Pierce, Nebraska.
Typical home $292,743 (+4.0% in a year). Norfolk, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$838 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,127 +4%
- $281,617$292,743 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,428 +30%
- $225,315$292,743 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.
- Pierce$1,537
- 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 Pierce, NE rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pierce, Pierce County, Nebraska
Pierce is a city of 1,845 people in Pierce County. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Pierce County was 1.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pierce is a small city in northeast Nebraska, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. Residents are a little younger than in many small towns, and incomes in the county run well above what is typical for rural Nebraska. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July, with a moderate amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing a good number. Across Pierce County, the largest workplaces include Pierce Public Schools, Husker Ag and Osmond General Hospital. Unemployment in the county is low and has eased a little over the past year, and the daily commute is short.
Things to do. In or beside town, Gilman Park Arboretum is a botanical garden for a quiet walk among the plantings, and Willow Creek State Recreation Area is a protected area for time outdoors. A longer drive away, Norfolk Community Theatre offers an evening out at a local stage.
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- 731households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pierce County had 1,968 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 63°. About 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Osmond weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pierce County
- Pierce Public SchoolsSchool district101FTE
- Plainview Public SchoolsSchool district67FTE
- Husker AgDenatured alcohol manufacturing63
- Powersports NationGenerators, motor vehicle electrical, used, merchant wholesalers59
- Osmond Community SchoolsSchool district51FTE
- Osmond General HospitalCritical access hospital45FTE
- A&R Construction CoConcrete paving35
- CHI Health PlainviewCritical access hospital35FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 217 people in all across the county; Pierce 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pierce’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 Pierce County and the Norfolk, NE metro.
Pierce home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pierce$292,743
- 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.
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Zip codes with a Pierce address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pierce — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.