Tekamah, Nebraska.
Typical home $210,218 (+5.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$668 (+154%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,885 +5%
- $199,332$210,218 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,405 +39%
- $150,813$210,218 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.
- Tekamah$1,103
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Tekamah, NE rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Tekamah, Burt County, Nebraska
Tekamah is a city of 1,714 people in Burt County. Half its households earn more than $57,074 a year and half less, against $63,685 across Burt County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Burt County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Tekamah is a small city where most homes are lived in by their owners, and a typical home costs less than many homes elsewhere in the country. Household incomes run below the county's, and a fair share of residents live below the poverty line. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might find in larger cities, and winters are cold and snowy while summers turn hot.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming and the building trades close behind. Across Burt County, the largest workplaces include the Tekamah-Herman Community Schools, Oakland Craig Public Schools and Oakland Heights, a skilled nursing facility. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than it was a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it had the year before. The typical commute is fairly long, and only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Loess Hills is a park a longer drive away, and DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area, also a longer drive away. Fort Atkinson, a historic fort, is a longer drive away as well, and is a good choice for anyone curious about the region's past.
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- 722households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Burt County had 1,734 jobs in 2025, 2.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 63°. About 25 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tekamah weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Burt County
- Tekamah-herman Community Schs SchoolsSchool district95FTE
- Oakland Craig Public SchoolsSchool district75FTE
- Oakland HeightsSkilled nursing facilities65
- Lyons-decatur Northeast Schs SchoolsSchool district61FTE
- Accura Healthcare of Tekamah - TekamahSkilled nursing facilities60
- Brehmer MFGAgricultural machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services47
- Central Valley AgFarm supplies merchant wholesalers42
- R GroupCustom architectural millwork and fixtures, manufacturing on a job shop basis23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 257 people in all across the county; Tekamah has two 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Tekamah’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 Burt County.
Tekamah home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tekamah$210,218
- Nebraska$278,299
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Tekamah listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Tekamah32.30%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Tekamah19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Tekamah address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tekamah — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.