Dawson, NE population, income and ZIP codes

Dawson village is a very small community in Nebraska, with 193 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #359 of 593 ranked by population — larger than 39% of them. The median age here is 53.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Dawson village earn a median of $58,317 a year, 25.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and 14% below the $67,419 median for the 119 Nebraska cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 3.6% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Dawson village is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $940 a month, 33.1% below the national figure, or roughly $11,280 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 19.3% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. 80.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

A median age of 53.2 puts Dawson village well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 193 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Dawson village against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value for Dawson village because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.