Stromsburg, Nebraska.
Typical home $199,100 (+3.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$600 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,015 +4%
- $192,086$199,100 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,089 +34%
- $149,011$199,100 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.
- Stromsburg$1,045
- 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 Stromsburg, NE rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stromsburg, Polk County, Nebraska
Stromsburg is a city of 1,143 people in Polk County. Half its households earn more than $58,988 a year and half less, against $69,768 across Polk County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Polk County was 2.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stromsburg is a small city in Polk County, Nebraska, where residents are older than in many American towns. Incomes run below the county's, and most homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly warm by July. A fair amount of snow falls each year, and rain and melted snow add up to a moderate yearly total.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and other services also employing a good number. Across Polk County, some of the largest workplaces are Midwest Covenant Home, a nursing care home for the elderly, Double Dutch Dairy, and the Shelby - Rising City Public Schools. Commutes are of moderate length, and some people work from home. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places.
Things to do. The best-known places nearby are theatres: Clem's Opera House, Surprise Opera House and the State Theatre, each a longer drive away. Lee's Legendary Marbles and Collectables, a museum, is also a longer drive away, and anyone after open water can head to Morning Star Lake, likewise a longer drive.
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- 467households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Polk County had 1,418 jobs in 2025, 1.4% 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 86° and lows near 65°. About 29 inches of snow and 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Osceola weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Polk County
- Midwest Covenant HomeHomes for the elderly with nursing care90
- Double Dutch DairyMilk production, dairy cattle74
- Shelby - Rising City Public SchoolsSchool district74FTE
- Cross County Community SchoolsSchool district70FTE
- High Plains Community SchoolsSchool district57FTE
- Annie Jeffrey Mem. Cnty Hlth. CTRCritical access hospital47FTE
- GSS Osceola CenterNursing homes47
- Osceola Public SchoolsSchool district45FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 211 people in all across the county; Stromsburg has one 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
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Stromsburg’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 Polk County.
Stromsburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stromsburg$199,100
- 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.
- Stromsburg8
Zip codes with a Stromsburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stromsburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.