Superior, Nebraska.
Typical home $94,038 (+6.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$256 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,854 +7%
- $88,184$94,038 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $9,333 +11%
- $84,705$94,038 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.
- Superior$494
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 33 years.
Typical home values in Superior, NE rose 6.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Superior, Nuckolls County, Nebraska
Superior is a city of 1,825 people in Nuckolls County. Half its households earn more than $63,810 a year and half less, against $73,976 across Nuckolls County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Nuckolls County was 2.0% in August 2026, and the county had 4.9% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Superior is a small city in Nuckolls County, Nebraska, where most homes are lived in by their owners and typical home values are modest. The population skews older, and household incomes sit below the county's as a whole. Winters are cold, with January the chilliest month, and summers turn hot in July. Snow is a regular part of the cold season, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, transport and warehouses, and professional and business services also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Superior are Brodstone Memorial Hospital, Superior Public Schools and GSS Superior, a nursing home. Unemployment in Nuckolls County is low, and the county has more jobs than it did a year earlier. Few residents work from home, and a four-year degree is less common than across much of the country.
Things to do. Lovewell Reservoir is a short drive away and the closest place for time on the water. A longer drive brings you to the Pawnee Indian Museum State Historic Site, an archaeological site that tells part of the region's history. Also a longer drive off, Wolf Creek is a river for a quiet day outdoors.
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- 842households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Nuckolls County had 1,636 jobs in 2025, 4.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 65°. About 21 inches of snow and 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Superior weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Superior
- Brodstone Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital184FTE
- Superior Public SchoolsSchool district97FTE
- GSS SuperiorNursing homes64
- Mid Nebraska Individual ServicesWorkshops for persons with disabilities25
- Mid Nebraska Individual Services ResidentialIntellectual and developmental disability homes25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 114 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Strong windVery high
- HailVery high
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Superior’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 Nuckolls County.
Superior home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Superior$94,038
- 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.
- Superior14
Zip codes with a Superior address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Superior — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.