Nebraska Towns & Cities — Cost of Living and Business Climate

TownPopulationHome valueRentIncome

Abie 59 $73k — $56k

Adams 580 $192k $886 $91k

Ainsworth 1,697 $107k $807 $53k

Albion 1,822 $219k $705 $74k

Alda 651 $107k $958 $58k

Alexandria 101 $29k — $56k

Allen 468 $131k $644 $59k

Alliance 8,075 $162k $694 $65k

Alma 1,154 $164k $641 $76k

Alvo 123 $188k — $114k

Amherst 272 $170k $679 $69k

Anoka 11 — — —

Anselmo 93 $73k $658 $61k

Ansley 563 $90k $1034 $65k

Arapahoe 993 $97k $838 $57k

Arcadia 308 $115k $525 $81k

Arlington 1,467 $225k $1000 $94k

Arnold 945 $147k $946 $65k

Arthur 66 $87k $763 $29k

Ashland 3,071 $250k $866 $89k

Ashton 232 $83k $856 $69k

Atkinson 1,377 $174k $655 $79k

Atlanta 133 — — $66k

Auburn 3,470 $99k $797 $58k

Aurora 4,664 $234k $764 $78k

Avoca 190 $138k $867 $67k

Axtell 818 $205k $1115 $72k

Ayr 126 $90k — $76k

Bancroft 593 $123k $826 $51k

Barada 35 $69k — —

Barneston 117 — — $50k

Bartlett 189 $84k $463 $51k

Bartley 352 $87k $1068 —

Bassett 580 $87k $651 $43k

Battle Creek 1,456 $194k $960 $96k

Bayard 1,531 $110k $722 $68k

Bazile Mills 11 — — $155k

Beatrice 12,225 $159k $758 $57k

Beaver City 547 $79k $703 $56k

Beaver Crossing 357 $143k $938 $63k

Bee 281 $150k $900 $100k

Beemer 775 $129k $641 $62k

Belden 101 $108k — $71k

Belgrade 224 $43k $713 —

Bellevue 64,510 $247k $1226 $85k

Bellwood 492 $148k $786 $73k

Belvidere 35 — — —

Benedict 280 $96k $725 $58k

Benkelman 905 $115k $700 $42k

Bennet 1,218 $272k $1260 $106k

Bennington 2,366 $333k $1516 $98k

Bertrand 718 $145k $850 $74k

Berwyn 51 $75k — $46k

Big Springs 496 $96k $775 $68k

Bladen 166 $73k — $67k

Blair 7,914 $222k $937 $81k

Bloomfield 959 $93k $725 $50k

Bloomington 112 $104k — $79k

Blue Hill 782 $166k $814 $63k

Blue Springs 328 $59k — $39k

Boys Town 809 — — $74k

Bradshaw 346 $95k $1121 $73k

Brady 470 $151k $1083 $81k

Brainard 303 $173k $756 $69k

Brewster 33 $188k — $26k

Bridgeport 1,342 $105k $780 $60k

Bristow 55 $13k — $48k

Broadwater 106 $45k — $48k

Brock 120 — — $39k

Broken Bow 3,502 $133k $876 $60k

Brownville 102 $113k $950 —

Brule 346 $131k $658 $47k

Bruning 259 $132k $860 $74k

Bruno 104 — $725 $37k

Brunswick 196 — — $89k

Burchard 119 $57k — $65k

Burr 41 $104k — $73k

Burton 0 — — —

Burwell 848 $164k $460 $51k

Bushnell 160 $71k — $40k

Butte 273 $67k $613 $54k

Byron 92 $55k $675 $50k

Cairo 1,035 $193k $821 $55k

Callaway 562 $149k $631 $51k

Cambridge 1,082 $123k $771 $62k

Campbell 268 $60k $938 $81k

Carleton 189 — — $81k

Carroll 286 $93k $883 $61k

Cedar Bluffs 782 $167k $1097 $93k

Cedar Creek 427 $391k — $118k

Cedar Rapids 493 $80k $768 $55k

Center 191 — — $70k

Central City 3,061 $165k $677 $73k

Ceresco 1,225 $211k $1014 $97k

Chadron 5,160 $154k $881 $55k

Chambers 424 $91k $1087 $73k

Chapman 290 $114k $1250 $86k

Chappell 915 $94k $775 $65k

Chester 240 $77k $843 $72k

