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Place dossier plate
SheetNE-BOYS-TOWN-NE · Boys Town, NE 763 pop · income 52nd pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Boys Town
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Boys Town on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Mountain Gate · lowest
26,655
Mountain Gate · lowest
26,655 median HH income
26.3% of the leader · rank #1
Boys Town · this city
72,000
Boys Town · this city
72,000 median HH income
71.1% of the leader · rank #2
Brinson · near
72,000
Brinson · near
72,000 median HH income
71.1% of the leader · rank #3
Burtons Bridge · near
72,000
Burtons Bridge · near
72,000 median HH income
71.1% of the leader · rank #4
Canton · near
72,000
Canton · near
72,000 median HH income
71.1% of the leader · rank #5
Bath · near
72,000
Bath · near
72,000 median HH income
71.1% of the leader · rank #6
Lake Carroll · highest
101,250
Lake Carroll · highest
101,250 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Boys Town on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 763.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Boys Town - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Boys Town places in the 52nd percentile for household income and the 43rd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
52nd
percentile, household income
15th
percentile, median rent
43rd
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Boys Town, NE
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 763 residents in Boys Town, a small town within Nebraska. The typical household in Boys Town brings in $72,000 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 0.0%. The median resident age is 19.3 years. About 23.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 25.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Boys Town reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1580.5 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Nebraska run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Nebraska at 90.1 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Well Below Average). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,001 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Nebraska run around $207, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Natural-hazard exposure scores 25.8 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Boys Town's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from reported crime to population change to work and mobility to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Boys Town, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Boys Town?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1580.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 31% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Is Boys Town growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +196 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +46.7% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
What does the journey to work look like in Boys Town?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Working from home is the largest reported mode at 95.0%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Boys Town?
Within Nebraska, the closest population matches are Curtis (761 residents, $52,500 income); Elmwood (765 residents, $81,250 income); Cedar Bluffs (760 residents, $82,031 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Mountain Gate, CA (763 residents); Lake Carroll, IL (763 residents); Latimer, IA (763 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Above median income · poverty 0.0% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
90.1 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Nebraska average
C
City profile score · Boys Town, NE
59/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Poverty rate A+
0.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living A
90.1 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Household income C-
$72,000
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share D
23.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
575 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Boys Town profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 100/100 (A+) · 0.0%
Cost of living: 85/100 (A) · 90.1 index
Household income: 52/100 (C-) · $72,000
Bachelor's+ share: 44/100 (D) · 23.5%
Violent crime: 11/100 (F) · 575 /100k
How does Boys Town compare to other US cities?
Where Boys Town sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income52% higher than other cities
Median rent15% pricier than other cities
Safety43% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Nebraska alone, Boys Town ranks #30 of 44 Nebraska cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Boys Town against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Nebraska only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Nebraska-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Boys Town near the bottom of Nebraska's cities
Among the 450 Nebraska cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Boys Town ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Boys Town only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#147 of 439
67th percentile in Nebraska
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 450
0th percentile in Nebraska
Poverty Rate
#388 of 450
0th percentile in Nebraska
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#161 of 450
63rd percentile in Nebraska
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Nebraska only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
52nd percentile nationally for median household income · 43rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Boys Town's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Boys Town's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
Income distribution context
$72,000Boys Town, NE median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Boys Town, NE median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Boys Town, NE.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)23.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)0.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)25.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
763
Median Income
$72,000
Median Home Value
N/A
Median Age
19.3
Poverty Rate
0.0%
Labor force participation
25.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
23.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1580.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
574.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1005.7
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Boys Town's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
420 residents
2021
556 residents
2022
571 residents
2023
621 residents
2024
654 residents
2025
616 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
5.0%
Carpool
0.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
95.0%
Based on 161 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Nebraska statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $207
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Nebraska at $207 (electricity about $100 , water and sewer about $42 ).
These are Nebraska statewide averages, not a meter reading for Boys Town. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Nebraska's BEA cost-of-living index is 90.1 (Well Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Boys Town is $1,001/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Nebraska statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 25.8 / 100 (Very Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Nebraska statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Boys Town sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Boys Town compares to similar-size Nebraska cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.