Long Pine, Nebraska.
Typical home $129,462 (+4.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$337 (+98%) since Feb 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,958 +4%
- $124,504$129,462 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $18,358 +17%
- $111,104$129,462 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.
- Long Pine$680
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Long Pine, NE rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Long Pine, Brown County, Nebraska
Long Pine is a city of 305 people in Brown County. Unemployment in Brown County was 2.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Brown 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Long Pine is a very small city in Brown County, in the Nebraska Sandhills country, where daily life moves at a quiet pace. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a good deal of snow, and summers turn properly hot by July. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and incomes in the county run below the national picture.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in farming, with others in shops, restaurants and hotels. Across Brown County, the largest workplaces are Ainsworth Community Schools and Brown County Hospital. Very few people work from home, and unemployment has held steady over the past year.
Things to do. Willow Creek runs in or beside town, and Long Pine Creek is a short drive away, so water and shoreline are close at hand. A longer drive brings you to the Niobrara Valley Preserve, a protected area along the Niobrara River, and to Elk Creek, another river in the area.
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- 14%below the poverty line
- 1%work from home
What people in Brown County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Brown County had 1,402 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 63°. About 36 inches of snow and 24 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ainsworth weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brown County
- Ainsworth Community SchoolsSchool district86FTE
- Brown County HospitalCritical access hospital56FTE
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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Long Pine’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 Brown County.
Long Pine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Long Pine$129,462
- 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 Long Pine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Long Pine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.