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U.S. Census Bureau · 2025 Population Estimates Program (PEP)

Nebraska County Population — 2025 PEP

July 1, 2025 resident population estimates for 93 counties. State total (sum of these county estimates): 2,018,006 persons.

Separate 2025 TIGER/Line county boundaries validate county identity; these are not ACS 2024 survey estimates.

Official Vintage 2025 county identities and unsimplified TIGER coordinates; separate-period ACS housing is joined only by exact full GEOID. Original 2020 counts require separately evidenced compatible geography; incompatible observations remain null with reasons. The revised April estimates base is not an original census count; no boundary allocation is invented.

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2025 Census PEP county estimates, 2020–2025 series; counts are persons, migration counts are persons, published rates are per 1,000, and unavailable values remain null (not zero). 2020 rates are unavailable for the partial-year interval. County totals and characteristics are verified against the pinned raw Census CSV receipts and independent 2025 county geometry.

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Official state totals and county summaries

Official NST July 1, 2025 state total: 2,018,006 persons (SUMLEV 040, PEP Vintage 2025). County sum: 2,018,006 persons; comparison status: equal.

Official NST July 2020: 1,963,318 persons; July 2020–July 2025 change: +54,688 persons; growth: 2.785489 percent (denominator: official July 2020 population).

County July 2024–July 2025: Growing: 41 · Shrinking: 52 · Unchanged: 0 · Missing: 0. Median county growth: -0.146359 percent.

Largest county: Douglas County (GEOID 31055): 606460 persons.

Fastest county growth: Kimball County (GEOID 31105): 2.819891 percent.

Greatest numeric increase: Douglas County (GEOID 31055): 5557 persons.

no minimum population; missing excluded per measure; median of county percentages, not population weighted; equal values use ascending full GEOID.

Official state demographics

Resident population · SUMLEV 040 · July 1, 2025 · Census PEP Vintage 2025. Denominator for every share: 2,018,006 resident persons. Six exclusive race groups; Hispanic origin overlaps race and must not be added to it. Release: June 2026; exact day unproved; PEP estimates have no ACS sampling MOE.

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Official state age, sex, race and overlapping Hispanic origin
MeasureCountShare
Female1,010,661 persons50.082160 percent
Male1,007,345 persons49.917840 percent
Ages 18–24204,750 persons10.146154 percent
Ages 25–44522,182 persons25.876137 percent
Ages 45–64443,494 persons21.976842 percent
Ages 65 and older368,331 persons18.252225 percent
Under 18479,249 persons23.748641 percent
American Indian or Alaska Native alone42,305 persons2.096376 percent
Asian alone63,602 persons3.151725 percent
Black or African American alone116,317 persons5.763957 percent
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander alone2,672 persons0.132408 percent
Two or more races88,240 persons4.372633 percent
White alone1,704,870 persons84.482900 percent
Hispanic (any race)290,516 persons14.396191 percent
Not Hispanic1,727,490 persons85.603809 percent

Official state median age: 37.5 years. Published state SYASEX median age; not a county aggregation, not ACS.

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Revised April 1, 2020 estimates base (official NST): 1,961,980 persons; county base sum: 1,961,980 persons; comparison: equal. This is not the original decennial census count.

Original April 1, 2020 Census count: 91 compatible counties; 2 unavailable. Published Census county centers-of-population POPULATION, original 2020 Gazetteer and official 2020–2025 geographic-change evidence; no boundary allocation. Original count, revised April estimates base and July 2020 estimate are separate observations. Documentation: November 2021; exact file release day unproved; retrieval is not release. Official original count source. Original 2020 Gazetteer identity plus Census geographic-change notes 2014–2025; no county-level change recorded from 2020 onward, exact full modern name, and original count required. Any recorded county-level change or referenced counterparty is conservatively unavailable, including unresolved internal redistricting. Same GEOID alone is insufficient. Not a claim of identical cartographic coordinates; no invented allocations.

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PEP population · persons · July 1, 2025. Denominator: none. Calculation/source: CO POPESTIMATEy. Vintage 2025; null with metric_status reason; measured zero remains zero; no imputation.