Clarks 330 $108k $840 $49k

Clarkson 600 $85k $488 $61k

Clatonia 326 $126k $944 $60k

Clay Center 802 $141k $625 $83k

Clearwater 312 $88k $875 $61k

Clinton 66 — — $57k

Cody 125 $103k $658 $73k

Coleridge 553 $87k — $47k

Colon 102 $166k $1063 $62k

Columbus 24,488 $214k $892 $65k

Comstock 80 $81k — $48k

Concord 143 $86k — $81k

Cook 328 $110k $615 $66k

Cordova 131 $79k — $49k

Cornlea 42 $108k — —

Cortland 547 $183k $1075 $75k

Cotesfield 27 — — —

Cowles 8 — — —

Cozad 3,937 $122k $851 $54k

Crab Orchard 20 $43k — $63k

Craig 113 $57k — $46k

Crawford 878 $81k $625 $52k

Creighton 1,222 $98k $730 $50k

Creston 170 $123k $930 $65k

Crete 7,527 $224k $936 $77k

Crofton 902 $126k $488 $95k

Crookston 45 $48k — —

Culbertson 634 $91k $736 $52k

Curtis 769 $149k $590 $59k

Cushing 112 — — $98k

Dakota City 2,675 $178k $635 $77k

Dalton 435 $96k $883 $66k

Danbury 70 $103k — $47k

Dannebrog 235 $128k $813 $63k

Davenport 257 $88k $669 $67k

Davey 117 $231k — $109k

David City 3,017 $165k $767 $66k

Dawson 166 — $700 $61k

Daykin 195 $106k $450 $89k

De Witt 437 $137k $631 $81k

Decatur 482 $105k $595 $55k

Denton 145 $248k $878 $57k

Deshler 729 $102k $653 $57k

Deweese 56 $92k — $19k

Diller 179 $80k $483 $78k

Dix 224 $105k — $53k

Dixon 78 $60k — —

Dodge 446 $126k $575 $60k

Doniphan 983 $211k $950 $87k

Dorchester 550 $163k $638 $74k

Douglas 269 $120k $725 $71k

Du Bois 145 $55k $908 —

Dunbar 266 $68k — $91k

Duncan 612 $163k $1313 $75k

Dunning 78 $73k $850 $62k

Dwight 230 $155k $440 $71k

Eagle 1,259 $173k $1104 $77k

Eddyville 125 $103k — $95k

Edgar 501 $95k $391 $51k

Edison 147 $36k — $60k

Elba 171 $98k $918 $36k

Elgin 642 $111k $656 $60k

Elk Creek 122 $40k $275 $56k

Elm Creek 1,107 $192k $761 $79k

Elmwood 774 $195k $743 $77k

Elsie 139 $70k $620 $48k

Elwood 534 $183k $750 $66k

Elyria 43 $139k — $62k

Emerson 885 $116k $703 $57k

Emmet 20 — — $64k

Endicott 151 $73k — $86k

Ericson 157 $141k $493 $70k

Eustis 431 $156k $1028 $89k

Ewing 372 $78k $688 $62k

Exeter 562 $116k $936 $63k

Fairbury 3,888 $102k $676 $53k

Fairfield 327 $161k $700 $67k

Fairmont 635 $74k $685 $74k

Falls City 4,077 $90k $714 $52k

Farnam 257 $63k $820 $45k

Farwell 78 — — $53k

Filley 110 $121k — $52k

Firth 604 $222k $1056 $81k

Fordyce 195 $107k — $83k

Fort Calhoun 1,173 $291k $1141 $102k

Foster 50 — — —

Franklin 946 $89k $791 $53k

Fremont 27,567 $215k $1080 $71k

Friend 1,155 $174k $810 $91k

Fullerton 1,346 $129k $817 $48k

Funk 244 $172k — $94k

Gandy 42 $583k — $178k

Garland 180 $185k — $52k

Garrison 61 $66k — $65k

Geneva 2,193 $169k $734 $80k

Genoa 860 $116k $798 $67k

Gering 8,550 $187k $823 $75k

Gibbon 1,763 $174k $810 $70k

Gilead 30 $28k — $63k

Giltner 457 $185k $817 $73k

Glenvil 285 $104k $767 $68k

Goehner 309 $158k — $97k

Gordon 1,721 $97k $625 $59k

Gothenburg 3,452 $191k $883 $79k

Grafton 160 $96k — $72k

