Our Mission
Our mission is to make sure property is fairly and equally assessed. We work hard to make sure no one property owner shoulders more than their fair share of the county-wide valuation.
Welcome to the Douglas County Assessor website!
Roger F Morrissey
This site is designed to provide you with a useful resource for practical information about property values and the assessment process. Comparable sales data and maps are easily accessible. Here you can also find answers to commonly asked questions about property assessments. There are a number of programs and services the Douglas County Assessor administers, so please take time to visit the various web pages for more information. Although Douglas County has the largest number of properties in the State of Nebraska with more than 212,206 parcels, each property owner matters and deserves the best possible service by phone, at our office and over the Internet. Just click on the Feedback tab.
News From the Assessor's Office:
To Our Customers
Welcome to the new and improved Douglas County Assessor's Website! We have made some changes to our site to better serve you. Here are a few of the improvements we have made:
- Valuation lookup is more user friendly than ever. See the new page by clicking the valuation lookup photo, or by clicking here.
- Our subdivision sales search (formerly known as auto sales search) will now map the results for you. To use this feature, go to a property record and click subdivision sales search, then click "View Interactive GIS Map".
- Property records have been upgraded. Each record now includes a Google map, and the sales information has been arranged to be more user friendly.
- Our GIS mapping will allow you to view your results in Google and Bing maps for greater flexibility. See it here by doing a property search and clicking "View Interactive GIS Map" on the property record.
For help using our valuation lookup, simply go to the valuation lookup page and click help.
If you have any suggestions, questions, or concerns about the website, please let us know. We appreciate your feedback!
Press Releases
The Assessor's Office Now Offers Online Filing of Your Business Personal Property Return
Foreclosure Help
Lately, there have been a number of articles in newspapers and magazines about the rising rate of home mortgage foreclosures throughout the United States. Although Douglas County has fewer foreclosures than many other counties, for those who are having trouble keeping up with their mortgages, there are steps a homeowner can take to avoid foreclosure.
First, if you get behind on your mortgage payments, contact your lender. Let them know that it is not your intention to abandon the home. Depending on your lender and type of mortgage, there may be loss mitigation programs available to you that could involve anything from partial payments to a loan that would enable you to bring your mortgage current. In order to learn about whether such programs are available for your situation, you need to contact your lender.
Second, stay in your home. Hopefully, being behind on your mortgage is a temporary situation that you can work out with your lender. But even if that is not the case, vacant and abandoned houses are targets for theft and vandalism–events that will diminish the desirability and value of the home. If, for whatever reason, you do need to leave your home, take any pets with you. In the event that no one occupies the home for weeks or months, your pets will be at risk without anyone to care for them.
Finally, there are agencies that you can call for assistance. The United Way has a 2-1-1 number that can direct you to a variety of services. For people having trouble keeping up with their mortgages, the United Way provides the names and numbers of two entities: Family Housing Advisory Services, (402)934-7921 and Consumer Credit Counseling, (402)333-2227.