A typical Nickerson home is worth roughly $75,000
Builders were permitted 2 new homes in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Nickerson?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 0.5 years of income
Less than across Nebraska (3.7 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Nickerson home, with $473K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,170 a month here, $680 more than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Nickerson’s typical property tax (1.64% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
86% of Nickerson households own their home
Half of Nickerson’s homes were built before 2000.
Nebraska: 67% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,170
Renters already here pay a median of $925, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA HUD Metro FMR Area): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
2 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 2 new homes in Nickerson in 2025, all single-family houses. Over the past 10 years, Nickerson has permitted 3 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Nickerson's population fell by 57 even though 1 new home was permitted. Homes are holding fewer people: households are getting smaller, or more homes are used part of the year. Across Nebraska: 1.8 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 1 | 1 | 0 | $367,000 |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $734,000 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $353,000 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $100,000 |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2005 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $270,000 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $45,000 |
| 2003 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $583,000 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $30,000 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $90,000 |
| 2000 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $75,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
On the market in Nickerson
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Neighbors talk housing
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.