Elkhorn sits at the western edge of Douglas County, where subdivision streets give way to fairway edges and the parcels of Elkhorn Ridge Golf Course just outside town. The housing that has gone up around that ground is almost entirely detached: nearly all the homes for sale here are standalone houses on their own lots, with private driveways and their own yards, rather than attached units in a condo or townhouse development. That shapes what you are shopping for from the first click, because the trade-off is rarely house versus apartment, it is which house, on which kind of lot, with which features underneath it. Stevens Real Estate works this market daily and knows how those lots differ street to street.
Elkhorn at a Glance
- County
- Douglas County
- ZIP codes in these listings
- 68022 · 68135
- Typical asking price
- $635,000, middle half $504,389-$779,900 (median of 211 homes, excluding 269 land and other non-dwelling listings)
- Typical sold price
- $535,000, middle half $400,000-$679,900 (median of 723 home sales, excluding 12 land and other non-dwelling sales, past 12 months)
- Typical home
- 3,161 sq ft, middle half 2,556-3,676 (n=211) · 5 bed / 3 bath (medians, n=211)
- Typical days to sell
- 89 days (median of 723 closed home sales, past 12 months)
- Months of supply
- 3.5 (seller's market, homes only)
- Sold-to-list
- 100% of asking (median per home sale, n=723) · 21.6% sold above asking
- Data current as of
- August 2026
Homes with a 3-car garage in Elkhorn
You park inside, and the bikes, the tools and the lawn equipment finally have a home that is not the hallway or the driveway. That third bay is the difference between a garage and a working room: a workbench along one wall, a trailer that does not sit at the curb all winter, two cars that still get doors that open fully. The median sale across 548 of these sales lands at about $608,000, with a typical build year of 2026, and a stretch of roughly 86 days between listing and closing. Living with one means the overhead door becomes the door you actually use, groceries come in dry, and the windshield does not need scraping in February.
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Homes with a walkout basement in Elkhorn
A walkout changes what the lower level is. Instead of a stairwell and small egress windows, you get a full-height door to grade, daylight down there, and a floor that functions as real living space rather than storage. Owning one means you are maintaining two ground-level entries, two sets of exterior doors, and grading that has to keep working around the lower slab. The median sale here is around $637,000 across 246 sales, typically built in 2025, with roughly 78 days from listing to close. Practically, it means you carry patio furniture out the bottom door and never up a flight of stairs.
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Homes with a pool in Elkhorn
You swim when you feel like it, at six in the morning or after dark, without booking anything, sharing it with anyone, or walking a step to reach it. That is what a private pool buys, and in Elkhorn it is a small pocket of the market: 32 sales, a median around $1,147,500, and roughly 72 days between listing and closing. What follows the water is yours too, the pump and filter schedule, the winter cover, the fencing, and a yard that is planned around a rectangle of water rather than around grass. Ask what equipment conveys and how the heater is fueled before you write. Then the back door becomes the most used door in the house from May onward.
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Ranch homes in Elkhorn
Single-level living puts everything on one floor: bedrooms, laundry, kitchen, no stairs between you and any of it. It also spreads the footprint, so you are maintaining a wider roof and a larger slab or basement lid than a two-story of the same square footage would ask of you. In Elkhorn the median ranch sale is about $570,000 across 392 sales, typically built in 2026, with roughly 90 days from listing to close. Day to day, it means the vacuum never goes up a staircase and the mechanical room is a short walk from wherever you are standing.
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What owning here asks of you
The stock is young. The typical home here was built in 2025, with the middle half falling between 2018 and 2025, which means nothing major is due yet. Spend your inspection dollars on how well the house was put together rather than on how much life is left in the roof or the furnace. Among closed sales, the most common layout sold was the four-bedroom, at a median of $490,000 across 255 of them, and the largest single band of sale prices sits between $500,000 and $1,000,000. What governs the property varies: some homes fall inside a subdivision with an association, its dues and its recorded rules, and some sit under nothing at all. Establish which applies to any listing you get serious about, along with what a recurring fee actually pays for. Then the mowing, the gutters and the driveway are back on your own calendar.
Schools named in Elkhorn listings
School fields are one of the first things buyers here filter on, so it helps to know what those fields actually are. Roughly a third of listings name Elkhorn as the high school, with about one in six naming Elkhorn South and about one in six naming Elkhorn North. On the middle school line, about a quarter name Elkhorn North Ridge, about a quarter name Elkhorn, and about one in ten name Elkhorn Valley View. Those entries are typed in by the listing agent, not pulled from district assignments. Boundaries shift and listing fields go stale, so treat what you see as what the listing says, and confirm the current assignment for a specific address with the school district itself.
What to pin down before you make an offer
- Sump pump and foundation drainage systems given clay soil.
- Sanitary and improvement district assessments on newer subdivisions.
- HOA dues, reserves, and covenant restrictions.
- School district boundaries and attendance zones.
- Basement egress and finished basement permitting.
Working with Stevens Real Estate
Stevens Real Estate has spent years inside this market, and that shows up in small, practical ways: walking a garage with you and telling you plainly what will fit in the third bay and what will not, so you are weighing the house against how you actually live rather than against a floor plan. The options on this page are real options, and the right one depends on which parts of a house you want to use every day and which parts you would rather not think about. Take your time with that, and you end up in a home that fits and a decision you feel settled about.
