Stanton, Nebraska.
Typical home $255,778 (+7.3% in a year). Norfolk, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$766 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,388 +7%
- $238,390$255,778 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,127 +36%
- $187,651$255,778 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.
- Stanton$1,343
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Stanton, NE rose 7.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stanton, Stanton County, Nebraska
Stanton is a city of 1,520 people in Stanton County. Half its households earn more than $76,500 a year and half less, against $80,687 across Stanton County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Stanton County was 2.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stanton is a small city in northeast Nebraska, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and typical home values sit at a moderate level for the region. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm by July.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Stanton County, the largest workplaces include Stanton Community Schools, PF Services, a hog and pig farming operation, and Greenfiber Norfolk, which makes insulation from purchased paper. Unemployment across the county is low and has eased slightly over the past year, and the county has added jobs. A typical commute is short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. For an evening out, Norfolk Community Theatre and Clarkson Opera House are both theatres, each a longer drive away. Gilman Park Arboretum is a botanical garden, also a longer drive away, and suits a slow walk among the plantings. Rock Creek is a river within a longer drive for those who like to spend time by the water.
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- 654households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Stanton County had 1,284 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Stanton weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Stanton County
- Stanton Community SchoolsSchool district74FTE
- PF ServicesHog and pig farming23
- Greenfiber NorfolkInsulating batts, fills, or blankets made from purchased paper20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 43 people in all across the county; Stanton has one 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Stanton’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 Stanton County and the Norfolk, NE metro.
Stanton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stanton$255,778
- 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.
- Stanton8
Zip codes with a Stanton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stanton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.