Minden, Nebraska.
Typical home $203,964 (+8.4% in a year). Kearney, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$599 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,856 +8%
- $188,107$203,964 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,714 +38%
- $148,250$203,964 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.
- Minden$1,071
- 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 Minden, NE rose 8.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Minden, Kearney County, Nebraska
Minden is a city of 3,118 people in Kearney County. Half its households earn more than $68,449 a year and half less, against $78,631 across Kearney County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Kearney County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Minden is a small city in Kearney County, home to a good number of older and middle-aged residents. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Incomes in town run below the county's, and few residents live below the poverty line.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and banks, insurance and property close behind. Across Kearney County, the largest workplaces include Royal Engineered Composites, which makes aircraft assemblies and parts, Minden Public Schools, and Kearney County Health Services, a critical access hospital. The commute is short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Pioneer Village, a museum in or beside town, is the best known place nearby, and the W. T. Thorne Building, a theatre, is also in or beside town. A longer drive takes you to Fort Kearny, a fort, or to the Museum of Nebraska Art. Winters are cold and snowy, and summers turn warm, so the seasons shape what is easy to visit.
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- 1,327households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kearney County had 2,060 jobs in 2025, 3.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 25 inches of snow and 26 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Minden weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kearney County
- Royal Engineered CompositesAircraft assemblies, subassemblies, and parts manufacturing172
- Minden Public SchoolsSchool district118FTE
- Mosaic AxtellIntellectual and developmental disability intermediate care facilities118
- Kearney County Health ServicesCritical access hospital73FTE
- Axtell Community SchoolsSchool district67FTE
- Minden Machine ShopCattle feeding and watering equipment manufacturing65
- KAAPA EthanolDenatured alcohol manufacturing40
- Fort Kearny ConsolidatedBeef cattle feedlots36
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 504 people in all across the county; Minden has two 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
- LightningVery high
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Minden’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 Kearney County and the Kearney, NE metro.
Minden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Minden$203,964
- Nebraska$278,299
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Minden11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Minden6
Zip codes with a Minden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Minden — 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.