Grand Island 52,884 $219k $947 $64k

Grant 1,413 $155k $971 $71k

Greeley Center 417 $81k $658 $49k

Greenwood 601 $177k $1283 $91k

Gresham 249 $71k $725 $46k

Gretna 9,193 $342k $1540 $124k

Gross 10 — — —

Guide Rock 286 $44k — $39k

Gurley 207 $85k $633 $61k

Hadar 264 $218k $1017 $77k

Haigler 195 $68k $821 $45k

Hallam 346 $288k $988 $98k

Halsey 13 — — —

Hamlet 16 — — —

Hampton 653 $193k $983 $84k

Harbine 65 $126k $725 $72k

Hardy 113 $15k — $61k

Harrison 218 $67k $1063 $52k

Hartington 1,621 $178k $640 $81k

Harvard 1,008 $102k $708 $66k

Hastings 25,008 $185k $858 $64k

Hay Springs 649 $88k $825 $57k

Hayes Center 297 $86k $763 $59k

Hazard 150 — — $81k

Heartwell 97 $78k $825 $53k

Hebron 1,577 $139k $772 $66k

Hemingford 714 $91k $813 $71k

Henderson 1,049 $155k — $83k

Hendley 21 $65k — —

Henry 94 $93k — $80k

Herman 360 $135k $332 $80k

Hershey 724 $172k $783 $91k

Hickman 3,004 $312k — $104k

Hildreth 480 $115k $698 $60k

Holbrook 273 $75k $1089 $64k

Holdrege 5,546 $199k $835 $56k

Holstein 185 $104k $500 $70k

Homer 446 $163k $677 $81k

Hooper 989 $173k $931 $78k

Hordville 221 $95k $850 —

Hoskins 250 $163k $1359 $79k

Howard City (Boelus) 186 $80k $675 $69k

Howells 517 $107k $588 $81k

Hubbard 190 $186k — $59k

Hubbell 61 $42k — —

Humboldt 775 $68k $492 $42k

Humphrey 713 $231k $721 $74k

Huntley 24 $163k — $238k

Hyannis 145 $79k $790 —

Imperial 2,210 $159k $904 $74k

Indianola 512 $91k $644 $55k

Inglewood 511 $136k $1167 $67k

Inman 153 $45k $775 $71k

Ithaca 183 $159k $910 $62k

Jackson 273 $197k $629 $51k

Jansen 123 $60k — $66k

Johnson 339 $108k $950 $60k

Johnstown 12 — — —

Julian 42 — — $41k

Juniata 750 $143k $835 $65k

Kearney 34,246 $245k $949 $70k

Kenesaw 902 $178k $766 $93k

Kennard 425 $190k $1106 $95k

Kilgore 135 $49k — —

Kimball 2,225 $112k $828 $56k

La Vista 16,563 $261k $1317 $82k

Lamar 20 — — —

Laurel 1,018 $164k $815 $59k

Lawrence 223 $89k — $69k

Lebanon 33 $62k — —

Leigh 443 $95k $805 $64k

Leshara 177 $163k $1021 $71k

Lewellen 207 $94k $789 $42k

Lewiston 42 $48k — $41k

Lexington 10,862 $159k $966 $68k

Liberty 51 — — $53k

Lincoln 294,856 $264k $1086 $72k

Lindsay 313 $215k $850 $84k

Linwood 80 — — $33k

Litchfield 233 $90k $655 $67k

Lodgepole 223 $76k $725 $25k

Long Pine 363 $60k $931 $46k

Loomis 375 $145k $858 $73k

Lorton 72 $58k — —

Louisville 1,449 $206k $1198 $94k

Loup City 973 $96k $744 $53k

Lushton 28 $55k — —

Lyman 291 $68k $782 $55k

Lynch 137 $54k — $38k

Lyons 900 $104k — $45k

Madison 2,079 $133k $971 $63k

Madrid 226 $91k — $75k

Magnet 61 $34k — $59k

Malcolm 480 $263k $911 $86k

Malmo 95 $170k — $109k

Manley 204 $163k — $64k

Marquette 265 $108k $1063 $63k

Martinsburg 71 $131k — $57k

Maskell 76 $85k — $61k

Mason City 189 — $838 $64k

Maxwell 174 $91k $836 $88k

Maywood 266 $103k $825 $71k

McCook 7,314 $154k $823 $57k

McCool Junction 718 $150k $910 $118k

McGrew 67 $69k — $36k

