State profile · NE

Largest Cities in Nebraska

Name: Nebraska Cities: Population, Income & Housing Data
Creator: PlainCities
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Ranked by resident population across 450 tracked cities and towns in Nebraska, using Census ACS 5-Year Estimates (2023). This compares cities and Census-designated places, not metropolitan areas, and carries the same rows into the chart, table, and downloadable CSV below.

Compiled by PlainCities

450
Cities: 1.6M
Combined city pop.: $66,362
Avg median income: 7.4%
Avg poverty rate

Data updated August 2026

The headline finding

Omaha is the largest of 450 tracked cities in Nebraska, which ranks #32 of 52 nationally on avg median income.

Omaha
largest tracked city (488,197 people): #32
national rank, avg median income: 450
cities tracked in this state

Every figure here is read live from the same table rendered below.

96% of Nebraska's 450 tracked cities are small towns under 10,000 people -- none crosses the 1-million-resident mark.

<10K

433
10K-99K

15
100K-999K

2

What this shows Small towns under 10,000 residents are the largest group in PlainCities' Nebraska coverage, with 433 of 450 tracked places. This is a count of profiled places, not a share of the state's population.

How we calculate this mix & the national home-value percentile below

Every tracked city in Nebraska is bucketed by population: small town under 10,000; mid-size 10,000–99,999; large 100,000–999,999; megacity 1,000,000+. The national home-value comparison below plots Nebraska's average tracked-city home value against all 52 US states/territories, ranked the same way as the per-city percentiles: the state's percentile is the share of states with a lower average home value. See the methodology page for the full source-to-figure lineage.

Omaha

488,197
Lincoln

291,932
Bellevue

64,355
Grand Island

52,761
Kearney

34,024
Fremont

27,321
Norfolk

25,962
Hastings

25,005
Columbus

24,188
Papillion

24,063
North Platte

23,030
La Vista

16,594

What this shows Omaha, NE is the most populous city profiled in Nebraska; the top 100 rows are listed below and the complete 450-row record is available as a CSV.

How Nebraska ranks nationally

Avg median income

$66,362

#32 of 52 · highest income

Avg home value

$130,182

#46 of 52 · highest values

Avg poverty rate

7.4%

#13 of 52 · lowest poverty

Tracked cities

450

#27 of 52 · most tracked cities

Nebraska ranks #32 of 52 nationally on average median income and #13 of 52 on average poverty rate, derived live by comparing it against every other tracked state. Averages are computed only across the cities PlainCities tracks in each state, not full state populations.

How Nebraska's home values compare nationally

Average tracked-city home value vs. all 52 US states/territories

$130,182 Among the most affordable more affordable than 88% of 52 US states

Show national distribution

Each bar is a $50K-wide band; taller bars hold more US states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023

Largest cities in Nebraska

Showing the 100 most-populous tracked places, ordered by population. Download the CSV for every one of the 450 city records and their source-backed fields.

