Wahoo, Nebraska.
Typical home $287,830 (+4.5% in a year). Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$850 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,473 +5%
- $275,357$287,830 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,035 +30%
- $220,795$287,830 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.
- Wahoo$1,511
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Wahoo, NE rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wahoo, Saunders County, Nebraska
Wahoo is a city of 4,818 people in Saunders County. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Saunders County was 2.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wahoo is a small city and the seat of Saunders County, Nebraska. It has a fairly young population, with a median age on the youthful side for a place its size, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, with January highs hovering around freezing, and summers are warm.
Work. People in Wahoo work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail, and professional and business services also employing many residents. Among the biggest workplaces in town are Wahoo Public Schools, JEO Consulting Group and OSC (Omaha Steel Casting). Commutes are fairly short, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Lake Wanahoo sits in or beside town, a convenient spot for time by the water. A longer drive away are the Strategic Air and Space Museum and Lee G. Simmons Wildlife Safari Park, a museum and a zoo, and Eugene T. Mahoney State Park, a protected area for walking and being outdoors.
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- 1,892households
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Saunders County had 6,040 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 64°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wahoo weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wahoo
- JEO Consulting GroupCivil engineering services450
- Wahoo Public SchoolsSchool district169FTE
- OSC (Omaha Steel Casting)Steel foundries65
- SpartanNashSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores50
- Wahoo Concrete ProductPrestressed concrete products manufacturing20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 585 people in all. 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wahoo’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 Saunders County and the Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
Wahoo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wahoo$287,830
- Nebraska$278,299
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Wahoo16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wahoo7
Zip codes with a Wahoo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wahoo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.