Venango, Nebraska.
Typical home $156,695 (+0.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$467 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,457 +1%
- $155,238$156,695 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $22,108 +16%
- $134,587$156,695 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.
- Venango$822
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Venango, NE rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Venango, Perkins County, Nebraska
Venango is a village of 157 people in Perkins County. Half its households earn more than $74,500 a year and half less, against $72,778 across Perkins County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Perkins County was 2.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Perkins County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Venango is a very small village in Perkins County, Nebraska, where neighbors are likely to know one another by sight. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than in many places. Homes cost less than in much of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while July brings hot summer days.
Work. Residents work mostly on the land and in the services that keep a rural area running: farming, forestry and mining, schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Perkins County, the largest workplaces include Perkins County Health Services, Perkins County Schools and Hi Line Cooperative. Joblessness in the county is low and has held steady over the past year, and the county has added a few jobs.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Lodgepole Creek is a river a longer drive away, and Grant City Park is a park, also a longer drive away. History-minded visitors can head to the Diamond Springs Stage Station Site, an archaeological site that is likewise a longer drive from the village.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
What people in Perkins County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Perkins County had 1,145 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 61°. About 22 inches of snow and 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Julesburg weather station, 19 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Perkins County
- Perkins County Health ServicesCritical access hospital115FTE
- Perkins County SchoolsSchool district79FTE
- Hi Line CooperativeChemicals, agricultural, merchant wholesalers36
- Hi-Line CooperativeChemicals, agricultural, merchant wholesalers36
- The Midwest Electric CooperativeDistribution of electric power34
- Mid America Agri Products/WheatlandDenatured alcohol manufacturing31
- CharlesWater well pump and well piping system installation25
- Aurora Cooperative - Grant AgronomyAgricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 182 people in all across the county; Venango has none 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
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Venango’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 Perkins County.
Venango home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Venango$156,695
- 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 Venango address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Venango — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.