A typical Omaha home is worth roughly $53,000
What kind of housing town is Omaha?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 0.8 years of income
Less than across Nebraska (3.7 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Omaha home, with $176K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $960 a month here, $600 more than owning.
How Omaha ranks on affordability →
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Omaha’s typical property tax (1.90% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
A two-bedroom rents for about $960
Renters already here pay a median of $733, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
How Omaha ranks on rent that’s easy to afford →
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Thurston County, NE): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
65% of Omaha households own their home
Half of Omaha’s homes were built before 1963.
Nebraska: 67% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
Omaha vs. its neighbors
Omaha is the 2nd least expensive of 3 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.
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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.
Neighbors talk housing
What Omaha buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
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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.