Lewellen, Nebraska.
Typical home $245,292 (+1.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$699 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,410 +2%
- $240,882$245,292 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,318 +17%
- $208,974$245,292 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.
- Lewellen$1,287
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Lewellen, NE rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lewellen, Garden County, Nebraska
Lewellen is a village of 175 people in Garden County. Half its households earn more than $41,848 a year and half less, against $41,882 across Garden County. Unemployment in Garden County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Garden County work in farming, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lewellen is a very small village in Garden County, Nebraska, where the population is older than in most American towns. Household incomes sit almost exactly where the county's do, and the typical home value is well within reach of what many longtime homeowners would expect to see in a small farming community. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and snow is a regular part of the season. Summers turn properly warm by July, and the year brings a modest amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in farming, forestry and mining, while others are employed in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, or restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Garden County, the largest workplaces are Garden County Schools, Regional West Garden County Hospital and Oshkosh Heifer Development, which raises dairy heifer replacements. Unemployment in the county has held steady over the past year, though there were somewhat fewer jobs last year than the year before, and the typical commute is short.
Things to do. Ash Hollow State Historical Park, an archaeological site, lies in or beside town and is the nearest place to start. A longer drive away are Lake McConaughy, a large reservoir, and Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area. Together they offer a mix of local history, water and open country.
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- 18 mintypical commute
What people in Garden County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Garden County had 487 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 60°. About 28 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oshkosh weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Garden County
- Garden County SchoolsSchool district61FTE
- Regional West Garden County HospitalCritical access hospital52FTE
- Oshkosh Heifer DevelopmentDairy heifer replacement production48
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 48 people in all across the county; Lewellen has none 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
- LightningVery high
- HailVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lewellen’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 Garden County.
Lewellen home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lewellen$245,292
- 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.
- Lewellen18
Zip codes with a Lewellen address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lewellen — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.