Ansley, Nebraska.
Typical home $104,020 (+18.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$211 (+63%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $15,941 +18%
- $88,079$104,020 since Sep 2025
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Ansley$546
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Ansley, NE rose 18.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ansley, Custer County, Nebraska
Ansley is a village of 459 people in Custer County. Unemployment in Custer County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Custer County work in schools and health care, then farming.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Ansley is a small village in Custer County, Nebraska, where neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here cost far less than in most of the country, and relatively few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn properly hot in July. Rain and melted snow arrive in modest amounts through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in farming, forestry and mining, with manufacturing and shops close behind. Across Custer County, some of the largest workplaces are Broken Bow Public Schools, the Jennie M. Melham Memorial Medical Center and Adams Land and Cattle. Hardly anyone works from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one, which fits a village surrounded by farmland. Only a minority of adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. Ansley is a quiet village, and the facts at hand name no particular attractions or nearby destinations. Days here follow the seasons: snow in the cold months, long warm evenings in summer. Visitors and residents alike will find a small place where life moves at an unhurried pace.
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- 253households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What people in Custer County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Custer County had 4,544 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 62°. About 26 inches of snow and 26 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mason City weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Custer County
- USA NE - Broken Bow Becton DickinsonHypodermic needles and syringes manufacturing594
- Broken BOW Public SchoolsSchool district116FTE
- Adams Land and CattleBeef cattle feedlots113
- Jennie M. Melham Memorial MED CenterCritical access hospital90FTE
- the grocery kartGrocery stores75
- Myers ConstructionUtility line, construction74
- Adams Land and CattleBeef cattle feedlots55
- Callaway District HospitalCritical access hospital50FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,054 people in all across the county; Ansley has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ansley’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Custer County.
Ansley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ansley$104,020
- Nebraska$278,299
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Ansley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ansley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.