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Nebraska: county data, all 93 of them.

Every Nebraska county has a data page built from federal sources, each figure carrying its publisher and period. What this page does not carry is the Nebraska statutory framework, and the reason is below rather than hidden.

Counties
93
Population
1,978,707
Land area
76,820 sq mi
Establishments
55,962
Combined county GDP
$189.24 bn
SBA approvals recorded
2,895

Read this first

This is a county directory, not a state guide.

The county pages below are complete. They carry demographics, growth and migration, economic output, employment and wages, business establishments by industry, the construction pipeline, the SBA lending record including charge off rates, geography and hazard. Every figure names its publisher and the period it describes.

What is missing is the Nebraska legal and regulatory frame: how zoning and land development codes work in this state, what the entitlement path looks like, which agencies permit what, and which statutes override local codes. That material requires a research pack for Nebraska, and no such pack exists yet.

Why there is no state guide here

You cannot write Nebraska zoning law from a population table. Everything on the county pages is derived from federal datasets that cover all counties equally; statutory analysis is not, and generating it anyway would produce confident text about the law that nothing behind it supports.

Florida and California have research packs and therefore have full state guides. The remaining eight, including this one, do not. That is stated rather than papered over.

Counties

All 93 Nebraska county-equivalents.

Nebraska counties: population, income, establishments and SBA activity
GeographyPopulationMedian incomeEstablishmentsCounty GDPSBA approvalsLand area, sq mi
Adams County31,052$68,365989$2.66 bn8563
Antelope County6,305$66,105218$776.6 m5857
Arthur County484$76,25012$33.2 mNone recorded715
Banner County742$78,8396$48.7 m1746
Blaine County422$69,58313$50.8 mNone recorded711
Boone County5,356$74,947199$575.7 m5687
Box Butte County10,714$68,892291$724.9 m71,075
Boyd County1,688$67,04563$139.8 m1540
Brown County2,869$54,676145$265.6 mNone recorded1,221
Buffalo County50,579$75,9111,777$4.46 bn77968
Burt County6,740$63,685192$437.5 m6492
Butler County8,424$79,268221$584.0 m11585
Cass County27,161$91,836615$1.15 bn36557
Cedar County8,315$73,578288$562.2 m8740
Chase County3,671$68,173157$433.6 m13894
Cherry County5,498$66,270214$484.9 m65,960
Cheyenne County9,533$60,348281$686.7 m91,196
Clay County6,095$78,986183$469.1 m3572
Colfax County10,641$82,530254$1.02 bn6412
Cuming County8,975$71,104332$1.07 bn9571
Custer County10,518$67,906370$882.3 m112,576
Dakota County21,354$70,329427$2.42 bn13264
Dawes County8,140$56,280249$394.8 m11,396
Dawson County24,202$69,880672$2.22 bn211,013
Deuel County1,847$70,09654$87.6 m3440
Dixon County5,545$72,454107$480.2 m1476
Dodge County37,351$74,329992$3.06 bn50529
Douglas County590,736$80,39116,710$73.77 bn970328
Dundy County1,736$58,92257$240.8 m2920
Fillmore County5,541$76,295206$559.5 m7575
Franklin County2,846$60,19582$125.3 m1576
Frontier County2,569$70,13270$104.2 m10975
Furnas County4,568$61,048148$300.4 m5719
Gage County21,629$67,247637$1.58 bn50851
Garden County1,761$41,88246$106.6 m11,704
Garfield County1,718$62,804102$114.3 mNone recorded570
Gosper County2,040$77,50062$122.9 mNone recorded458
Grant County626$70,14727$48.2 mNone recorded776
Greeley County2,202$63,92979$192.4 m1570
Hall County62,536$69,2511,857$5.29 bn70546
Hamilton County9,464$83,994327$926.7 m7543
Harlan County2,847$70,62587$267.4 m1553
Hayes County843$69,25017$94.6 mNone recorded713
