It takes no more than a drive around the metro area to see the vibrancy of the Omaha-Council Bluffs area.
You’ll find construction projects from apartment complexes to strip malls to a new hospital to new homes and more stretching across the landscape. You’ll find parking lots full at restaurants of all types. You’ll find bustling crowds from the Old Market to Village Pointe, from Aksarben Village to Legacy, from Shadow Lake Towne Center to Nebraska Crossing.
What’s going on here? Simply put Nebraska is sporting the nation’s lowest unemployment rate – 2.7% in February – for the first time since June 1998 when it stood at 2.5%. And Omaha is thriving. The metro area population hit 904,421 last year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and is on track to top one million within the next 10 years.
The Omaha metro area includes Douglas, Sarpy, Cass, Washington and Saunders Counties in Nebraska and Pottawattamie, Mills and Harrison Counties in Iowa.
Omaha stacks up very well against any metro in the nation. Here are a few pertinent facts, according to the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce’s “We Don’t Coast” magazine:
– Median Household Income: $56,455, compared to $51,929 nationwide
– Cost of Living: 11% below the national average
– Median Home Price: $145,700, compared to $197,400 nationwide
– High School Graduates: 90% plus for adults ages 25 and older compared to 85% nationally
We at Dino’s Storage are proud to be a part of the Omaha community and, together with our Landmark Group partner, we’re proud to be involved in a variety of construction projects – new and renovations – in the metro.