North Bend, Nebraska.
Typical home $278,825 (+4.7% in a year). Fremont, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$848 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,425 +5%
- $266,400$278,825 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,742 +38%
- $202,083$278,825 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.
- North Bend$1,463
- 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 North Bend, NE rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in North Bend, Dodge County, Nebraska
North Bend is a city of 1,279 people in Dodge County. Half its households earn more than $85,882 a year and half less, against $74,329 across Dodge County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Dodge County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. North Bend is a small city in Dodge County, Nebraska, with a population that skews a little older than the typical American town. Household incomes here run higher than across the county, and only a small share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn properly warm by July and precipitation is moderate through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Dodge County, some of the largest workplaces are Wholestone Farms, Methodist Fremont Health and Fremont Public Schools. Jobs across the county dipped slightly last year, and unemployment there has stayed low. Commutes are fairly short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Lake Wanahoo is a lake a longer drive away, and Fremont Lakes State Recreation Area is a protected area, also a longer drive away. Those who enjoy live performance can head to the Love-Larson Opera House, a theatre that is likewise a longer drive from town.
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- 420households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dodge County had 18,382 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 34 inches of snow and 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Weston 3NW weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dodge County
- Wholestone FarmsFats, animal, produced in slaughtering plants1,244
- Lincoln Premium PoultryChicken hatchery and processing1,182
- Nebraska Methodist Health SystemGeneral medical and surgical hospitals825
- Fremont Public SchoolsSchool district667FTE
- Structural Component SystemsTrusses, wood roof or floor, manufacturing465
- FCC Fremont Contract Carriers - MAIN OFFICE AND TRUCK SHOPGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload411
- Midland UniversityUniversity or college405
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters352
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,362 people in all across the county; North Bend has one of its own. School districts come 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in North Bend’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 Dodge County and the Fremont, NE metro.
North Bend home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- North Bend$278,825
- 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.
- North Bend13
Zip codes with a North Bend address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls North Bend — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.