Bellevue, Nebraska

Area Profile

64,510 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Bellevue, in Sarpy County.

73out of 100
Area Score
Top 12% of 2,944 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 4% of 3,904 published cities83
Schools1836th of 2,668 published cities37
GrowthTop 25% of 2,973 published cities65
Housing affordabilityTop 8% of 4,223 published cities100
Climate3676th of 4,223 published cities59
Physical resilienceTop 31% of 4,182 published cities75
AccessTop 32% of 4,226 published cities96
Economic stabilityTop 29% of 4,226 published cities70
The quick read

Bellevue ranks in the top 4% of published city profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.3% and median household income of $85,462.

Development activity is both elevated and accelerating — 374 housing units permitted over the past twelve months, up 23% on the prior year.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 17% of median household income and the median home is 2.9 times it.

At a glance

Population
64,510
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$85,462
Top 29% nationally
Density
2,819/sq mi
22.9 sq mi of land
Median age
36.3
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Sarpy County
Nebraska
Metro area
Omaha, NE-IA
Nearest major airport
OMA
11 mi · Eppley Airfield
Median home value
$247,000
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.3% is lower than 89% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment grew 1.1% over the past year, to 32,758 employed residents.

34% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 75% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$2,914$85,462Top 29%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,131$40,758Top 31%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate7.8%Bottom 37%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute21.9 minBottom 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher34.4%Top 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment32,758Bottom 40%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)3.8%Top 10%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)1.1%Top 12%June 2026
Labor force33,861Bottom 40%June 2026
Labor force participation67.4%Top 26%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$64,900Bottom 30%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$49,660Bottom 39%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.0%Bottom 45%June 2026
Unemployment rate3.3%Bottom 11%June 2026
Unemployment rate
2021/062022/032022/122023/092024/062025/032025/102026/063.72.2
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 3.3% in June 2026. A break in the line is a month the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not publish for this area — it is left empty rather than estimated.
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202487k74k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $85,462 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Omaha, NE-IA
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers15,580$29,450
Registered Nurses13,200$84,600
Retail Salespersons12,080$33,260
General and Operations Managers11,430$90,620
Stockers and Order Fillers10,490$36,810
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers10,210$58,010

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

39% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 44% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 15.1 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
33
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
15.1
across all schools here
Math proficiency
39.2%
Bottom 29% in Nebraska
Reading proficiency
43.5%
Bottom 36% in Nebraska
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
BELLEVUE WEST SR HIGH SCHOOLBELLEVUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS1,52916.4
BRYAN HIGH SCHOOLOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS1,47417.1
BELLEVUE EAST SR HIGH SCHOOLBELLEVUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS1,42014.3
BRYAN MIDDLE SCHOOLOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS68215.28%27%
WAKE ROBIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBELLEVUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS54319.451%55%
FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBELLEVUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS48616.861%61%
LOGAN FONTENELLE MIDDLE SCHOOLBELLEVUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS48012.352%57%
LEWIS & CLARK MIDDLE SCHOOLBELLEVUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS47614.057%62%
PETER SARPY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBELLEVUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS46616.139%44%
BELLEVUE MISSION MIDDLE SCHOOLBELLEVUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS40613.137%42%
GILDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS38915.621%10%
CHANDLER VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS36816.017%29%

36.6% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Nebraska’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,226 takes 17% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.9 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
17.2%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.9×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,226
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$247,000
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income2.89Bottom 49%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate65.5%Bottom 29%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±56526,560Top 2%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$39$1,226Top 31%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$6,651$247,000Top 36%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income17.2%Bottom 40%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate4.4%Bottom 26%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
65/ 100
Top 25% of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is decreasing, measured from 2020 to 2025.

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

Population has fallen 1% since 2020, reaching 64,777 in 2024.

Permitting has turned downward after moving the other way the year before.

At 5.8 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
374
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
5.8
Top 26% nationally
Year over year
+23%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
50.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202465k64k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population.
Housing units permitted per year
202020212022202320242025415146
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2020 (−39%).

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 88°F and January a low of 15°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 31.9 inches, including 27.1 inches of snow.

0°20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station OMAHA EPPLEY AIRFIELD, 11.6 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.7"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation31.9"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall27.1"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low15°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high88°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing54°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today.

Physical risk

75 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are tornado, hail and strong wind.

TornadoElevated
HailElevated
Strong windModerate
Heat waveElevated
Ice stormModerate

Low or minimal exposure: winter weather, cold wave, wildfire, inland flooding, lightning, landslide, drought, earthquake.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Sarpy County records 2.3 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 9.5 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 8.0 per 100,000 residents in Sarpy County.

Homicide
2.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
9.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
8.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
13.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Sarpy County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around Bellevue rather than Bellevue itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 11 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Eppley AirfieldOMA11 mi9,502 ft
LincolnLNK47 mi8,649 ft
Sioux Gateway/Brig General Bud Day FldSUX90 mi9,002 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Other cities in Omaha, NE-IA

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
OmahaDouglas County488,83768vs Bellevue
Council BluffsPottawattamie County62,58666vs Bellevue
PapillionSarpy County25,24482vs Bellevue
La VistaSarpy County16,563vs Bellevue
ChalcoSarpy County10,595vs Bellevue

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

ZIP codes in Bellevue

4 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
6812333,804$93,18877
6800521,984$66,55170
6814712,430$90,25570
681575,252$98,01579