West of 204th Street, Douglas County
Elkhorn
Elkhorn spent most of its life as a separate town and still behaves like one. Omaha annexed it in 2007 over the objections of nearly everyone who lived there, and two decades on the identity has not dissolved — people west of 204th say they live in Elkhorn, not Omaha, and they mean it.
The Elkhorn market
Awaiting MLS feed- Median list price
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- Updated with the feed
These figures populate from the Great Plains Regional MLS once the team’s IDX agreement covers this domain. Nothing here is estimated in the meantime. Mapped to Elkhorn.
The shape of it
The old village core sits along Main Street, a few blocks of pre-war buildings that predate the subdivisions around them by a century. Everything else is newer, and the further west you go the newer it gets: build dates climb decade by decade from the 1990s stock near 204th out to construction still going up past 216th.
Past the last platted street the lots stop being lots and start being acreages — five, ten, twenty acres running toward the Elkhorn River bottoms. That transition is the thing outsiders miss. You can buy a tract home on a quarter acre and a horse property four minutes away, in the same school district.
Why people pay for it
Elkhorn Public Schools is the short answer, and it is most of the answer. The district has its own high schools rather than feeding into Omaha or Millard, and that separation is what buyers are paying for when they insist on being west of 204th.
The second reason is inventory age. A buyer who wants a house built this decade has far more to choose from here than anywhere else in the metro, and new construction keeps the resale stock honest — a twelve-year-old house has to compete with a new one on the next street.
Schools
- Elkhorn Public Schools
- Independent of Omaha and Millard. Elkhorn High, Elkhorn South and Elkhorn North, which opened in 2020 to absorb growth the other two could not.
District boundaries change and are the district’s to publish. Confirm assignment for any specific address before it matters to your decision.
Who it suits
- Buyers who want new construction and are willing to go west for it
- Families choosing a district first and a house second
- Anyone who wants acreage without leaving a good school system
- Less suited to a buyer who wants a short downtown commute — this is the far western edge of the metro