to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$640 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,987 +2%
- $214,840$218,827 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,770 +27%
- $172,057$218,827 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.
- Polk County$1,149
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Polk County, NE rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Polk County, NE home values
Against the state and national figures. Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Polk County$218,827
- Nebraska$278,299
- United States$366,157
Property taxes
The Census’s survey of what owners say they pay. Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s.
Got this county's reappraisal notice in hand? Check your property taxes — anonymous, and it helps close the two-year data gap.
The reassessment wedge (index, Dec 2017 = 100)
Home values move monthly; tax bills move when the assessor catches up. The space between the lines is the catch-up still to come — tax data is ACS, roughly two years behind, and that lag is the point. Where a roll segment appears, named by its release year, it bridges to the median bill on current assessment rolls (AssessorSearch Data Lab, a different instrument, shown only where it agrees with ACS levels).
- Home value176
- Median tax bill127
Zip codes in Polk County, NE
By share of each zip's area inside this county — a zip straddling a boundary appears here and in its neighbour, which is the truth of it.
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | City activate to sort by City | In county sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | 1-yr Δ activate to sort by 1-yr Δ | Home value activate to sort by Home value | 1-yr Δ activate to sort by 1-yr Δ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 68651 | Osceola | 100% | — | — | $221,489 | -0.2% |
| 68666 | Stromsburg | 98% | — | — | $208,588 | +3.5% |
| 68662 | Shelby | 94% | — | — | $224,702 | +2.1% |
| 68654 | Polk | 63% | — | — | $169,293 | -1.1% |
| 68367 | Gresham | 36% | — | — | $217,494 | +4.6% |
| 68663 | Silver Creek | 30% | — | — | $187,224 | -3.9% |
| 68628 | Clarks | 19% | — | — | $302,062 | +4.9% |
| 68316 | Benedict | 12% | — | — | $231,161 | +0.9% |
| 68601 | Columbus | 11% | $1,406 | — | $272,286 | +2.0% |
| 68658 | Rising City | 1% | — | — | $241,734 | +6.6% |