Zip lookup · NE

68502
Lincoln, Nebraska.

Lincoln, Lancaster County, NE · Lincoln, NE metro · population 25,846

What it costs per month · 68502 $1,256/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$684 (+120%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $8,198 +4%
$231,026$239,224 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $49,041 +26%
$190,183$239,224 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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 68502 $1,256 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 68502$1,256
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.

Typical home values in zip 68502 rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in zip 68502 fell 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in zip 68502 runs $941/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.

That is $1,816 a month against $876 rent: a $1,256 mortgage payment, plus $305 property tax and $256 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 68502

The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Owning all in $1,816 Renting $876 Mortgage only $1,256
$500 $1,000 $1,500 2018 2022 2026
  • Owning all in$1,816
  • Renting$876
  • Mortgage only$1,256

Property tax · $305/mo 1.53% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Lancaster County, NE

Insurance & upkeep · $256/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.

Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.

Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: Lincoln, NE — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Asking rent $876 as of Sep 2026
-0.1%year on year
Typical home value $239,224 as of Sep 2026
+3.5%year on year

Asking rent — 68502

Against the Lincoln, NE metro and the national benchmark.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 68502 $876 Lincoln $1,281 United States $1,932
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 68502$876
  • Lincoln$1,281
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 68502

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 68502 $239,224 Lincoln $300,524 United States $366,157
$150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 68502$239,224
  • Lincoln$300,524
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

Showing 30 of 41 zips in range — sorting picks from all 41.

10 mi 20 mi 50 mi
Miles Zip City Population Rent Home value
2.4 68508 Lincoln 18,163 $822 $215,699
3.2 68503 Lincoln 15,867 $1,155 $198,715
3.2 68510 Lincoln 19,391 $1,107 $254,878
3.2 68512 Lincoln 13,802 $1,626 $348,357
3.2 68506 Lincoln 27,531 $1,260 $281,722
3.2 68522 Lincoln 14,836 $1,270 $278,992
4.4 68523 Lincoln 2,031 — $509,622
4.5 68516 Lincoln 48,903 $1,466 $390,488
5.3 68505 Lincoln 18,834 $1,364 $262,920
5.3 68504 Lincoln 17,278 $1,190 $220,988
5.5 68521 Lincoln 37,050 $1,464 $286,760
6.7 68528 Lincoln 7,273 $1,484 $289,052
7.0 68507 Lincoln 16,029 $1,387 $248,364
7.1 68526 Lincoln 7,944 $1,405 $465,548
7.5 68532 Lincoln 785 — $597,790
7.8 68520 Lincoln 2,762 $1,607 $623,733
8.1 68524 Lincoln 6,139 — $259,558
8.4 68430 Roca 1,989 $1,672 $618,566
9.4 68339 Denton 1,154 — $618,833
9.8 68461 Walton 503 — $741,634
10.5 68527 Lincoln 2,318 — $523,701
11.5 68517 Lincoln 415 — $588,990
11.7 68404 Martell 1,039 — $544,234
11.9 68402 Malcolm 1,459 — $522,374
12.3 68336 Davey 496 — $487,535
12.8 68317 Bennet 1,984 — $409,842
13.2 68423 Pleasant Dale 688 — $498,710
13.3 68372 Hickman 4,135 — $386,503
14.0 68428 Raymond 1,332 — $584,540
14.5 68462 Waverly 4,928 — $350,773

Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.