Nebraska · FIPS 31017
Brown ZIP codes — Brown County, Nebraska
Quick answer
Brown County is home to 2,739 residents with a median household income of $51,538 and a median home value of $100,200. 73.8% of households own their home and 12.1% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Brown ZIP code? 3 ZIP code areas fall inside Brown County, Nebraska, listed in full below.
- Population
- 2,739Brown County residents
- Median household income
- $51,538Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $100,200Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $932Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 45.9 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 73.8%Owner-occupied households
Brown County, NE in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Brown County is a small town in Nebraska, with 2,739 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 45.9 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 Brown County earn a median of $51,538 a year, 34.4% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 12.1% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.
The typical owner-occupied home in Brown County is valued at $100,200, 67% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $932 a month, 33.7% below the national figure, or roughly $11,184 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 21.7% 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 1.9×, 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. 73.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.
No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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.
ZIP codes in Brown County
ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Brown County.
How to read this page
What these estimates cover.
Figures are five-year rolling averages from the American Community Survey, not single-year counts, so they describe conditions across 2019-2023 ACS 5-year rather than a single date. Median home value covers owner-occupied units as valued by their owners, and median gross rent includes utilities the renter pays. Small counties carry wide margins of error; treat single-dollar differences between neighbouring counties as noise.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
Cities and towns in Nebraska
Largest Census places in Nebraska by population.
- Omaha city 488,197
- Lincoln city 291,932
- Bellevue city 64,355
- Grand Island city 52,761
- Kearney city 34,024
- Fremont city 27,321
- Norfolk city 25,962
- Hastings city 25,005
- Columbus city 24,188
- Papillion city 24,063
- North Platte city 23,030
- La Vista city 16,594
Nearby counties
Other counties in Nebraska.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Brown County?
- Brown County has 2,739 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
- What is the median household income in Brown County?
- Median household income in Brown County is $51,538 a year, 34.4% below the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Brown County?
- Median gross rent is $932 a month and the median home value is $100,200, so rent absorbs about 21.7% of median household income.
- Is Brown County affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 1.9× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Brown County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 21.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this Brown County data?
- All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.