Scribner, Nebraska.
Typical home $241,865 (+1.7% in a year). Fremont, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$737 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,129 +2%
- $237,737$241,865 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,090 +35%
- $179,776$241,865 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.
- Scribner$1,269
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Scribner, NE rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Scribner, Dodge County, Nebraska
Scribner is a city of 843 people in Dodge County. Half its households earn more than $58,889 a year and half less, against $74,329 across Dodge County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Dodge County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Scribner is a small city in Dodge County, Nebraska, and a place where neighbors tend to know one another. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and household incomes run below the county's. Winters are cold, with heavy snow, and summers turn warm, with rain and melted snow spread across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops and in the building trades. Across Dodge County, some of the largest workplaces are Wholestone Farms, Methodist Fremont Health and Fremont Public Schools. Few people work from home, and a typical drive to work is a modest one.
Things to do. Pebble Creek runs in or beside town, and Schneider's Opera House, a theatre, is a short drive away. For a longer outing, Lake Wanahoo is a lake a longer drive away, and the John G. Neihardt State Historic Site is a protected area, also a longer drive away.
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- 308households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dodge County had 18,382 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 29 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Pt weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dodge County
- Wholestone FarmsFats, animal, produced in slaughtering plants1,244
- Lincoln Premium PoultryChicken hatchery and processing1,182
- Nebraska Methodist Health SystemGeneral medical and surgical hospitals825
- Fremont Public SchoolsSchool district667FTE
- Structural Component SystemsTrusses, wood roof or floor, manufacturing465
- FCC Fremont Contract Carriers - MAIN OFFICE AND TRUCK SHOPGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload411
- Midland UniversityUniversity or college405
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters352
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,362 people in all across the county; Scribner has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Scribner’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 Dodge County and the Fremont, NE metro.
Scribner home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Scribner$241,865
- 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.
- Scribner14
Zip codes with a Scribner address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Scribner — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.