Wausa, Nebraska.
Typical home $206,819 (+6.5% in a year). Norfolk, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$468 (+76%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $12,586 +6%
- $194,233$206,819 since Sep 2025
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.
- Wausa$1,086
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Wausa, NE rose 6.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wausa, Knox County, Nebraska
Wausa is a village of 592 people in Knox County. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Knox County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wausa is a small village in Knox County, Nebraska, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Few residents live below the poverty line, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and sub-freezing lows, while July brings warm days, and precipitation falls as a mix of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and shops also employing many people. Across Knox County, Michael Foods, which produces eggs, and the Creighton Community Public Schools district are among the largest workplaces. Most people commute a moderate distance, and very few work from home.
Things to do. The Pospeshil Theatre is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Lewis and Clark Lake, a reservoir, and to the James River. The Missouri National Recreational River, a protected area, is also a longer drive from the village.
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- 307households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Knox County had 2,900 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 63°. About 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Osmond weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Knox County
- Michael FoodsEgg production, chicken176
- Isanti Community SchoolSchool district91FTE
- Avera Creighton HospitalCritical access hospital72FTE
- Creighton Community Public SchoolsSchool district66FTE
- Mark MillerCattle feedlots62
- Crofton Community SchoolsSchool district59FTE
- Alpine VillageSkilled nursing facilities50
- Niobrara Public SchoolsSchool district48FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 432 people in all across the county; Wausa has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wausa’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 Knox County and the Norfolk, NE metro.
Wausa home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wausa$206,819
- 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.
- Wausa5
Zip codes with a Wausa address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wausa — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Wausa
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 68718 | Bloomfield | 1,603 | — | $169,467 |
| 68765 | Osmond | 1,123 | — | $224,131 |
| 68786 | Wausa | 1,080 | — | $199,984 |