Orleans, Nebraska.
Typical home $106,133 (+0.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $15 (-3%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $126 +0%
- $106,007$106,133 since Sep 2025
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.
- Orleans$557
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Orleans, NE rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Orleans, Harlan County, Nebraska
Orleans is a village of 341 people in Harlan County. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Harlan County was 1.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Harlan County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Orleans is a very small village in Harlan County, Nebraska, where most people own the homes they live in. Home values here are modest, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than is typical for the county. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while July brings hot days.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by farming, forestry and mining, then manufacturing and shops. Across Harlan County, the biggest workplaces include Alma Public Schools and Harlan County Health System. Unemployment across the county is low and has changed little over the past year, and the typical commute is a modest one.
Things to do. Sappa Creek, a river, runs in or beside town. A short drive away are Harlan County Reservoir, a large reservoir, and Beaver Creek, another river.
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- 24%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
What people in Harlan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Harlan County had 869 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 65°. About 15 inches of snow and 25 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Harlan County Lake weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Harlan County
- Alma Public SchoolsSchool district75FTE
- GSS Alma Nursing FacilityNursing homes50
- Harlan County Health SystemCritical access hospital48FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 160 people in all across the county; Orleans 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
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Orleans’ 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 Harlan County.
Orleans home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Orleans$106,133
- 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 Orleans address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Orleans — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.