Stratton, Nebraska.
Typical home $155,392 (+3.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$485 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,659 +3%
- $150,733$155,392 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,784 +29%
- $120,608$155,392 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.
- Stratton$816
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Stratton, NE rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stratton, Hitchcock County, Nebraska
Stratton is a village of 310 people in Hitchcock County. Half its households earn more than $34,643 a year and half less, against $51,567 across Hitchcock County. Unemployment in Hitchcock County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hitchcock 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stratton is a very small village in Hitchcock County, Nebraska, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Household incomes are well below the county's, and a typical home costs less than in much of the country. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers turn hot, with July the warmest month.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in farming, shops, and transport and warehousing. Across Hitchcock County, the largest workplaces include the Hitchcock County school system and Kugler Oil Company, which makes ammonium sulfate. Unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year, while the number of jobs has grown. Only a small share of residents work from home, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. The nearest outdoor options are rivers and a reservoir, each a longer drive away. The South Fork Republican River and Frenchman Creek are both river settings for time near the water. Enders Reservoir State Recreation Area is a protected area, also a longer drive, and the Shirley Opera House is a theatre for an evening out, likewise a longer drive from the village.
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- 170households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 5%work from home
What people in Hitchcock County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hitchcock County had 656 jobs in 2025, 2.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 63°. About 22 inches of snow and 20 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Trenton Dam 1N weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hitchcock County
- Hitchcock CO SCH System SchoolsSchool district64FTE
- Kugler Oil Company - CDFAmmonium sulfate manufacturing61
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 61 people in all across the county; Stratton has none of its own. School districts come 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
- Strong windVery high
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Stratton’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 Hitchcock County.
Stratton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stratton$155,392
- 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.
- Stratton6
Zip codes with a Stratton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stratton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.