Nickerson, Nebraska.
Typical home $361,204 (+3.8% in a year). Fremont, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,076 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,192 +4%
- $348,012$361,204 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $89,264 +33%
- $271,940$361,204 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.
- Nickerson$1,896
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Nickerson, NE rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Nickerson, Dodge County, Nebraska
Nickerson is a village of 312 people in Dodge County. Unemployment in Dodge County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dodge 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Nickerson is a very small village in Dodge County, Nebraska, the kind of place where neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here are worth more than the typical household income in the county would suggest, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January highs hovering around freezing, and summers turn properly warm by July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Jobs across Dodge County have slipped slightly over the past year, though unemployment remains low and a little lower than it was a year earlier. People who live in Nickerson mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops and in the building trades. Some of the biggest workplaces across the county are Wholestone Farms, Methodist Fremont Health and Fremont Public Schools, and almost no one works from home.
Things to do. A short drive away are Fremont Lakes State Recreation Area, a protected area good for time by the water, and the Love-Larson Opera House, a theatre. The Nebraska Railroad Museum is also a short drive off. For a longer outing, Fort Atkinson is a historic fort a longer drive away.
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- 3%of adults have a degree
- 1%work from home
What people in Dodge County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dodge County had 18,382 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fremont weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dodge County
- Wholestone FarmsFats, animal, produced in slaughtering plants1,244
- Lincoln Premium PoultryChicken hatchery and processing1,182
- Nebraska Methodist Health SystemGeneral medical and surgical hospitals825
- Fremont Public SchoolsSchool district667FTE
- Structural Component SystemsTrusses, wood roof or floor, manufacturing465
- FCC Fremont Contract Carriers - MAIN OFFICE AND TRUCK SHOPGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload411
- Midland UniversityUniversity or college405
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters352
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,362 people in all across the county; Nickerson has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Nickerson’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Dodge County and the Fremont, NE metro.
Nickerson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Nickerson$361,204
- 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 Nickerson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Nickerson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.