Potter, Nebraska.
Typical home $211,264 (+4.1% in a year). Scottsbluff, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$649 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,380 +4%
- $202,884$211,264 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,742 +38%
- $153,522$211,264 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.
- Potter$1,109
- 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 Potter, NE rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Potter, Cheyenne County, Nebraska
Potter is a village of 342 people in Cheyenne County. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Cheyenne County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cheyenne County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Potter is a small village in Cheyenne County, Nebraska, home to a very small community where most households own the homes they live in. Typical home values here are modest, and household incomes across the county sit somewhat low for the state. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn quite warm, with July the hottest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, transport and warehouses, and professional and business services. Across Cheyenne County, some of the largest workplaces are Sidney Regional Medical Center, Sidney Public Schools and Walmart. Most people have a fairly short commute, and only a small share work from home.
Things to do. Several places tied to the history of the region lie within a longer drive. Greenwood Stage Station and the Mud Springs Station Archeological District are both archaeological sites, and Fort Sidney is an old fort. North Sterling State Park, also a longer drive away, is a protected area for time outdoors.
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- 28%of adults have a degree
- 20 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Cheyenne County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cheyenne County had 3,963 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 59°. About 29 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sidney Nnw weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cheyenne County
- Sidney Regional Medical CenterCritical access hospital265FTE
- Sidney Public SchoolsSchool district202FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters163
- Sandhills PublishingTrade magazine and periodical publishers and printing combined72
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores64
- Central Garden & Pet57
- Leyton Public SchoolsSchool district46FTE
- HuyettBolts, metal, manufacturing45
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 926 people in all across the county; Potter has one 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
- DroughtVery high
- LightningVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Potter’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 Cheyenne County and the Scottsbluff, NE metro.
Potter home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Potter$211,264
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Potter5
Zip codes with a Potter address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Potter — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.