Midwest · Nebraska · pop 295K
Lincoln, NE
Good match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in NE, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,097 — covering estimated essentials here (about $1,003 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $1,760 left over.
Home prices are within reach relative to local pay — the median home ($270,000) is about 4.0× the median household income.
Expect summer highs near 89°F, winter lows around 13°F, and about 222 sunny days a year.
Tradeoff: this is a quieter market with fewer restaurants and entertainment options per resident.
The Lincoln fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,337/mo
Typical rent
$1,180/mo
Home value ÷ income
4.0×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,050/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,180/mo
- Median home value
- $270,000
- Median household income
- $68,000
- Population
- 295,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 2.8%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 1.2%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 360
- Property crime rate
- 2,400
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 89°F
- Avg. winter low
- 13°F
- Sunny days / year
- 222
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈21/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈50/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈4/yr
- Annual rain
- 29"
- Annual snow
- 26"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+4
- Int'l airport
- ≈190 mi
- Walkability
- 43/100
- Disaster risk
- 50/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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