Nebraska cities and towns

This directory lists every place the US Census Bureau tabulates in Nebraska, ranked from the largest to the smallest by population. Incorporated cities, towns and villages appear alongside census-designated places (CDPs) — unincorporated communities that have no local government of their own but are counted separately because they have a recognised name and settled population. The suffix in each name ("city", "town", "village", "CDP") is the Census legal/statistical description, which is why you will see entries such as "Omaha city".

The largest place in Nebraska is Omaha city with 488,197 residents, and the 593 places on this page hold 1,583,902 people between them. Median household income across the listed places runs from $21,429 to $250,001, and median home values range from $14,400 to $515,100 — a spread that shows how much local housing markets diverge inside a single state.

Every figure comes from the American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates, which average survey responses over sixty months. That averaging is what makes small towns measurable at all, but it also means the numbers describe the period as a whole rather than today. Blank cells are estimates the Census suppressed because the local sample was too small to publish reliably. Select any place to open its full profile with affordability ratios, poverty and homeownership rates, and links to nearby communities of similar size.

Nebraska is a one-centre state: Omaha city alone holds 31% of everyone on this page, and the runner-up, Lincoln city, is only 291,932 people. Rankings here mostly measure distance from that single core. These are mostly very small areas — the median place counts 284 residents. Rankings at the bottom of this list are within each other's margin of error, so treat close positions as ties.

Nebraska runs cheap on housing relative to earnings: $109,750 median home value against $63,125 of household income works out to 1.7 years of gross income, against 3.9 nationally. Incomes are lower here too, so the local comparison that matters for a move is rent. Rent stays modest against earnings — $789 a month, roughly 15% of median household income over a year.

Middle-of-the-road dispersion: $43,750 to $88,125 across the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band, a 2.01× spread. Nora village tops the list at $250,001 and Deweese village anchors the bottom at $21,429, but those two are not where most of this list sits.

About one row in 9 is incomplete — 64 of 593 places have a suppressed estimate, almost all of them at the small end. Five-year estimates average responses over sixty months, so what is published is a stable baseline rather than a reading of this month's market.

How many places does Nebraska have? 593 appear in the current federal tabulation, counting incorporated cities, towns and villages together with census-designated places — unincorporated communities with no local government of their own. 80% of them have fewer than a thousand residents, so the list is far longer than the number of towns you would recognise by name.

Which Nebraska row should I compare mine against? Not the state median — it is pulled by the Nebraska core. Compare against places in the same population band, which for most of this list means the entries below the top ten.

How current is this? Every figure comes from the American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year release published by the US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates. It reflects the full survey window rather than a single date, and it is the most recent vintage available for places this small.