Sidney, Nebraska.
Typical home $175,292 (+6.8% in a year), asking rent $700 .
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$553 (+150%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,096 +7%
- $164,195$175,292 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,848 +46%
- $120,444$175,292 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.
- Sidney$920
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Sidney, NE rose 6.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sidney, Cheyenne County, Nebraska
Sidney is a city of 6,410 people in Cheyenne County. Half its households earn more than $54,734 a year and half less, against $60,348 across Cheyenne County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% 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 residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sidney is a small city and the seat of Cheyenne County in the Nebraska Panhandle. The people who live here are somewhat older than in much of the country, and household incomes sit below the county's as a whole. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values and rents are modest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot in July. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly dry year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in professional and business services. Walmart, Sandhills Publishing and Safeway are among the largest workplaces in Sidney. Commutes are short, and unemployment across the county is low and has held steady over the past year.
Things to do. Fort Sidney, a historic fort, is in or beside town. A longer drive away are the Lodgepole Opera House, a theatre, and North Sterling State Park, a protected area. The Mud Springs Station Archeological District, an archaeological site, is also a longer drive away.
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- 3,113households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 13 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents 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 42° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 57°. About 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sidney Municipal Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sidney
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters163
- Sandhills PublishingTrade magazine and periodical publishers and printing combined72
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores64
- Central Garden & Pet57
- HuyettBolts, metal, manufacturing45
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 401 people in all. 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- LightningVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sidney’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Sidney home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sidney$175,292
- Nebraska$278,299
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Sidney listings — the market is heating up.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Sidney17.89%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sidney43
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sidney10
Zip codes with a Sidney address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sidney — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.