Randolph, Nebraska.
Typical home $141,888 (+6.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$402 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,330 +6%
- $133,558$141,888 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,546 +22%
- $116,341$141,888 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.
- Randolph$745
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Randolph, NE rose 6.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Randolph, Cedar County, Nebraska
Randolph is a city of 879 people in Cedar County. Half its households earn more than $84,531 a year and half less, against $73,578 across Cedar County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Cedar County was 2.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Randolph is a small city in Cedar County, Nebraska, home to fewer people than most towns of its kind. Household incomes here run above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for a rural place. Homes are priced modestly, and winters are cold, with January the coldest month and snow a regular part of the season, while July brings the warmest days of the year.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, transport and warehouses, and the building trades. Across Cedar County, some of the largest workplaces are Prince Manufacturing, which makes hydraulic cylinders and fluid power equipment, and Randolph Public Schools. Jobs across the county have slipped a little over the past year, though unemployment there remains low and has eased compared with a year earlier.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Willow Creek State Recreation Area is a protected area a longer drive away, and Gilman Park Arboretum is a botanical garden, also a longer drive away. For an evening out, Pospeshil Theatre is another place a longer drive away.
Report a mistake
- 367households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cedar County had 2,707 jobs in 2025, 2.9% fewer 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, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cedar County
- Laurel-concord-coleridge SchoolSchool district92FTE
- Prince ManufacturingHydraulic cylinders, fluid power, manufacturing79
- Hartington Newcastle Public SchoolsSchool district77FTE
- Colonial ManorSkilled nursing facilities71
- Accura Healthcare of HartingtonSkilled nursing facilities65
- Randolph Public SchoolsSchool district47FTE
- Wynot Public SchoolsSchool district42FTE
- Central Valley AgFarm supplies merchant wholesalers28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 243 people in all across the county; Randolph has two 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
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windVery 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 Randolph’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 Cedar County.
Randolph home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Randolph$141,888
- 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.
Zip codes with a Randolph address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Randolph — 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.