Minatare, Nebraska.
Typical home $229,062 (+6.8% in a year). Scottsbluff, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$702 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,571 +7%
- $214,491$229,062 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,961 +37%
- $167,101$229,062 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.
- Minatare$1,202
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Minatare, NE rose 6.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Minatare, Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska
Minatare is a city of 715 people in Scotts Bluff County. Unemployment in Scotts Bluff County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Scotts Bluff County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Minatare is a very small city in western Nebraska, in Scotts Bluff County. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are hot, and the year brings little rain and melted snow, so the climate is on the dry side. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than is typical, and the trip to work is a short one for most people.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services. Across Scotts Bluff County, the largest workplaces include Regional West Medical Center, Scottsbluff Public Schools and Walmart. Unemployment across the county has held steady over the past year, while the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Lake Minatare Lighthouse, a tourist attraction, and the North Platte National Wildlife Refuge are both a short drive away. The Marquis Opera House, a theatre, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Scotts Bluff National Monument is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 15%of adults have a degree
- 16 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Scotts Bluff County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Scotts Bluff County had 15,915 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 42° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 60°. About 42 inches of snow and 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Scottsbluff Heilig Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Scotts Bluff County
- Regional West Medical CenterGeneral hospital774FTE
- Scottsbluff Public SchoolsSchool district511FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters385
- Western Nebraska Community CollegeTwo-year college318
- Western Sugar CooperativeGranulated beet sugar manufacturing305
- Gering Public SchoolsSchool district265FTE
- Heritage EstatesSkilled nursing facilities181
- Northfield Retirement CommunitiesSkilled nursing facilities137
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 35 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,267 people in all across the county; Minatare has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Minatare’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 Scotts Bluff County and the Scottsbluff, NE metro.
Minatare home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Minatare$229,062
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Minatare7
Zip codes with a Minatare address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Minatare — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.