Loup City, NE population, income and ZIP codes

Loup City city is a very small community in Nebraska, with 988 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #121 of 593 ranked by population — larger than 79% of them. The median age here is 40.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Loup City city earn a median of $50,625 a year, 35.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 25% below the $67,419 median for the 119 Nebraska cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 9.9% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Loup City city is valued at $101,500, 66.5% below the national figure and 37% below the $161,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs $860 a month, 38.8% below the national figure, or roughly $10,320 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 20.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 69.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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.

With 988 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Loup City city against its county rather than against national figures.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.