Housing
Real Estate
The Kearney area offers a wide selection of affordable housing in many price ranges. Housing construction in the Kearney area continues at a strong pace and across all sectors, including low-to-moderate-income products. New subdivisions creating moderate to high-end home lots continue at a strong pace.
- Average price for homes sold in 2009 was $127, 502, up from $127,339 in 2008
- 61 new home sites in all price ranges were issued permits in 2009
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To search for homes available in Buffalo County, please click here to access the Realtor.com service.
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Click here for a listing of Buffalo County Realtors
Click here for a listing of Real Estate Appraisers
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Taxes
Nebraska has corporate and personal income tax, property tax and retail/sales tax. For more information on taxes contact the Buffalo County Treasurers Office at 308.236.1250.
- Property tax rate in Kearney city limits per $100 of actual value is $1.802516.
- The city of Kearney sales tax is 1.5% and the state of Nebraska sales tax is 5.5%, with a combined sales tax in Kearney of 7.0%.
- Personal income tax varies depending on income and marital status.
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Utilities
Residential Natural Gas
The Kearney area has three local natural gas providers:
Electricity, Water & Sewer and Garbage collection
Contact Nebraska Public Power District for electric services and rates at 877.275.6773
Contact City of Kearney for water and sewer service, and garbage collection at 308.233.3240
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Telephone
The Kearney area has two primary telephone carriers:
- Contact Frontier Communications at 800.921.8101
- Contact Charter Communications at 866.891.3888
- The area code for the Kearney area is 308
- Copies of Kearney area telephone books may be obtained by calling Frontier at 800.921.8101 or Yellow Book at 888.391.6363
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Internet service providers
There is a multitude of internet access services available to the Kearney area. Choices range from dial-up to high-speed cable, DSL, ISDN, VPN, T1, wireless broadband and satellite.
Click here to see the listing of Internet service providers.
Cable television and satellite providers
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Cable
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Satellite
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Charter Communication
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800.891.3888 |
| DirecTV |
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800.280.4388 |
| Dish Network |
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877.203.9044 |
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Frontier Communications
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800.921.8101 |
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Banking
Click here to see the listing of Kearney area financial institutions.
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