Trumbull, Nebraska.
Typical home $280,902 (+3.5% in a year). Hastings, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$834 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,409 +3%
- $271,492$280,902 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $70,829 +34%
- $210,072$280,902 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.
- Trumbull$1,474
- 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 Trumbull, NE rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Trumbull, Clay County, Nebraska
Trumbull is a village of 194 people in Clay County. Half its households earn more than $118,083 a year and half less, against $78,986 across Clay County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Clay County was 2.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Clay County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Trumbull is a very small village in Clay County, Nebraska, with a younger population than many small towns in the Plains. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, and household incomes run well above the county's, with relatively few people living below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January highs just above freezing and lows well below it, while summers turn hot by July and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by farming, retail and manufacturing. Across Clay County, the largest workplaces include South Central Nebraska Unified 5, the Agricultural Research Service and Sutton Public Schools. The commute is fairly long, and very few people work from home. Unemployment across the county is low and a little lower than a year ago, though the county has lost a small share of its jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The best-known place nearby is the Hastings Museum, a short drive away. Farther afield, the Stuhr Museum and The Plainsman Museum are both a longer drive away, and the IOOF Opera House is a theatre that is also a longer drive from town.
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- 6%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Clay County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clay County had 2,036 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 29 inches of snow and 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hastings 4N weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clay County
- South Central Nebraska Unified 5School district145FTE
- Agricultural Research ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture83
- Sutton Public SchoolsSchool district70FTE
- Sutton Community HomeNursing homes66
- Harvard Public SchoolsSchool district57FTE
- R Lazy KCattle feedlots39
- George Brothers Propane & FertilizerAgricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 132 people in all across the county; Trumbull has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Trumbull’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Clay County and the Hastings, NE metro.
Trumbull home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Trumbull$280,902
- 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 Trumbull address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Trumbull — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.