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July 1, 2025 · Douglas County (GEOID 31055). Same-period county population is the share denominator. Hispanic origin overlaps race; do not add origin to race counts. Other overlapping classifications are not additive. Official county median age is from PEP AGESEX MEDIAN_AGE_TOT, not ACS.

County demographics: counts, shares and official median age
Classification / sourceCount or statisticShare / status
Sex · PEP male299,281 persons49.348844 percent
Sex · PEP female307,179 persons50.651156 percent
Age bands · PEP under18147,695 persons24.353626 percent
Age bands · PEP age18 2458,255 persons9.605745 percent
Age bands · PEP age25 44176,234 persons29.059460 percent
Age bands · PEP age45 64130,609 persons21.536293 percent
Age bands · PEP age65plus93,667 persons15.444877 percent
Race alone (partition) · PEP white alone458,172 persons75.548593 percent
Race alone (partition) · PEP black alone72,547 persons11.962372 percent
Race alone (partition) · PEP aian alone11,837 persons1.951819 percent
Race alone (partition) · PEP asian alone32,429 persons5.347261 percent
Race alone (partition) · PEP nhpi alone618 persons0.101903 percent
Race alone (partition) · PEP two or more30,857 persons5.088052 percent
Hispanic origin (overlaps race) · PEP hispanic any race98,939 persons16.314184 percent
Hispanic origin (overlaps race) · PEP not hispanic507,521 persons83.685816 percent
Other overlapping classifications (not additive) · PEP white alone or combination486,799 persons80.268938 percent
Other overlapping classifications (not additive) · PEP not hispanic white alone382,543 persons63.078027 percent
Official county median age · AGESEX MEDIAN_AGE_TOT35.7 yearsNot a share; not ACS or an average of county medians

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2025 county population rankings

All 93 county estimates are present without JavaScript, ranked by 2025 population (largest first). Signed changes compare July 1, 2024 to July 1, 2025. Unavailable is not zero; equal values break ties by GEOID (ascending).

