Milligan, Nebraska.
Typical home $158,812 (+8.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$510 (+158%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,427 +8%
- $146,384$158,812 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,297 +44%
- $110,515$158,812 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.
- Milligan$834
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Milligan, NE rose 8.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Milligan, Fillmore County, Nebraska
Milligan is a village of 244 people in Fillmore County. Half its households earn more than $65,357 a year and half less, against $76,295 across Fillmore County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Fillmore County was 2.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fillmore County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Milligan is a small village in Fillmore County, Nebraska, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Household incomes run below the county's, and the typical home value is modest. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home. Winters are cold, with snow on the ground often, and summers are warm, with a fair amount of rain across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming and shops also providing many jobs. Across Fillmore County, the largest workplaces include Fillmore County Hospital, Horizontal Boring & Tunneling Co and Fillmore Central Public Schs. Unemployment in the county is low and has barely moved from a year earlier, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. The nearest places worth a trip are all a longer drive away. Warren's Opera House is a theatre, and Lee's Legendary Marbles and Collectables is a museum. Doane College Osterhout Arboretum is a botanical garden, a quieter outing for a mild day.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Fillmore County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fillmore County had 2,378 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 21 inches of snow and 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Geneva weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fillmore County
- Fillmore County HospitalCritical access hospital150FTE
- Horizontal Boring & Tunneling CoUtility line, construction105
- Fillmore Central Public SchsSchool district98FTE
- Vetter Senior LivingNursing homes84
- Poet Bioprocessing FairmontDenatured alcohol manufacturing61
- Shickley Public SchoolsSchool district38FTE
- NE Nitro GenevaAnhydrous ammonia manufacturing35
- Exeter-milligan Public SchoolsSchool district34FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 339 people in all across the county; Milligan 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Milligan’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 Fillmore County.
Milligan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Milligan$158,812
- 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 Milligan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Milligan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.