Mead, Nebraska.
Typical home $300,142 (+5.2% in a year). Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$896 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,875 +5%
- $285,267$300,142 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $71,231 +31%
- $228,911$300,142 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.
- Mead$1,575
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Mead, NE rose 5.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mead, Saunders County, Nebraska
Mead is a village of 617 people in Saunders County. Half its households earn more than $80,272 a year and half less, against $94,066 across Saunders County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Saunders County was 2.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Saunders 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mead is a village where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, a far larger share than is typical across the country. Household incomes run below the county's, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while July brings warm summer days and the year is moderately wet.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades and manufacturing also employing many. Across Saunders County, larger workplaces include Wahoo Public Schools, Saunders Medical Center and JEO Consulting Group. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the commute is a fairly short one for most people.
Things to do. Lake Wanahoo is a lake a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Elkhorn River, the Joslyn Art Museum and Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium.
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- 229households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Saunders County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Saunders County had 6,040 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 64°. About 20 inches of snow and 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mead 6S weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Saunders County
- JEO Consulting GroupCivil engineering services450
- Wahoo Public SchoolsSchool district169FTE
- Ashland-greenwood Public SchsSchool district150FTE
- Saunders Medical CenterCritical access hospital140FTE
- Cedar Bluffs Public SchoolsSchool district87FTE
- Darling InternationalRendering plants86
- Yutan Public SchoolsSchool district78FTE
- OSC (Omaha Steel Casting)Steel foundries65
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,167 people in all across the county; Mead has one 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mead’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 Saunders County and the Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
Mead home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mead$300,142
- 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 Mead address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mead — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.