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Nebraska County Population — 2025 PEP — July 1, 2025; rank reflects the selected ordering
RankCountyGEOIDPopulation (persons)Signed change (persons)Signed change (percent)
1Douglas County31055606,460+5557 persons+0.924775%
2Lancaster County31109334,049+2708 persons+0.817285%
3Sarpy County31153208,303+3784 persons+1.850195%
4Hall County3107963,633-258 persons-0.403813%
5Buffalo County3101951,172+46 persons+0.089974%
6Dodge County3105338,057+126 persons+0.332182%
7Madison County3111936,106+313 persons+0.874473%
8Platte County3114135,649-8 persons-0.022436%
9Scotts Bluff County3115735,586-72 persons-0.201918%
10Lincoln County3111133,303+18 persons+0.054078%
11Adams County3100131,071-132 persons-0.423036%
12Cass County3102527,657+156 persons+0.567252%
13Dawson County3104724,452-75 persons-0.305785%
14Saunders County3115523,702+258 persons+1.100495%
15Gage County3106721,711+23 persons+0.106049%
16Dakota County3104321,687+193 persons+0.897925%
17Washington County3117721,302+15 persons+0.070466%
18Seward County3115918,032+142 persons+0.793740%
19Otoe County3113116,531+59 persons+0.358184%
20Saline County3115114,996+16 persons+0.106809%
21York County3118514,564+128 persons+0.886672%
22Colfax County3103710,934+20 persons+0.183251%
23Custer County3104110,500-17 persons-0.161643%
24Box Butte County3101310,494-166 persons-1.557223%
25Red Willow County3114510,307-98 persons-0.941855%
26Holt County3108910,067+1 persons+0.009934%
27Wayne County3117910,020+120 persons+1.212121%
28Hamilton County310819,678+45 persons+0.467144%
29Cheyenne County310339,528-10 persons-0.104844%
30Phelps County311378,994-36 persons-0.398671%
31Cuming County310398,823-88 persons-0.987543%
32Butler County310238,507+40 persons+0.472422%
33Cedar County310278,373+29 persons+0.347555%
34Knox County311078,335-39 persons-0.465727%
35Keith County311018,100-61 persons-0.747457%
36Merrick County311217,905+59 persons+0.751976%
37Dawes County310457,858-157 persons-1.958827%
38Richardson County311477,530-63 persons-0.829712%
39Pierce County311397,378+29 persons+0.394612%
40Nemaha County311277,102-2 persons-0.028153%
41Jefferson County310957,070-80 persons-1.118881%
42Kearney County310996,790+27 persons+0.399231%
43Thurston County311736,752+143 persons+2.163716%
44Burt County310216,678-48 persons-0.713649%
45Howard County310936,538+2 persons+0.030600%
46Antelope County310036,352-18 persons-0.282575%
47Clay County310356,170+56 persons+0.915931%
48Stanton County311675,744-39 persons-0.674390%
49Dixon County310515,602+21 persons+0.376277%
50Cherry County310315,561-13 persons-0.233226%
51Fillmore County310595,458-8 persons-0.146359%
52Boone County310115,355-35 persons-0.649351%
53Polk County311435,270-17 persons-0.321543%
54Johnson County310975,218+21 persons+0.404079%
55Thayer County311694,842-32 persons-0.656545%
56Sheridan County311614,809-91 persons-1.857143%
57Furnas County310654,524+53 persons+1.185417%
58Morrill County311234,404-43 persons-0.966944%
59Nuckolls County311294,100+4 persons+0.097656%
60Valley County311754,094+29 persons+0.713407%
61Chase County310293,718+2 persons+0.053821%
62Kimball County311053,391+93 persons+2.819891%
63Webster County311813,336+11 persons+0.330827%
64Nance County311253,290+4 persons+0.121729%
65Harlan County310833,000-14 persons-0.464499%
66Sherman County311632,924-29 persons-0.982052%
67Perkins County311352,849+42 persons+1.496259%
68Brown County310172,826-12 persons-0.422833%
69Franklin County310612,795-26 persons-0.921659%
70Frontier County310632,655+50 persons+1.919386%
71Pawnee County311332,510-7 persons-0.278109%
72Hitchcock County310872,467-18 persons-0.724346%
73Greeley County310772,154-29 persons-1.328447%
74Deuel County310491,862-1 persons-0.053677%
75Garden County310691,804-7 persons-0.386527%
76Gosper County310731,803-24 persons-1.313629%
77Garfield County310711,710+11 persons+0.647440%
78Boyd County310151,674-44 persons-2.561118%
79Dundy County310571,568-1 persons-0.063735%
80Rock County311491,259-3 persons-0.237718%
81Sioux County311651,188-17 persons-1.410788%
82Hayes County31085821-17 persons-2.028640%
83Keya Paha County31103792-16 persons-1.980198%
84Wheeler County31183789-3 persons-0.378788%
85Banner County31007686+16 persons+2.388060%
86Hooker County31091686-12 persons-1.719198%
87Logan County31113669-14 persons-2.049780%
88Thomas County31171639-10 persons-1.540832%
89Loup County31115570-16 persons-2.730375%
90Grant County31075561-2 persons-0.355240%
91Blaine County31009458-1 persons-0.217865%
92Arthur County31005396-21 persons-5.035971%
93McPherson County31117369-5 persons-1.336898%

County population trend · 2020–2025

Resident population (persons), not ACS housing. April 1, 2020 estimates base is distinct from the July 1, 2020 estimate. The April–July 2020 change is partial-year; the July 2020–July 2021 interval is the first July-to-July comparison. No 2020 annual rate is shown. Missing observations are unavailable, never zero.

