Murray, Nebraska.
Typical home $274,993 (+3.2% in a year). Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$816 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,633 +3%
- $266,360$274,993 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $63,879 +30%
- $211,113$274,993 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.
- Murray$1,443
- 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 Murray, NE rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Murray, Cass County, Nebraska
Murray is a village of 480 people in Cass County. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Cass County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Murray is a village in Cass County, Nebraska, and a very small one, where most homes are lived in by their owners, far more than in a typical American town. Incomes in the village sit a good deal lower than the county's, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while summers turn properly hot in July and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, manufacturing, and banks, insurance and property. Across Cass County, the largest workplaces include Plattsmouth Community Schools, Hy-Vee and KZ Valve. Unemployment in the county is low and about where it stood a year ago, and the county has added a few jobs over the past year. A typical commute takes a fair while, and only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. The Walker Gilmore Site, an archaeological site, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium, and Platte River State Park, a protected area good for a day outdoors.
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- 189households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cass County had 6,206 jobs in 2025, 1.0% 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 65°. About 24 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Glenwood 3SW weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cass County
- Plattsmouth Community SchoolsSchool district225FTE
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores188
- Liquid TruckingBulk mail truck transportation, contract, long-distance119
- KZ ValveSprayers and dusters, farm-type, manufacturing117
- Conestoga Public SchoolsSchool district108FTE
- Louisville Public SchoolsSchool district104FTE
- Liquid TruckingBulk mail truck transportation, contract, long-distance97
- Kiewit Power Constructors CoPower plant construction86
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,022 people in all across the county; Murray has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Murray’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 Cass County and the Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
Murray home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Murray$274,993
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Murray address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Murray — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.