Ashland, Nebraska.
Typical home $405,824 (+6.1% in a year). Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,158 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,260 +6%
- $382,564$405,824 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $89,405 +28%
- $316,419$405,824 since Sep 2021
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.
- Ashland$2,130
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Ashland, NE rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ashland, Saunders County, Nebraska
Ashland is a city of 3,086 people in Saunders County. Half its households earn more than $89,408 a year and half less, against $94,066 across Saunders County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Saunders County was 2.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ashland is a small city in Saunders County, and most homes there are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while July brings warm days, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Across Saunders County, some of the largest workplaces are Saunders Medical Center, the Ashland-Greenwood public schools and JEO Consulting Group. The typical commute is fairly long, and some people work from home.
Things to do. Eugene T. Mahoney State Park and Platte River State Park are both protected areas a short drive away, and the Elkhorn River is close by as well. The Strategic Air and Space Museum is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Joslyn Art Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 1,218households
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Saunders County had 6,040 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 22 inches of snow and 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ashland #2 weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Saunders County
- JEO Consulting GroupCivil engineering services450
- Wahoo Public SchoolsSchool district169FTE
- Ashland-greenwood Public SchsSchool district150FTE
- Saunders Medical CenterCritical access hospital140FTE
- Cedar Bluffs Public SchoolsSchool district87FTE
- Darling InternationalRendering plants86
- Yutan Public SchoolsSchool district78FTE
- OSC (Omaha Steel Casting)Steel foundries65
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,167 people in all across the county; Ashland has two 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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ashland’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 Saunders County and the Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA metro.
Ashland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ashland$405,824
- Nebraska$278,299
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Ashland listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Ashland26.38%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ashland30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Ashland8
Zip codes with a Ashland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ashland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.