Walton, Nebraska.
Typical home $684,461 (+6.6% in a year). Lincoln, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,853 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $42,576 +7%
- $641,886$684,461 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $134,343 +24%
- $550,119$684,461 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.
- Walton$3,593
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Walton, NE rose 6.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Walton, Lancaster County, Nebraska
Walton, in Lancaster County, had 351 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Lancaster County was 2.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lancaster 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Walton is a very small community in Lancaster County, Nebraska, with a population that is older than in most places. Few households here live below the poverty line, and homes are valued well above what is typical across much of the country. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in manufacturing. Across Lancaster County, the largest workplaces include the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln Public Schools and Bryan Medical Center. Joblessness in the county is low and has eased slightly over the past year, and the daily commute is a short one.
Things to do. A short drive away, Memorial Stadium is the stadium that draws crowds on football weekends, and the Lincoln Children's Zoo is a good outing for families. The University of Nebraska State Museum and the Sheldon Museum of Art are both museums close by. For a longer day out, the Strategic Air and Space Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 2%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
What people in Lancaster County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lancaster County had 176,943 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lincoln Ene weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lancaster County
- University of Nebraska-LincolnUniversity or college6,502
- Lincoln Public SchoolsSchool district6,162FTE
- Bryan Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,659FTE
- Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing Corp., U.S.A., Consumer Products1,633
- Duncan Aviation LNKAircraft maintenance and repair services1,593
- Southeast Community College AreaTwo-year college1,187
- Sandhills PublishingTrade magazine and periodical publishers and printing combined1,059
- ZoetisVaccines manufacturing992
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 267 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 35,019 people in all across the county; Walton has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherVery 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 Walton’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 Lancaster County and the Lincoln, NE metro.
Walton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Walton$684,461
- 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 Walton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Walton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.