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Housing in Dawes

A typical Dawes home is worth roughly $49,000

Typical home value
$49K
NE $281K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,000
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$867
NE $3,549

What kind of housing town is Dawes?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Dawes

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You could afford about
$274,000
Typical Dawes home $49K

That covers a typical Dawes home, with $224K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$320
Loan $240Tax $60Insurance $10

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,000 a month here, $680 more than owning.

Where your budget reaches nearby

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Nebraska typical property tax (1.49% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

The homes

82% of Dawes households own their home

Half of Dawes’s homes were built before 1942.

Owners and renters
Own 82%Rent 18%

Nebraska: 67% own.

1942
typical home built · NE 1975
$867
median property tax bill · NE $3,549

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,000

Renters already here pay a median of $738, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$690
1 bedroom$830
2 bedrooms$1,000
3 bedrooms$1,240
4 bedrooms$1,320
18%
of households rent · NE 34%
17
renter households
$738
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Cuming County, NE): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

Next door

Dawes vs. its neighbors

Dawes is the least expensive of 4 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Dawes$49K*—$1,000$66,250
Everett$106K*—$960$46,121
Omaha$53K*—$960$66,932
Bancroft$168K+14%$980$59,896

Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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