Ruskin, Nebraska.
Typical home $217,302 (+9.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$611 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,189 +9%
- $199,113$217,302 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,393 +16%
- $186,909$217,302 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.
- Ruskin$1,141
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Ruskin, NE rose 9.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ruskin, Nuckolls County, Nebraska
Ruskin is a village of 105 people in Nuckolls County. Half its households earn more than $78,607 a year and half less, against $73,976 across Nuckolls County. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Nuckolls County was 2.0% in August 2026, and the county had 4.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Nuckolls County work in schools and health care, then farming.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ruskin is a village in Nuckolls County, in south-central Nebraska. It is a small community where most people know one another. The county's wide farm fields and open country surround the village.
Work. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and few are rented. Household incomes sit a little above the county's, and most people work in schools, hospitals and social care, farming, forestry and mining, shops, or transport, warehouses and utilities. Few people work from home, and the county added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Pawnee Indian Museum State Historic Site is an archaeological site a longer drive away, for those interested in the region's early history. Lovewell Reservoir, a reservoir also a longer drive away, offers a quiet place by the water. Lawrence Opera House, a theatre a longer drive away, is another option for an evening out.
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- 1%work from home
What people in Nuckolls County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Nuckolls County had 1,636 jobs in 2025, 4.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 65°. About 21 inches of snow and 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Superior weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Nuckolls County
- Brodstone Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital184FTE
- Superior Public SchoolsSchool district97FTE
- GSS SuperiorNursing homes64
- Mid Nebraska Individual ServicesWorkshops for persons with disabilities25
- Mid Nebraska Individual Services ResidentialIntellectual and developmental disability homes25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 114 people in all across the county; Ruskin has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Strong windVery high
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ruskin’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Nuckolls County.
Ruskin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ruskin$217,302
- 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 Ruskin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ruskin — 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.