Ulysses, Nebraska.
Typical home $229,566 (+5.0% in a year). Lincoln, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$721 (+149%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,861 +5%
- $218,705$229,566 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $64,956 +39%
- $164,610$229,566 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.
- Ulysses$1,205
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Ulysses, NE rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ulysses, Butler County, Nebraska
Ulysses is a village of 196 people in Butler County. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Butler County was 2.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Butler County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ulysses is a very small village in Butler County, Nebraska, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Typical home values here are modest, and the village is quiet, with few adults holding a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January and a fair amount of snow, while summers turn properly warm by July, and rain and melted snow arrive at a moderate level across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, farming and shops. Across Butler County, the largest workplaces include Timpte DC Manufacturing, which builds truck trailers, David City Public Schools, and Butler County Health Care Center. A fair number of people work from home, and unemployment across the county has stayed low and steady over the past year.
Things to do. The Surprise Opera House, a theatre, is a short drive away. Farther out, Lee's Legendary Marbles and Collectables is a museum a longer drive away, and Conestoga Lake, a reservoir, is also a longer drive away. Together they make for an easy day trip from the village.
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- 1%of adults have a degree
- 15%work from home
What people in Butler County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Butler County had 2,644 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 24 inches of snow and 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Surprise weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Butler County
- Timpte DC ManufacturingTruck trailer manufacturing583
- A-Lert Construction Services - David CityIndustrial building construction, general contractors150
- St Josephs VillaSkilled nursing facilities140
- David City Public SchoolsSchool district136FTE
- Butler County Health Care CenterCritical access hospital116FTE
- Tuls Dairy- Butler CountyMilk production, dairy cattle89
- East Butler Public SchoolsSchool district80FTE
- Summit Calf RanchCattle farming or ranching65
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,103 people in all across the county; Ulysses 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ulysses’ 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 Butler County and the Lincoln, NE metro.
Ulysses home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ulysses$229,566
- 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 Ulysses address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ulysses — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.