Elk Creek, NE population, income and ZIP codes

Elk Creek village is a very small community in Nebraska, with 129 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #420 of 593 ranked by population — larger than 29% of them. The median age here is 50.4 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 Elk Creek village earn a median of $55,227 a year, 29.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and 18% 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 33.3% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Elk Creek village is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $358 a month, 74.5% below the national figure, or roughly $4,296 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 7.8% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. 78.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

A median age of 50.4 puts Elk Creek 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 129 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Elk Creek village against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value for Elk Creek 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.