Atkinson, Nebraska.
Typical home $185,970 (+11.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$501 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,211 +12%
- $166,759$185,970 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,842 +21%
- $153,128$185,970 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.
- Atkinson$976
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Atkinson, NE rose 11.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Atkinson, Holt County, Nebraska
Atkinson is a city of 1,306 people in Holt County. Half its households earn more than $79,375 a year and half less, against $68,513 across Holt County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Holt County was 1.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Atkinson is a small city in Holt County, Nebraska, where most homes are lived in by their owners and incomes run higher than across the county. The shortest of commutes is typical, and few people work from home. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, farming and manufacturing also employing many. Across Holt County, some of the largest workplaces are Avera St. Anthony's Hospital, West Holt Memorial Hospital and O'Neill Public Schools. Unemployment in the county is low and a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The countryside around Atkinson is cut by small rivers and creeks. Middle Branch Eagle Creek, North Branch Eagle Creek and Brush Creek are each a short drive away, and the Keya Paha River is a longer drive off.
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- 526households
- 35%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 12 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Holt County had 4,344 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 62°. About 33 inches of snow and 25 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Atkinson 3SW weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Holt County
- Avera St. Anthonys HospitalCritical access hospital163FTE
- O'neill Public SchoolsSchool district126FTE
- West Holt Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital80FTE
- West Holt Public SchoolsSchool district76FTE
- Accura Healthcare of O'NeillSkilled nursing facilities50
- O'Neill Valley HopeAlcoholism rehabilitation hospitals45
- Stuart Public SchoolsSchool district45FTE
- AZZGalvanizing metals and metal products for the trade44
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 476 people in all across the county; Atkinson has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Atkinson’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Holt County.
Atkinson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Atkinson$185,970
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Atkinson11
Zip codes with a Atkinson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Atkinson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.