Steinauer, Nebraska.
Typical home $293,878 (+1.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$858 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,959 +1%
- $290,919$293,878 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $73,274 +33%
- $220,604$293,878 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.
- Steinauer$1,542
- 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 Steinauer, NE rose 1.0% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Steinauer, Pawnee County, Nebraska
Steinauer is a village of 59 people in Pawnee County. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% are rented. Unemployment in Pawnee County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 3.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pawnee 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Steinauer is a village in Pawnee County, Nebraska, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, with lows well below freezing, and summers are warm to hot. It is a quiet place where neighbors tend to know one another.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in farming, forestry and mining. Others work in manufacturing or the building trades. Work close to home and in the surrounding countryside is a steady part of village life.
Things to do. For a longer outing, the Delaware River is a river that is a longer drive away. The Tecumseh Opera House is a theatre, also a longer drive away, for an evening out.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
What people in Pawnee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pawnee County had 683 jobs in 2025, 3.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pawnee City weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pawnee County
- Alphia - Pawnee CityPet food, dog and cat, manufacturing145
- Pawnee City Public SchoolsSchool district56FTE
- Lewiston Consolidated SchoolsSchool district47FTE
- Pawnee County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital47FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 145 people in all across the county; Steinauer has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively 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 Steinauer’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 Pawnee County.
Steinauer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Steinauer$293,878
- 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 Steinauer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Steinauer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.