South Bend, Nebraska.
Typical home $398,501 (+6.1% in a year). Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,188 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,798 +6%
- $375,704$398,501 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $83,315 +26%
- $315,186$398,501 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.
- South Bend$2,092
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in South Bend, NE rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in South Bend, Cass County, Nebraska
South Bend is a village of 92 people in Cass County. Unemployment in Cass County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cass County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. South Bend is a village in Cass County, Nebraska, and one of the smallest communities in the county. Winters here are cold and snowy, with nights that often drop well below freezing, while summers are warm. The year also brings a good deal of rain and melted snow, so the seasons are clearly marked.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in banking, insurance and property, and in the building trades. Across Cass County, the number of jobs rose slightly over the past year, and unemployment remains low. Relatively few adults in the village hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. Platte River State Park is in or beside town and is a protected area of open land. The Strategic Air and Space Museum is a museum a short drive away. The Lee G. Simmons Wildlife Safari Park, a zoo, is in or beside town.
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- 5%of adults have a degree
What people in Cass County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cass County had 6,206 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 22 inches of snow and 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ashland #2 weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cass County
- Plattsmouth Community SchoolsSchool district225FTE
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores188
- Liquid TruckingBulk mail truck transportation, contract, long-distance119
- KZ ValveSprayers and dusters, farm-type, manufacturing117
- Conestoga Public SchoolsSchool district108FTE
- Louisville Public SchoolsSchool district104FTE
- Liquid TruckingBulk mail truck transportation, contract, long-distance97
- Kiewit Power Constructors CoPower plant construction86
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,022 people in all across the county; South Bend has none 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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in South Bend’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Cass County and the Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
South Bend home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- South Bend$398,501
- 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 South Bend address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls South Bend — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.