Dalton, Nebraska.
Typical home $191,237 (+4.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$565 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,864 +4%
- $183,372$191,237 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,829 +31%
- $146,407$191,237 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.
- Dalton$1,004
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Dalton, NE rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dalton, Morrill County, Nebraska
Dalton is a village of 284 people in Morrill County. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Morrill County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 3.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Morrill 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dalton is a small village in Morrill County, Nebraska, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Typical home values are modest, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect in a farming region. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn warm, with July the hottest. Precipitation is on the dry side overall, as it is across much of the western Plains.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by farming, forestry and mining, the building trades and shops. Across Morrill County, the largest workplaces include Morrill County Community Hospital, Bridgeport Public Schools and Progress Rail. Unemployment in the county is low and has eased a little over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The Mud Springs Station Archeological District and the Greenwood Stage Station, both archaeological sites, are a short drive away and tell of the frontier travel routes that crossed this country. A longer drive brings you to Chimney Rock National Historic Site, a protected area and one of the best known landmarks along the old overland trails.
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- 7%below the poverty line
What people in Morrill County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Morrill County had 1,495 jobs in 2025, 3.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 62°. About 48 inches of snow and 21 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dalton weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Morrill County
- Morrill County Community HospitalCritical access hospital179FTE
- Bridgeport Public SchoolsSchool district94FTE
- Bayard Public SchoolsSchool district75FTE
- Progress RailRailroad rolling stock manufacturing54
- Bridgeport EthanolDenatured alcohol manufacturing28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 82 people in all across the county; Dalton 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
- HailVery high
- DroughtVery high
- LightningVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dalton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Morrill County.
Dalton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dalton$191,237
- 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 Dalton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dalton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.