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Population observations for Douglas County (GEOID 31055), persons
DatePopulation (persons)Interval
April 1, 2020 base584,527Estimates base; not July 1
July 1, 2020585,428April–July partial-year; no annual rate
July 1, 2021585,604July 2020–July 2021 comparison
July 1, 2022587,963July-to-July estimate
July 1, 2023593,496July-to-July estimate
July 1, 2024600,903July-to-July estimate
July 1, 2025606,460July-to-July estimate

County population and median home value · different vintages

Each point pairs a county’s PEP July 1, 2025 resident population (persons) with its ACS 2024 5-year median owner-occupied home value (B25077, U.S. dollars). These are different reference periods and different statistical programs. This descriptive comparison does not imply causality or matched vintages. Suppressed, missing or invalid ACS estimates are unavailable, not zero and not plotted. A valid zero remains zero.

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County comparison: PEP July 1, 2025 population (persons) and ACS 2024 5-year median owner-occupied home value (U.S. dollars); unavailable values identified
CountyGEOIDPEP July 1, 2025 population (persons)ACS 2024 5-year median home value (U.S. dollars)
Adams County3100131,071$193,100
Antelope County310036,352$130,300
Arthur County31005396$185,900
Banner County31007686$205,700
Blaine County31009458$116,900
Boone County310115,355$173,700
Box Butte County3101310,494$166,600
Boyd County310151,674$104,000
Brown County310172,826$113,900
Buffalo County3101951,172$246,400
Burt County310216,678$147,000
Butler County310238,507$184,200
Cass County3102527,657$254,900
Cedar County310278,373$185,000
Chase County310293,718$165,900
Cherry County310315,561$152,200
Cheyenne County310339,528$139,700
Clay County310356,170$155,600
Colfax County3103710,934$144,700
Cuming County310398,823$178,800
Custer County3104110,500$157,800
Dakota County3104321,687$185,700
Dawes County310457,858$150,900
Dawson County3104724,452$166,200
Deuel County310491,862$100,200
Dixon County310515,602$155,900
Dodge County3105338,057$208,600
Douglas County31055606,460$266,100
Dundy County310571,568$143,400
Fillmore County310595,458$151,000
Franklin County310612,795$95,600
Frontier County310632,655$149,800
Furnas County310654,524$98,400
Gage County3106721,711$174,000
Garden County310691,804$110,400
Garfield County310711,710$176,600
Gosper County310731,803$228,500
Grant County31075561$136,700
Greeley County310772,154$120,000
Hall County3107963,633$224,600
Hamilton County310819,678$253,700
Harlan County310833,000$145,800
Hayes County31085821$128,100
Hitchcock County310872,467$96,700
Holt County3108910,067$165,100
Hooker County31091686$93,800
Howard County310936,538$209,100
Jefferson County310957,070$129,500
Johnson County310975,218$155,500
Kearney County310996,790$223,400
Keith County311018,100$168,000
Keya Paha County31103792$108,800
Kimball County311053,391$109,400
Knox County311078,335$127,700
Lancaster County31109334,049$275,200
Lincoln County3111133,303$189,500
Logan County31113669$175,000
Loup County31115570$182,300
McPherson County31117369$121,600
Madison County3111936,106$208,500
Merrick County311217,905$175,900
Morrill County311234,404$116,100
Nance County311253,290$132,000
Nemaha County311277,102$131,700
Nuckolls County311294,100$96,500
Otoe County3113116,531$201,600
Pawnee County311332,510$79,400
Perkins County311352,849$157,200
Phelps County311378,994$194,900
Pierce County311397,378$196,000
Platte County3114135,649$223,900
Polk County311435,270$189,900
Red Willow County3114510,307$159,600
Richardson County311477,530$100,300
Rock County311491,259$117,500
Saline County3115114,996$197,400
Sarpy County31153208,303$314,100
Saunders County3115523,702$271,700
Scotts Bluff County3115735,586$168,500
Seward County3115918,032$241,300
Sheridan County311614,809$113,400
Sherman County311632,924$152,000
Sioux County311651,188$99,300
Stanton County311675,744$195,400
Thayer County311694,842$122,800
Thomas County31171639$109,200
Thurston County311736,752$114,600
Valley County311754,094$154,600
Washington County3117721,302$297,600
Wayne County3117910,020$221,600
Webster County311813,336$117,600
Wheeler County31183789$146,500
York County3118514,564$189,400