lawrence$1,037
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Lawrence, NE rose 8.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lawrence, Nuckolls County, Nebraska
Lawrence is a village of 272 people in Nuckolls County. Half its households earn more than $69,375 a year and half less, against $73,976 across Nuckolls County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 98% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 2% are rented. Unemployment in Nuckolls County was 2.0% in August 2026, and the county had 4.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Nuckolls County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lawrence is a small village in Nuckolls County, Nebraska, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Poverty is rare here, and household incomes run a little below the county's. Winters are cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers turn hot, so the year has a clear shape.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with farming, shops, and transport and warehousing also common. Across Nuckolls County, Brodstone Memorial Hospital and Superior Public Schools are among the largest places to work. Very few people in town work from home, and the county has been adding jobs while unemployment stays low.
Things to do. The Lawrence Opera House, a theatre in or beside town, is the nearest place to spend an evening. A longer drive away are Lovewell Reservoir, a good choice for time by the water, and the Hastings Museum, which suits a day out.
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- 105households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 1%work from home
What people in Nuckolls County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Nuckolls County had 1,636 jobs in 2025, 4.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 64°. About 19 inches of snow and 25 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Red Cloud weather station, 19 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Nuckolls County
- Brodstone Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital184FTE
- Superior Public SchoolsSchool district97FTE
- GSS SuperiorNursing homes64
- Mid Nebraska Individual ServicesWorkshops for persons with disabilities25
- Mid Nebraska Individual Services ResidentialIntellectual and developmental disability homes25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 114 people in all across the county; Lawrence has none of its own. 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
- Strong windVery high
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lawrence’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Nuckolls County.
Lawrence home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lawrence$197,485
- 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 Lawrence address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lawrence — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.