#	City	Population	Median Income	Home Value	Poverty
1	Omaha	488,197	$72,708	$230,100	8.3%
2	Lincoln	291,932	$69,991	$248,200	7.3%
3	Bellevue	64,355	$87,343	$230,800	5.7%
4	Grand Island	52,761	$62,439	$202,600	10.1%
5	Kearney	34,024	$69,790	$235,800	7.8%
6	Fremont	27,321	$67,179	$194,400	7.1%
7	Norfolk	25,962	$62,175	$199,100	6.8%
8	Hastings	25,005	$61,202	$177,200	10.3%
9	Columbus	24,188	$67,212	$198,900	7.4%
10	Papillion	24,063	$109,602	$290,900	2.9%
11	North Platte	23,030	$57,805	$159,500	11.4%
12	La Vista	16,594	$78,145	$244,900	4.0%
13	Scottsbluff	14,406	$53,448	$141,300	13.8%
14	South Sioux City	13,871	$68,397	$160,900	8.8%
15	Beatrice	12,233	$54,583	$152,900	14.3%
16	Lexington	10,693	$62,364	$155,200	13.0%
17	Chalco	10,625	$81,427	$224,400	2.4%
18	Gretna	9,117	$118,765	$326,000	3.3%
19	Gering	8,567	$70,244	$170,700	8.2%
20	York	8,114	$62,632	$170,900	5.0%
21	Alliance	8,089	$65,599	$156,300	7.7%
22	Blair	7,868	$76,292	$211,000	8.8%
23	Seward	7,665	$70,000	$232,500	4.8%
24	Crete	7,521	$76,258	$203,900	9.6%
25	McCook	7,360	$51,815	$137,400	11.4%
26	Nebraska City	7,287	$67,993	$147,800	12.9%
27	Plattsmouth	6,680	$64,296	$171,900	4.4%
28	Schuyler	6,517	$78,380	$129,600	3.2%
29	Ralston	6,445	$65,557	$215,800	4.2%
30	Sidney	6,396	$51,704	$137,300	6.1%
31	Wayne	6,055	$52,804	$198,600	10.3%
32	Offutt AFB	5,663	$67,803	N/A	4.5%
33	Holdrege	5,503	$55,263	$166,600	15.2%
34	Chadron	5,207	$54,026	$153,300	1.9%
35	Wahoo	4,885	$81,544	$227,100	9.8%
36	Ogallala	4,800	$55,481	$135,500	7.4%
37	Aurora	4,665	$71,051	$221,700	3.9%
38	Waverly	4,363	$110,000	$290,000	0.0%
39	Falls City	4,099	$45,750	$91,900	8.2%
40	Cozad	3,944	$50,161	$118,600	10.7%
41	Fairbury	3,905	$51,782	$90,800	15.4%
42	O'Neill	3,574	$66,458	$130,900	10.7%
43	Broken Bow	3,524	$56,438	$124,600	8.2%
44	West Point	3,479	$63,977	$209,200	4.7%
45	Auburn	3,468	$58,674	$98,900	8.3%
46	Gothenburg	3,436	$79,519	$173,200	4.0%
47	Valley	3,113	$106,750	$515,100	2.0%
48	Ashland	3,083	$80,948	$229,100	3.3%
49	Central City	3,039	$62,012	$158,300	5.9%
50	Minden	3,020	$64,846	$188,100	4.8%
51	David City	3,013	$66,585	$158,800	1.7%
52	Dakota City	2,980	$80,433	$170,200	7.8%
53	Hickman	2,834	$104,219	$294,200	1.1%
54	Milford	2,656	$80,997	$225,200	3.6%
55	Valentine	2,632	$53,438	$135,600	2.9%
56	St. Paul	2,574	$58,493	$184,400	3.3%
57	Bennington	2,417	$98,375	$337,600	3.2%
58	Geneva	2,214	$79,750	$156,900	3.4%
59	Beaver Lake	2,198	$136,364	$384,500	0.0%
60	Ord	2,186	$53,274	$109,500	10.4%
61	Imperial	2,182	$71,667	$176,700	9.8%
62	Wilber	2,178	$80,227	$154,700	6.6%
63	Kimball	2,153	$57,153	$105,700	8.2%
64	Madison	2,074	$56,932	$116,000	13.7%
65	Pierce	1,986	$64,167	$157,600	3.0%
66	Syracuse	1,964	$70,625	$190,000	4.7%
67	Tecumseh	1,844	$46,127	$104,300	4.3%
68	Superior	1,833	$61,852	$69,300	2.2%
69	Stanton	1,824	$73,571	$161,300	4.0%
70	Mitchell	1,804	$50,250	$114,900	9.1%
71	Hartington	1,736	$78,304	$169,000	2.7%
72	Albion	1,733	$70,761	$210,800	3.1%
73	Tekamah	1,691	$54,139	$113,900	15.3%
74	Woodland Park	1,648	$77,880	$161,500	5.1%
75	Gordon	1,646	$58,906	$93,300	7.5%
76	Gibbon	1,643	$69,762	$151,700	7.9%
77	Hebron	1,641	$61,207	$117,400	4.5%
78	Neligh	1,636	$60,000	$145,100	1.7%
79	Ainsworth	1,632	$51,667	$90,500	9.9%
80	Springfield	1,620	$92,153	$237,300	0.9%
81	Oakland	1,572	$66,202	$150,600	9.4%
82	Yutan	1,535	$89,531	$184,900	0.0%
83	Bayard	1,509	$61,818	$107,900	4.5%
84	Battle Creek	1,478	$93,750	$188,100	2.6%
85	Fullerton	1,463	$54,375	$120,700	15.2%
86	Arlington	1,437	$95,278	$222,500	3.1%
87	Wisner	1,436	$66,875	$134,800	5.2%
88	Atkinson	1,433	$72,857	$147,600	5.2%
89	Wood River	1,426	$76,591	$131,400	9.4%
90	Bridgeport	1,403	$59,643	$100,600	9.8%
91	Louisville	1,393	$97,115	$204,700	2.8%
92	Grant	1,392	$70,000	$148,800	6.2%
93	Buccaneer Bay	1,361	$140,517	$316,000	0.0%
94	Ceresco	1,355	$103,906	$186,300	0.6%
95	Shelton	1,354	$75,781	$137,100	5.9%
96	Ravenna	1,352	$64,844	$129,600	8.2%
97	Sutton	1,349	$80,714	$151,300	4.4%
98	Wakefield	1,288	$57,500	$110,300	2.5%
99	Wymore	1,287	$56,051	$57,600	9.2%
100	Pender	1,262	$67,419	$165,900	2.2%

What to do with Nebraska's city data

450 cities is a lot to browse, here's where to start.

Omaha is Nebraska's largest tracked city by population, start there if you want the fullest picture of a major NE metro. Omaha profile
Buccaneer Bay has the highest median household income of any tracked city in Nebraska, a different lens than population size alone. Buccaneer Bay profile
See how Nebraska's cities stack up nationally, not just against each other. National rankings

City counts and averages on this page cover only the 450 places with sufficient Census ACS data, smaller towns below the reporting threshold are not included.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Primary sources: Census ACS, FBI UCR, NOAA Climate Normals, NCES.

Compare beyond this state

Nationwide similar states

Other states closest to Nebraska on two ACS statewide axes: tracked-city population sum and mean of city median household incomes. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a claim that peers share a labor market or climate.

Similar statewide population

Nearest 50-state peers by ACS population of tracked cities. This state: 1,577,358.

4 peers

Similar mean household income

Nearest peers by mean of city median household incomes. This state: $66,362. Population peers are excluded.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many cities does PlainCities track in Nebraska?

PlainCities profiles 450 cities and towns in Nebraska, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (2023).

What is the largest city in Nebraska?

Omaha is the largest tracked city in Nebraska, with a population of 488,197.

What is the average household income in Nebraska?

Across the 450 tracked cities in Nebraska, the average median household income is $66,362. Individual cities vary widely, with Buccaneer Bay reporting the highest median income at $140,517.

What is the average poverty rate in Nebraska?

The average poverty rate across Nebraska's tracked cities is 7.4%, based on Census ACS 5-Year Estimates (2023).

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