Ericson, Nebraska.
Typical home $232,963 (+3.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$552 (+82%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $8,401 +4%
- $224,563$232,963 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,149 +9%
- $212,814$232,963 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.
- Ericson$1,223
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 38 years.
Typical home values in Ericson, NE rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ericson, Wheeler County, Nebraska
Ericson is a village of 89 people in Wheeler County. Unemployment in Wheeler County was 2.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wheeler County work in farming, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ericson is a very small village in Wheeler County, in north-central Nebraska, where people tend to know one another. Winters are cold, with lows well below freezing, and summers are warm. The area gets a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Many residents work in farming, forestry and mining, while others work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, or in the building trades. Across Wheeler County, the number of jobs dipped slightly last year, though unemployment remains low. Few residents work from home.
Things to do. Fort Hartsuff State Historical Park and Calamus State Recreation Area are protected areas, each a longer drive away. Olson Nature Preserve is also a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 4%below the poverty line
- 6%work from home
What people in Wheeler County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wheeler County had 303 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 61°. About 27 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ericson Wnw weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wheeler County
- HerdBeef cattle feedlots74
- Wheeler Central SchoolsSchool district42FTE
- Pillen Family FarmsHog and pig farming23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 97 people in all across the county; Ericson has none of its own. School districts come 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
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ericson’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 Wheeler County.
Ericson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ericson$232,963
- 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 Ericson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ericson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.