Wolbach, Nebraska.
Typical home $206,150 (+4.4% in a year). Grand Island, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$566 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,624 +4%
- $197,526$206,150 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,392 +15%
- $179,757$206,150 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.
- Wolbach$1,082
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Wolbach, NE rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wolbach, Greeley County, Nebraska
Wolbach is a village of 224 people in Greeley County. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Greeley County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Greeley 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wolbach is a small Nebraska village in Greeley County, home to a very small community. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and a typical house costs less than many people would expect to pay elsewhere. Winters are cold and snowy, summers turn warm, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in farming, retail shops and the building trades. Across Greeley County, the largest workplaces are Central Valley Public Schools and Riverside Public Schools. Few people work from home, and the typical trip to work is a fairly long one. Unemployment across the county has been low and slightly lower than a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Loup River is a short drive away and gives residents a place to be outdoors by the water. The State Theatre, a theatre for films and performances, is a longer drive away and suits a day or evening out.
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- 143households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 27 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Greeley County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Greeley County had 628 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 61°. About 30 inches of snow and 26 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Greeley weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Greeley County
- Central Valley Public SchoolsSchool district89FTE
- Riverside Public SchoolsSchool district63FTE
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
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wolbach’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 Greeley County and the Grand Island, NE metro.
Wolbach home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wolbach$206,150
- 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 Wolbach address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wolbach — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Wolbach
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 68873 | Saint Paul | 3,785 | — | $257,963 |
| 68875 | Scotia | 716 | — | $209,395 |
| 68835 | Elba | 459 | — | $210,203 |
| 68882 | Wolbach | 401 | — | $189,392 |