Union, Nebraska.
Typical home $358,450 (+2.5% in a year). Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,034 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,793 +3%
- $349,657$358,450 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,179 +27%
- $283,271$358,450 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.
- Union$1,881
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Union, NE rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Union, Cass County, Nebraska
Union is a village of 195 people in Cass County. Unemployment in Cass County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cass County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Union is a very small village in Cass County, Nebraska, where neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here are valued well above what many small Nebraska communities see, and household incomes across Cass County are on the comfortable side. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while summers turn properly warm, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in banks, insurance and property, or in the building trades. Across Cass County, some of the largest workplaces are Plattsmouth Community Schools, Hy-Vee and Conestoga Public Schools. Relatively few adults hold a four-year degree, a small share work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. A short drive away, Arbor Lodge State Historical Park and Arboretum is a botanical garden, and Steinhart Park is a park for a simple afternoon outdoors. The Walker Gilmore Site, an archaeological site, is also a short drive away. For a bigger outing, Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium is a longer drive away.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 25 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Cass County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cass County had 6,206 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 24 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Nebraska City 2NW weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cass County
- Plattsmouth Community SchoolsSchool district225FTE
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores188
- Liquid TruckingBulk mail truck transportation, contract, long-distance119
- KZ ValveSprayers and dusters, farm-type, manufacturing117
- Conestoga Public SchoolsSchool district108FTE
- Louisville Public SchoolsSchool district104FTE
- Liquid TruckingBulk mail truck transportation, contract, long-distance97
- Kiewit Power Constructors CoPower plant construction86
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,022 people in all across the county; Union has none 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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Union’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 Cass County and the Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
Union home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Union$358,450
- 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.
- Union6
Zip codes with a Union address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Union — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.