Counties / Nebraska / Logan County

Logan County, NE

FIPS 31113 · population 773 · part of North Platte, NE

$190k
Zillow home value · 2026-06
The numbers

What this county costs and earns

Everything here joins on the county FIPS code, so each figure comes from the agency that publishes it with no name matching in between.

Zillow home value
$190k
▲ 0.8% year over year
Zillow ZHVI · direct
ACS median gross rent
$761
occupied-unit survey; not current asking rent
Census ACS · surveyed
Gross yield
n/a
gross yield cannot be computed without measured market rent
requires both measured price and measured rent
HUD 2-bed standard
$961
the Section 8 payment standard
HUD Fair Market Rent · direct
Independent price check

Do two methods point the same way?

Zillow estimates a current home value. FHFA tracks repeat mortgage transactions. Their growth rates should be read side by side, not averaged.

One annual series is unavailable
FHFA five-year cumulativen/anot annualized · through n/a
0%ZILLOW ZHVI2026-06+0.8%FHFA HPIperiod n/an/a
Annual changes use different methods and may use different periods. The comparison checks direction and magnitude; it does not create a blended estimate. Zillow county ZHVI pulled 2026-07-26; FHFA annual county HPI pulled 2026-07-28.
Owner-reported value$175k
Surveyed gross rent$761
Rent burden 30%+42.5%
Median year built1956
Housing composition

Who occupies the stock—and what it is

ACS 2024 5-year
9.4%vacant
330estimated housing units
Occupied tenure21.1% renter
owner 78.9%renter 21.1%
Structure mix93.9% single-family
Single-family 93.9%20+ units 0.0%Mobile home 5.8%Other 0.3%
ACS estimates describe the standing housing stock and occupied tenure. They do not measure current listings, transaction prices or asking rents.

Survey source: Census ACS 5-year — county housing value, tenure and stock · ACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30. These values describe different housing universes and are not combined into gross yield.

Annual average covered jobs166▲ 1.2% from the prior annual release
Covered establishments38annual average reporting locations
Average weekly wage$847▲ 6.5% from the prior annual release
Largest private supersectorTrade, transportation, and utilities33.7% of disclosed private covered jobs
Local labor base

Jobs, pay and private-sector concentration

2025
0%COVERED JOBS+1.2%WEEKLY WAGE+6.5%Trade, transportation, and utilities33.7%
Annual QCEW counts cover jobs located at reporting establishments. The industry share uses disclosed private covered employment; it is not a resident-employment measure or a forecast.

Workplace source: BLS QCEW — county employment and wages · annual county employment and wages 2025 vs 2024 · pulled 2026-07-31. QCEW counts covered jobs located in the county, not employed residents or the metro score’s CES/LAUS series.

County brief

What the local evidence says

01Decision frame

Logan County is a thin-evidence, small-base underwriting case: its Zillow county median home value was $189,845 in 2026-06, up 0.83% year over year, while rentable cash flow and listing-market liquidity are not published. The central tension is a modestly rising value measure alongside insufficient evidence to test income or exit assumptions. Investors able to verify rent, flood exposure, insurance and comparable transactions property by property should investigate; those relying on county averages alone should be cautious.

02Housing economics

Market rent is not published, so gross yield cannot be calculated. The $961 two-bedroom HUD Fair Market Rent is a payment standard, not an estimate of asking rent and cannot substitute for rent in a yield calculation. The effective property-tax rate is 0.98%, with median annual tax of $1,712; both require parcel-level confirmation because county medians do not establish a subject property’s bill. Inland flood is the dominant hazard, and modeled climate loss equals 0.13% of building value annually. That modeled ratio identifies a carrying-cost and insurance diligence issue, not a dollar loss or a property-specific damage estimate.

03Demand & competition

QCEW reports 166 annual-average covered jobs located at county workplaces in 2025, up 1.22%, with a $847 average weekly covered-worker wage, up 6.54%. Trade, transportation, and utilities was the largest disclosed private supersector, with 29 jobs and a 33.72% share of disclosed private employment; it is not a description of the entire county economy. Tax-return migration evidence records 23 outbound households with average AGI of $46,000, but no inbound count or income is supplied, so net migration cannot be determined. Investor participation was 0% across two reported purchases, too little activity to establish the level of buyer competition or owner-occupant demand.

04Risk & next checks

No FHFA annual repeat-transaction HPI observation is published, so it cannot confirm or challenge Zillow’s direction. No Realtor.com median listing price, active listings, days on market or price-reduction share is supplied; therefore visible MLS supply, seller concessions and marketing time cannot be assessed. Missing market rent, vacancy, operating expenses, sales comparables and flood-insurance terms prevent a cash-flow, resale-liquidity or property-specific hazard conclusion. Next checks are subject-unit rents, lease-up evidence, insurance quotes, flood maps, tax bills and recent arm’s-length sales.

Cities & communities

Where people live within Logan County

Census-recognized incorporated places and CDPs that intersect this county. The list does not pretend to include every neighborhood or informal community.

Population scale

Largest Census places

ACS 2024 5-year
Stapleton village343Gandy village42
Bars use total place population, not a county-share estimate. An asterisk marks a place that crosses a county line.
Official directory

2 Census places

Population
  1. 01
    Stapleton villageIncorporated place
    343
  2. 02
    Gandy villageIncorporated place
    42

Population is the total place-wide ACS estimate, not an allocated county share. A place crossing a county line is labelled explicitly. Source: Census ACS 5-year — cities and communities · ACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30.

Risk, demand and competition

The three things a price does not tell you

01
Risk & carrying costFEMA NRI + Census ACS
Dominant hazardinland flooding

0.132% of building value expected lost per year

Effective property tax0.98%

$1,712 median annual bill

02
DemandIRS SOI household flows
Net migrationn/a

Household flow not published

Arriving vs leaving incomen/a

Income flow not published

03
CompetitionHMDA financed purchases
Purchases by investors0.0%

0 of 2 mortgages

investorother financed
No rent index is published for this county.Zillow’s county rent series does not cover every county, and estimating one from a neighbouring county would be a guess wearing a number’s clothes. Everything above is measured here; for a rent figure, the North Platte, NE page covers the wider market.
Same metro

The other counties in North Platte, NE

A metro is an average of these. Which side of a county line a property sits on can change the tax bill, the hazard profile and the tenant pool.

CountyPopulationPriceRentYieldHazard
Logan County773$190kn/an/ainland flooding
Lincoln County33,802$229k$1,1366.0%inland flooding
Bear case

What can break the county thesis

  1. Actual achievable rent, vacancy and operating expenses may not support carrying costs.
  2. Property-specific flood exposure, insurance availability and repair history may differ materially from the county-level hazard measure.
  3. Small purchase, migration and employment observations may not represent durable buyer or tenant demand.
Underwriting questions

Before pricing a property

Can gross yield be calculated from this record?

No. Market rent is not published, and HUD Fair Market Rent cannot be used as market asking rent.

Does the record establish net migration into or out of the county?

No. It provides outbound tax-return households and their average AGI, but no inbound migration measure.

Does the investor-purchase result prove weak buyer competition?

No. No investor purchases are reported, but the total reported purchase count is too limited to establish broader buyer competition.