Mullen, Nebraska.
Typical home $139,537 (+15.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$436 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,234 +15%
- $121,303$139,537 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,526 +38%
- $101,011$139,537 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.
- Mullen$732
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Mullen, NE rose 15.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mullen, Cherry County, Nebraska
Mullen is a village of 500 people in Cherry County. Unemployment in Cherry County was 1.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in restaurants and hotels, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mullen is a village in Cherry County, Nebraska, small enough that neighbors tend to know one another. Its residents are somewhat older than in much of the country, and homes here cost less than in many parts of the United States. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in transport, warehouses and utilities, in the building trades, and in banks, insurance and property. Across Cherry County, some of the largest workplaces are Valentine Community Schools, Cherry County Hospital and Cody-kilgore Public Schs. Unemployment across the county is low, though the county had fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. The Dismal River, a river a longer drive away, is the one nearby place on record for getting outdoors. Beyond that, Mullen is a quiet village where days tend to move at an unhurried pace.
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- 224households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cherry County had 2,263 jobs in 2025, 2.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 61°. About 42 inches of snow and 24 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mullen weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cherry County
- Valentine Community SchoolsSchool district116FTE
- Cherry County HospitalCritical access hospital89FTE
- Cody-kilgore Public SchsSchool district36FTE
- Cherry Hills EstatesAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities32
- CSS Farms, LLC CodyVegetable and potato farming, potato dominant crop, field and seed potato production28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 60 people in all across the county; Mullen has one 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mullen’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 Cherry County.
Mullen home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mullen$139,537
- 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 Mullen address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mullen — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.