Overton, Nebraska.
Typical home $212,115 (-4.0% in a year). Lexington, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$605 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,909 -4%
- $221,023$212,115 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,592 +31%
- $162,522$212,115 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.
- Overton$1,113
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Overton, NE fell 4.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Overton, Dawson County, Nebraska
Overton is a village of 607 people in Dawson County. Half its households earn more than $55,000 a year and half less, against $69,880 across Dawson County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Dawson County was 16.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in farming, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Overton is a small village on the Nebraska plains, one of the smaller communities in the area. Household incomes run below the county's, and homes here are modest in price. Winters are cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers turn properly hot, so the seasons are plainly felt.
Work. Residents work mainly in farming, in schools and hospitals, in shops, and in transport and warehouses. Across Dawson County, the largest workplaces include Tyson Fresh Meats, Lexington Public Schools and Walmart. Jobless rates in the county have climbed well above last year's, and there are slightly fewer jobs than a year ago. Few adults in town hold a four-year degree, and almost no one works from home. Getting to work usually takes a fair stretch of driving.
Things to do. The best known place nearby is Fort Kearny, a historic fort a longer drive away. The Heartland Museum of Military Vehicles is another museum worth the trip, also a longer drive. For open country, the Rainwater Basin is a protected area, likewise a longer drive from town.
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- 266households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dawson County had 11,738 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 20 inches of snow and 23 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Canaday Steam Plt weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dawson County
- Tyson Fresh MeatsAnimal slaughtering3,202
- Lexington Public SchoolsSchool district490FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters275
- Lexington Regional Health CenterCritical access hospital202FTE
- Cozad Community HospitalCritical access hospital150FTE
- Cozad Community SchoolsSchool district148FTE
- Gothenburg Memorial HospCritical access hospital148FTE
- Fortrex - 0127 Tyson Foods Inc. - LexingtonJanitorial services115
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,245 people in all across the county; Overton 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
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Overton’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 Dawson County and the Lexington, NE metro.
Overton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Overton$212,115
- 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 Overton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Overton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.