Saint Edward, Nebraska.
Typical home $213,827 (-0.0% in a year). Columbus, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$598 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $30 -0%
- $213,857$213,827 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,791 +29%
- $166,036$213,827 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.
- Saint Edward$1,122
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Saint Edward, NE fell 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Saint Edward, Boone County, Nebraska
Saint Edward is a city of 725 people in Boone County. Half its households earn more than $53,587 a year and half less, against $74,947 across Boone County. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Boone County was 2.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Boone County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Saint Edward is a very small city in Boone County, Nebraska, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and a fair amount of snow falls each year; summers turn warm by July.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with farming, shops and manufacturing also giving people a living. Among the largest workplaces in Saint Edward are ST Edward Public Schools, Cloverlodge Care Center and E&F Management. The typical commute is moderate, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Morning Star Lake and Olson Nature Preserve are the nearest named places. The lake is a spot for fishing and boating, and the preserve is a protected area for walking and watching wildlife. Both are a longer drive away.
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- 252households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 22 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Boone County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Boone County had 2,439 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 29 inches of snow and 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Genoa West weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Saint Edward
- E&F ManagementAuctions, internet retail222
- Cloverlodge Care CenterSkilled nursing facilities51
- St Edward Public SchoolsSchool district40FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 273 people in all. 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Saint Edward’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 Boone County and the Columbus, NE metro.
Saint Edward home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Saint Edward$213,827
- 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 Saint Edward address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Saint Edward — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.