A typical Decatur home is worth about $146,000
Up 6.9% in a year, 48% below the Nebraska typical home.
What kind of housing town is Decatur?
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What it takes to buy in Decatur
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That covers a typical Decatur home, with $127K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $960 a month here, $10 more than owning.
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.
Up 42.5% in five years
Faster than Nebraska (25.6%).
Show as a table
| January | Decatur | Nebraska |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $66,000 | $157,000 |
| 2018 | $72,000 | $167,000 |
| 2019 | $79,000 | $176,000 |
| 2020 | $83,000 | $187,000 |
| 2021 | $99,000 | $205,000 |
| 2022 | $106,000 | $227,000 |
| 2023 | $110,000 | $248,000 |
| 2024 | $115,000 | $259,000 |
| 2025 | $140,000 | $270,000 |
| 2026 | $141,000 | $278,000 |
| August 2026 | $146,000 | $281,000 |
A typical Decatur home worth $64K in September 2016 is worth about $146K today.
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
A two-bedroom rents for about $960
Renters already here pay a median of $595, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Burt County, NE): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
No new homes permitted in 2025
No permits for new homes were issued in Decatur in 2025. The last year with any was 2024 (2 new homes).
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Decatur's population fell by 71 even though 8 new homes were permitted. Homes are holding fewer people: households are getting smaller, or more homes are used part of the year. Across Nebraska: 1.8 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $150,000 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $170,000 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $210,000 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $1.2 million |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $350,000 |
| 2010 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $182,000 |
| 2009 | 6 | 4 | 2 | $278,000 |
| 2008 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $170,000 |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
1 of Decatur’s houses are on the National Register
Half of Decatur’s homes were built before 1966.
Nebraska: 67% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places.
On the market in Decatur
Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.
Neighbors talk housing
What Decatur buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.