Whitney, Nebraska.
Typical home $287,195 (+11.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$923 (+158%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $29,543 +11%
- $257,652$287,195 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $103,326 +56%
- $183,869$287,195 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.
- Whitney$1,507
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Whitney, NE rose 11.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Whitney, Dawes County, Nebraska
Whitney is a village of 62 people in Dawes County. Half its households earn more than $71,458 a year and half less, against $56,280 across Dawes County. Unemployment in Dawes County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dawes County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Whitney is a village in Dawes County in northwest Nebraska, and it is very small, with a quiet pace of life. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with rain and melted snow arriving through the year. Residents live among open country, and the village has the feel of a place where people know one another.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, shops, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or government. Household incomes in Whitney are higher than the county's typical household income across Dawes County. Across Dawes County, unemployment has eased slightly of late, while the number of jobs has dipped a little.
Things to do. Fort Robinson, a fort a longer drive away, is the best known place on the nearby list and includes the Trailside Museum of Natural History at Fort Robinson State Park. Toadstool Geologic Park, a protected area a longer drive away, is a good stop for anyone interested in landforms.
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What people in Dawes County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dawes County had 3,088 jobs in 2025, 2.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 60°. About 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chadron Municipal Airport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dawes County
- Chadron State CollegeUniversity or college349
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters185
- Chadron Community HospitalCritical access hospital129FTE
- Chadron Public SchoolsSchool district95FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture71
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores47
- Crest View Care CenterSkilled nursing facilities43
- Crawford Public SchoolsSchool district40FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 275 people in all across the county; Whitney has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively 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 Whitney’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 Dawes County.
Whitney home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Whitney$287,195
- 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 Whitney address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Whitney — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.