Hitchcock County2,569$51,56772$182.2 m8710
Holt County10,102$68,513429$913.3 m172,412
Hooker County647$49,46425$38.8 m1721
Howard County6,534$76,767176$288.3 m3569
Jefferson County7,161$59,044217$556.9 m4570
Johnson County5,261$57,632102$252.7 m2376
Kearney County6,713$78,631180$618.2 m5516
Keith County8,219$60,645340$526.3 m211,062
Keya Paha County822$64,00019$52.9 mNone recorded773
Kimball County3,248$56,712113$263.4 mNone recorded952
Knox County8,363$64,636249$873.9 m41,108
Lancaster County326,696$74,7938,999$28.82 bn668838
Lincoln County33,802$65,1481,018$3.31 bn782,564
Logan County773$74,27119$40.2 mNone recorded571
Loup County578$71,66715$59.8 mNone recorded568
Madison County35,532$63,1281,232$3.23 bn41573
McPherson County475$58,6846$33.3 mNone recorded859
Merrick County7,724$68,354249$554.2 m7485
Morrill County4,534$58,500122$472.9 m51,424
Nance County3,324$65,17985$216.4 m3442
Nemaha County7,046$60,924178$1.06 bn2407
Nuckolls County4,087$73,976156$383.7 m2575
Otoe County16,241$82,188470$1.79 bn20616
Pawnee County2,530$62,18869$140.9 m7431
Perkins County2,821$72,778126$407.2 m4883
Phelps County9,009$68,919353$1.03 bn3540
Pierce County7,325$72,357238$737.8 m11573
Platte County34,716$71,5521,033$3.86 bn52674
Polk County5,225$69,768134$467.1 m3438
Red Willow County10,557$63,697400$736.8 m16717
Richardson County7,751$60,108250$499.3 m3552
Rock County1,319$58,12547$133.5 mNone recorded1,008
Saline County14,650$79,910321$1.29 bn12574
Sarpy County197,389$103,3214,106$13.67 bn280239
Saunders County23,048$94,066604$1.09 bn34750
Scotts Bluff County35,843$63,6141,017$2.38 bn42739
Seward County17,641$82,444485$1.09 bn16571
Sheridan County5,014$60,121153$436.7 m62,441
Sherman County2,967$63,57888$157.7 mNone recorded566
Sioux County1,171$53,92916$128.8 mNone recorded2,067
Stanton County5,796$80,687104$424.9 m7428
Thayer County4,901$66,213213$535.5 m1574
Thomas County564$65,00023$50.1 m1713
Thurston County6,627$69,177125$605.3 m4394
Valley County4,066$61,852181$385.3 m3568
Washington County21,106$94,396666$1.90 bn21390
Wayne County9,844$66,215252$804.4 m11443
Webster County3,360$64,34793$364.1 mNone recorded575
Wheeler County847$70,25021$96.9 mNone recorded575
York County14,286$77,757538$1.25 bn31573

The register

Every source behind these 93 pages.

SourcePeriod coveredLicence
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates2020-2024 5-yearUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2024Vintage 2024, estimates 2020 to 2024US Census Bureau, public domain
US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2CAGDP2, through 2024US Bureau of Economic Analysis, public domain
US EPA, Map of Radon Zones, county spreadsheet2024-05 publication, EPA 402/A-16/001US EPA, public domain
FEMA OpenFEMA, NFIP Community Status BookCommunity Status Book, as retrievedFEMA OpenFEMA, public domain
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA releaseFY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30FOIA release, public domain
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA releaseFY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30FOIA release, public domain
US Census Bureau county boundary geometry, TIGER, adjacency computed from shared boundary verticesTIGER county boundariesUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns2023US Census Bureau, public domain
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages2024 annual averagesUS BLS, public domain
US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey2024 annualUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows2021 to 2022 filing yearsIRS SOI, public domain

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