A typical Ord home is worth roughly $120,000
Builders were permitted 6 new homes in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Ord?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 2.1 years of income
Less than across Nebraska (3.7 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Ord home, with $90K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $960 a month here, $190 more than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Ord’s typical property tax (1.44% 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 $617, 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 (Garfield County, NE): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
6 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 6 new homes in Ord in 2025, all single-family houses, worth about $3 million to build. That's 2.9 per 1,000 residents, slower than across Nebraska (5.7). Over the past 10 years, Ord has permitted 24 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Ord gained 1 resident while 35 new homes were permitted: about 0 new residents per new home. Building outpaced population growth, which usually means smaller households or homes 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) | 4 | 4 | 0 | $2 million |
| 2025 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $3 million |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $401,000 |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $1 million |
| 2022 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $700,000 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $400,000 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $100,000 |
| 2019 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $1.4 million |
| 2018 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $575,000 |
| 2017 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $480,000 |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $180,000 |
| 2014 | 7 | 7 | 0 | $1.3 million |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $390,000 |
| 2011 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $385,000 |
| 2010 | 13 | 13 | 0 | $1.2 million |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $145,000 |
| 2007 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $530,000 |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $230,000 |
| 2005 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $530,000 |
| 2004 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $340,000 |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $180,000 |
| 2000 | 3 | 1 | 2 | $134,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
70% of Ord households own their home
Half of Ord’s homes were built before 1963.
Nebraska: 67% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.
Neighbors talk housing
What Ord buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits 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.