Dix, Nebraska.
Typical home $146,952 (+2.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$378 (+96%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,033 +3%
- $142,920$146,952 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $16,307 +12%
- $130,646$146,952 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.
- Dix$771
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Dix, NE rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dix, Kimball County, Nebraska
Dix is a village of 187 people in Kimball County. Unemployment in Kimball County was 2.0% in August 2026, and the county had 5.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Kimball County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dix is a very small village in Kimball County, Nebraska, home to fewer people than most towns on the plains. Winters are cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers turn properly warm in July. Rain and melted snow are modest across the year, which suits the dry open country around it. Typical home values are on the modest side, and few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in farming, forestry and mining, and in shops. Across Kimball County, the largest workplaces include Kimball County Hospital, Kimball Public Schools and Curley's Machine Works. Unemployment across the county is low and a little lower than a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year. Almost no one works from home, which fits a place where most jobs have to be done on site.
Things to do. The nearest sights are all a longer drive away, and they are about the history of the region. Greenwood Stage Station and Mud Springs Station Archeological District are archaeological sites, and Fort Sidney is an old fort. Together they make a day out for anyone interested in how the area was settled.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 2%work from home
What people in Kimball County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kimball County had 1,575 jobs in 2025, 5.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 55°. About 30 inches of snow and 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kimball 2NE weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kimball County
- Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc 69KP404
- Kimball County HospitalCritical access hospital83FTE
- Kimball Public SchoolsSchool district74FTE
- Curley's Machine WorksMachine bases, metal, manufacturing24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 428 people in all across the county; Dix has none 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningVery high
- DroughtRelatively 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 Dix’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 Kimball County.
Dix home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dix$146,952
- 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 Dix address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dix — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.