68164Omaha, Nebraska

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 68164.

70out of 100
Area Score
Top 18% of 5,298 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 3% of 6,210 published ZIP areas85
Schools3273rd of 4,422 published ZIP areas33
GrowthTop 33% of 5,428 published ZIP areas60
Housing affordabilityTop 9% of 6,685 published ZIP areas100
Climate5921st of 6,789 published ZIP areas59
Physical resilienceTop 46% of 6,709 published ZIP areas62
AccessTop 34% of 6,791 published ZIP areas96
Economic stabilityTop 10% of 6,742 published ZIP areas81
The quick read

68164 ranks in the top 3% of published ZIP profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.3% and median household income of $88,927.

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.

A major airport is 11 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
28,564
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$88,927
Top 28% nationally
Density
3,232/sq mi
8.8 sq mi of land
Median age
37.1
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Omaha
Nebraska
Metro area
Omaha, NE-IA
Nearest major airport
OMA
11 mi · Eppley Airfield
Median home value
$255,900
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.3% is lower than 91% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment grew 0.9% over the past year, to 261,050 employed residents.

43% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 82% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$3,761$88,927Top 28%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,092$44,654Top 28%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate6.2%Bottom 26%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute22.1 minBottom 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher43.0%Top 18%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment261,050Top 19%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)3.3%Top 12%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)0.9%Top 12%June 2026
Labor force269,898Top 19%June 2026
Labor force participation76.2%Top 5%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$64,900Bottom 35%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$49,660Bottom 44%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.2%Bottom 36%June 2026
Unemployment rate3.3%Bottom 9%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202489k81k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $88,927 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.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Omaha, NE, the city containing this ZIP code.

37% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 44% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 17.5 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
6
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
17.5
across all schools here
Math proficiency
37.2%
Bottom 30% in Nebraska
Reading proficiency
44.1%
Bottom 36% in Nebraska
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
ALICE BUFFETT MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOLOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS95219.037%47%
PRAIRIE WIND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS64417.427%35%
FULLERTON MAGNET CENTEROMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS55017.740%47%
EZRA MILLARD ELEMENTARY SCHMILLARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS48516.769%68%
SUNNY SLOPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS43216.017%25%
JOSLYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS29916.632%37%

31.5% 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 $1,288 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
17.4%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.9×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,288
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$255,900
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income2.88Bottom 43%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate66.4%Bottom 23%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±45212,694Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$65$1,288Top 31%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$7,702$255,900Top 41%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income17.4%Bottom 48%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate5.8%Bottom 27%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
60/ 100
Top 33% of 5,428 published city profiles

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.

At 7.1 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
3,487
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
7.1
Top 20% nationally
Year over year
−12%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
57.7%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Omaha, NE, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 85°F and January a low of 15°F.

Air quality measures a median index of 45, in the Good band, and one day a year passes 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

0°20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station OMAHA #1, 5.8 miles from this location.
Precipitation
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index61.02024 calendar year
Average January low15°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high85°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10012024 calendar year
Median air quality index45.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing52°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
45
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
61
90th percentile index
Days above 100
1
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

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. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

62 / 100
Physical resilience

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

Strong windModerate
HailElevated
TornadoHigh
Ice stormModerate
Heat waveElevated
LightningModerate

Low or minimal exposure: winter weather, cold wave, inland flooding, wildfire, 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. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. 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.

Douglas County records 3.7 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 10.3 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 10.5 per 100,000 residents in Douglas County.

Homicide
3.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
10.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
10.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
14.6
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 Douglas 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 68164 rather than 68164 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
LincolnLNK46 mi8,649 ft
Sioux Gateway/Brig General Bud Day FldSUX78 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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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
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

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.

68164 vs Omaha

How this ZIP area compares with Omaha as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

68164
Omaha
Median household income
$88,927
vs
$73,201
Per capita income
$44,654
vs
$43,638
Population density
3,232/sq mi
vs
3,420/sq mi
Median home value
$255,900
vs
$245,500
Median gross rent
$1,288
vs
$1,187
Homeownership rate
66.4%
vs
57.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher
43.0%
vs
40.1%
Poverty rate
6.2%
vs
13.5%
Median age
37.1
vs
35.3

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.