Wahoo, NE
68066 · Wahoo, NE has a HavenScore of 54 — market conditions — inventory, days on market, price cuts — currently favor sellers.
At the ZIP's typical value, the estimated monthly payment takes 29% of the local median income (Zillow, US Census ACS). The buyer/seller gauge leans narrowly toward sellers, and has for 7 months. Typical values were flat over the last 90 days (Zillow ZHVI).
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Zillow ZHVI peaked at $295,303 in Jul 2026; the latest value is -0.7% from that peak, 1 months on. Since January 2019 it is +76.8%. The sharpest 12-month move was +3.6%, ending Jul 2024.
Ranked #4,711 of 13,130 nationally · #1,900 of 5,378 small market ZIPs
Buyer view active — Leans harder on affordability and downside risk.
Score inputs below recompute for this view
Snapshot
Numbers at a glance, with a year of history under each
Place
What it is like to live here, and what could flood or burn
Bands are each source’s own · tick marks the national median ZIP · not blended into the score
Tract-level rolled up to ZIP · not a property-level rating · no future-year projection · refreshed annually (Dec 2025 release) · county tick = median of 13 scored ZIPs in Saunders County
Everyday prices in the Omaha metro run 8% below the US average (BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024).
Rents in the index run 14% below the US average.
$75,000 at US-average prices buys what $68,950 buys here.
Metro-level index, US = 100 · 2024 · the Omaha metro, not this ZIP alone
What drives the score
Five pillars, each scored 0–100
Market signals
Tailwinds and headwinds right now
- Affordable vs. income3.3× income — below the national median
- Strong price appreciation+5.1% year-over-year
- Strong job market2.6% unemployment
- Population outflow-25.1% net — people leaving
- Potentially overvalued89% above historical price-to-income
Market conditions
Leaning Seller
The score reads conditions tightening in sellers' favor.
Cycle read. Accelerating: prices +5.1% over the trailing year, with the market leaning toward sellers.
The Zillow figure is a smoothed index of typical value, not a list price; the Redfin figures are closed sales for the month shown.
Momentum check
What's changed in the last 90 days
Trend
Where it's been
Forecast
Where it's heading
The HavenScore Forecast Model (v1) projects this ZIP’s median value at 3-, 6-, and 12-month horizons, with 80% prediction intervals; Pro adds 24- and 36-month horizons.
Monthly cost
What you'd owe each month
20% down · 30-yr fixed · 7.03% · tax 1.63%
Rent data isn’t published for this ZIP, so we can’t compute a rent-vs-buy gap.
Insurance uses the average homeowners premium insurers reported for this ZIP in 2022, $2,492 a year (Treasury Federal Insurance Office).
29%of the ZIP’s median income at the median value ($2,172/mo against $90,324 · Zillow, Freddie Mac PMMS, US Census ACS). Your own marker appears once you set an income or price in the calculator below.
Median home value ÷ median household income · Zillow ZHVI, US Census ACS · under 4× has historically been comfortable
Run the numbers
Your price, rate, down payment and income
Like for like: a 3-bedroom here rents for about $1,450 a month (HUD Small Area Fair Market Rent, FY2026) against a typical 3-bedroom value of $275k (Zillow ZHVI by bedroom) — a 6.3% gross rent yield.
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Sources
Every number, traced
Every metric above is sourced from public datasets, normalized against the national ZIP distribution. Home values and rents refresh monthly; demographics refresh annually.
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