Linwood, Nebraska.
Typical home $326,879 (+8.5% in a year). Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,048 (+157%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $25,550 +8%
- $301,329$326,879 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $110,036 +51%
- $216,843$326,879 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.
- Linwood$1,716
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Linwood, NE rose 8.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Linwood, Butler County, Nebraska
Linwood is a village of 94 people in Butler County. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Butler County was 2.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Butler County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Linwood is a village in Butler County, in the eastern part of Nebraska. It is a small place where most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are colder than in most of the country, with snow for much of the season, and summers are warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing. Farming, forestry and mining, and local shops also provide work. The county's job numbers have been growing slightly.
Things to do. Lake Wanahoo is a lake a longer drive away, and Clark Creek is a river nearby in the same way. Schneider's Opera House is a theatre, also a longer drive away.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
What people in Butler County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Butler County had 2,644 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 32 inches of snow and 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the David City weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Butler County
- Timpte DC ManufacturingTruck trailer manufacturing583
- A-Lert Construction Services - David CityIndustrial building construction, general contractors150
- St Josephs VillaSkilled nursing facilities140
- David City Public SchoolsSchool district136FTE
- Butler County Health Care CenterCritical access hospital116FTE
- Tuls Dairy- Butler CountyMilk production, dairy cattle89
- East Butler Public SchoolsSchool district80FTE
- Summit Calf RanchCattle farming or ranching65
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,103 people in all across the county; Linwood 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
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Linwood’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 Butler County and the Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
Linwood home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Linwood$326,879
- 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 Linwood address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Linwood — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.