Plainview, Nebraska.
Typical home $154,488 (-0.6% in a year). Norfolk, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$378 (+87%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $885 -1%
- $155,373$154,488 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $14,279 +10%
- $140,209$154,488 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.
- Plainview$811
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 36 years.
Typical home values in Plainview, NE fell 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Plainview, Pierce County, Nebraska
Plainview is a city of 1,282 people in Pierce County. Half its households earn more than $54,766 a year and half less, against $72,357 across Pierce County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Plainview is a small city in Pierce County, Nebraska, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold, with highs that stay close to freezing in January and a good deal of snow, while July brings warm summer days, and the year's rain and melted snow is moderate.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in the building trades, in shops, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Pierce County, some of the largest workplaces are Pierce Public Schools, Plainview Public Schools and Husker Ag. Unemployment in the county is low and a little lower than a year ago, and a typical commute is short.
Things to do. For time outdoors, the nearest well-known names on the list are Merriman Creek and Cottonwood Creek, both rivers a longer drive away. Willow Creek State Recreation Area, a protected area, is also a longer drive from town. Anyone after an evening out might make the same kind of trip to Pospeshil Theatre.
Report a mistake
- 539households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 7%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 36 inches of snow and 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Creighton weather station, 10 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; Plainview 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
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively 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 Plainview’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.
Plainview home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Plainview$154,488
- 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.
- Plainview8
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Plainview address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Plainview — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Plainview
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 68769 | Plainview | 1,722 | — | $155,676 |
| 68720 | Brunswick | 250 | — | $314,533 |