Counties / Nebraska / Sarpy County

Sarpy County, NE

FIPS 31153 · population 197,389 · part of Omaha, NE

$361k
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
$361k
▲ 2.1% year over year
Zillow ZHVI · direct
Median asking rent
$1,466
▲ 1.8% year over year
Zillow ZORI · direct
Gross yield
4.9%
annual rent ÷ price, before costs
derived: rent × 12 ÷ price ✓
HUD 2-bed standard
$1,368
market rent is 1.07x the 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.

Both annual signals move in the same direction
FHFA five-year cumulative+47.8%not annualized · through 2025
0%ZILLOW ZHVI2026-06+2.1%FHFA HPI2025+3.1%
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$314k
Surveyed gross rent$1,334
Rent burden 30%+44.0%
Median year built1996
Housing composition

Who occupies the stock—and what it is

ACS 2024 5-year
3.5%vacant
76,780estimated housing units
Occupied tenure29.6% renter
owner 70.3%renter 29.6%
Structure mix78.2% single-family
Single-family 78.2%20+ units 8.4%Mobile home 0.9%Other 12.5%
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 jobs83,420▲ 3.1% from the prior annual release
Covered establishments4,826annual average reporting locations
Average weekly wage$1,160▲ 2.8% from the prior annual release
Largest private supersectorTrade, transportation, and utilities34.2% of disclosed private covered jobs
Local labor base

Jobs, pay and private-sector concentration

2025
0%COVERED JOBS+3.1%WEEKLY WAGE+2.8%Trade, transportation, and utilities34.2%
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

Sarpy County’s underwriting tension is a published 4.87% gross yield on a $361,009 median home value, against carrying-cost and inland-flood uncertainty that can consume a meaningful share of rent. The independently measured $1,466 monthly median asking rent makes a revenue screen possible, but the yield is before taxes, insurance, vacancy, repairs and management. Investigate acquisitions with property-level flood and expense records; buyers relying on headline yield or a county average should be cautious.

02Housing economics

In Zillow’s 2026-06 county observation, median home value increased 2.06% year over year while median asking rent increased 1.79%, leaving income growth slightly behind value growth. HUD’s two-bedroom FMR is a payment standard rather than asking rent and must not replace the published market-rent measure. The 1.74% effective property-tax rate adds a known burden to that gross-yield screen. Separately, the FHFA repeat-transaction HPI increased 3.08% in 2025; it corroborates an upward price direction but is not a home value and cannot be blended with Zillow’s differently dated measure.

03Demand & competition

Realtor.com’s MLS listing market shows 540 active listings, down 16.49% year over year, and a pending-to-active ratio of 113.99%. That is evidence of constrained visible supply and transaction pipeline, not closed-sale pricing or stand-alone proof of buyer demand; marketing time and seller reductions still require submarket review. QCEW’s annual covered workplace employment increased 3.14%; Trade, transportation, and utilities is the largest disclosed private supersector, not the whole economy. Net migration was 759 tax-return households, although inbound movers’ average AGI was $1,945 below outbound movers’. The supplied non-occupant purchase-mortgage segment is 209 of 3,251, or 6.43%, defining one buyer segment rather than all competition.

04Risk & next checks

The modeled climate-loss ratio is 0.13% of building value per year and aligns with inland flood as the dominant hazard, but it is not an insurance quote or a property loss estimate. Missing flood-zone, elevation, claims, premium, deductible and mitigation data prevent a site-level flood-cost conclusion. Missing achieved rents, lease terms, vacancy, operating costs, financing terms, condition and closed-sale comparables prevent net-cash-flow and exit-value conclusions. Verify these records alongside tax bills and MLS comparables before treating county evidence as parcel underwriting.

Cities & communities

Where people live within Sarpy 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
Bellevue city64.5KPapillion city25.2KLa Vista city16.6KChalco CDP10.6KGretna city9.2KOffutt AFB CDP6.1KSpringfield city1.6KLinoma Beach CDP99
Bars use total place population, not a county-share estimate. An asterisk marks a place that crosses a county line.
Official directory

12 Census places

Population
  1. 01
    Bellevue cityIncorporated place
    64,510
  2. 02
    Papillion cityIncorporated place
    25,244
  3. 03
    La Vista cityIncorporated place
    16,563
  4. 04
    Chalco CDPCensus-designated place
    10,595
  5. 05
    Gretna cityIncorporated place
    9,193
  6. 06
    Offutt AFB CDPCensus-designated place
    6,074
  7. 07
    Springfield cityIncorporated place
    1,595
  8. 08
    Linoma Beach CDPCensus-designated place
    99
  9. 09
    Richfield CDPCensus-designated place
    47
  10. 10
    Beacon View CDPCensus-designated place
    36
  11. 11
    Melia CDPCensus-designated place
    22
  12. 12
    La Platte CDPCensus-designated place
    0

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

0.133% of building value expected lost per year

Effective property tax1.74%

$5,473 median annual bill

02
DemandIRS SOI household flows
Net migration+759

8,168 in · 7,409 out

Arriving vs leaving income−$1,945

$68,347 arriving · $70,292 leaving

03
CompetitionHMDA financed purchases
Purchases by investors6.4%

209 of 3,251 mortgages

investorother financed
Current listing pressure

What sellers and visible supply are doing

Realtor.com® Economic Research · county inventory 2026-06 · pulled 2026-07-28
Active listings540▼ 16.5% year over year
Median days on market42▼ 5.7% year over year
Listings price-reduced8.9%seller-concession signal
Median listing pricen/a▲ 15.1% year over year

Listing price is an asking price, not a closed sale. Quality-flagged county rows are withheld instead of displayed.

Same metro

The other counties in Omaha, 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
Sarpy County197,389$361k$1,4664.9%inland flooding
Douglas County590,736$300k$1,4485.8%inland flooding
Pottawattamie County93,424$245k$1,3566.7%inland flooding
Cass County27,161$316k$1,2764.8%inland flooding
Saunders County23,048$364kn/an/ainland flooding
Washington County21,106$406kn/an/ainland flooding
Harrison County14,632$232kn/an/ainland flooding
Mills County14,568$288kn/an/ainland flooding
Bear case

What can break the county thesis

  1. Property-specific flood insurance, deductible, or mitigation requirements could make the gross-yield screen fail.
  2. Achieved rents, vacancy, and operating costs may differ from county asking-rent evidence, invalidating net-income assumptions.
  3. MLS inventory, pending activity, and migration measures may not reflect closed sales, the target submarket, or buyer financing conditions.
Underwriting questions

Before pricing a property

What revenue metric is actually published for Sarpy County?

Median asking rent is $1,466 per month, and the supplied gross yield is 4.87% before costs.

Can HUD’s two-bedroom FMR be used as the county’s market asking rent?

No. It is a payment standard, not an estimate of asking rent.

What climate issue requires property-level diligence?

Inland flood is the dominant hazard, with a modeled climate-loss ratio of 0.13% of building value per year.