McLean 86 — — $98k

Mead 607 $166k $1013 $80k

Meadow Grove 174 $68k — $49k

Melbeta 146 $90k $850 $47k

Memphis 130 $169k — $74k

Merna 383 $100k $983 $62k

Merriman 117 — — $41k

Milford 2,565 $228k $892 $83k

Miller 128 — $763 $91k

Milligan 296 $102k $650 $65k

Minatare 712 $81k $506 $38k

Minden 3,108 $209k $823 $68k

Mitchell 1,962 $122k $953 $54k

Monowi 2 — — —

Monroe 252 $126k $960 $76k

Moorefield 40 — — $36k

Morrill 880 $141k $910 $47k

Morse Bluff 70 $133k — $74k

Mullen 478 $85k $600 $51k

Murdock 228 $178k $1000 $59k

Murray 431 $182k $1094 $80k

Naper 117 $23k — $36k

Naponee 88 $39k — $58k

Nebraska City 7,369 $162k $947 $67k

Nehawka 109 $119k $1125 $59k

Neligh 1,515 $151k $598 $59k

Nelson 487 $72k $666 $50k

Nemaha 64 $53k $900 $51k

Nenzel 14 — — $44k

Newcastle 376 $136k $713 $83k

Newman Grove 885 $100k $744 $55k

Newport 46 $51k — —

Nickerson 552 $75k $925 $155k

Niobrara 353 $95k $575 $40k

Nora 28 — — —

Norfolk 26,054 $212k $875 $59k

Norman 36 $85k — —

North Bend 1,152 $173k $1315 $86k

North Loup 238 $56k $618 $49k

North Platte 22,831 $169k $921 $58k

O'Neill 3,570 $153k $697 $57k

Oak 88 $22k — $57k

Oakdale 355 $47k $563 $71k

Oakland 1,552 $152k $720 $69k

Obert 16 — — $56k

Oconto 167 $60k $875 $56k

Octavia 153 $100k — $59k

Odell 211 $107k $592 $66k

Ogallala 4,777 $156k $667 $59k

Ohiowa 105 $50k — $43k

Omaha 488,837 $246k $1187 $73k

Ong 50 — — —

Orchard 410 $87k $814 $53k

Ord 2,100 $120k $617 $58k

Orleans 337 $64k $588 $62k

Osceola 896 $148k $489 $81k

Oshkosh 807 $86k $744 $40k

Osmond 647 $132k $688 $66k

Otoe 160 $49k $1031 $44k

Overton 689 $105k $850 $55k

Oxford 652 $93k $695 $58k

Page 120 $94k — $56k

Palisade 321 $81k $781 $63k

Palmer 403 $124k $875 $63k

Palmyra 589 $165k $1188 $85k

Panama 232 $198k $1313 $95k

Papillion 25,244 $311k $1269 $112k

Pawnee City 801 $64k $623 $45k

Paxton 622 $131k $848 $67k

Pender 1,379 $175k $875 $73k

Peru 653 $97k $478 $44k

Petersburg 397 $152k $800 $88k

Phillips 382 $147k $1075 $87k

Pickrell 180 $159k $613 $70k

Pierce 1,956 $179k $1274 $71k

Pilger 382 $130k $515 $74k

Plainview 1,281 $96k $816 $55k

Platte Center 318 $132k $1063 $76k

Plattsmouth 6,731 $184k $941 $74k

Pleasant Dale 244 $178k $916 $64k

Pleasanton 556 $228k $888 $74k

Plymouth 397 $117k $1051 $50k

Polk 351 $97k — $55k

Ponca 727 $201k $505 $57k

Potter 283 $110k $875 $76k

Prague 310 $98k $850 $74k

Preston 16 $103k — $50k

Primrose 60 — — $76k

Prosser 76 $96k — $56k

Ragan 12 $70k — —

Ralston 6,472 $231k $1215 $69k

Randolph 877 $119k $665 $85k

Ravenna 1,382 $136k $921 $64k

Raymond 187 $193k $770 $99k

Red Cloud 934 $74k $585 $46k

Republican City 92 $188k — $46k

Reynolds 41 $55k — —

Richland 55 $89k — $51k

Rising City 256 $136k $580 $90k

Riverdale 307 $138k — $85k

Riverton 106 $31k $910 $45k

Roca 242 $231k $1125 $100k

Rockville 169 $39k — $36k

Rogers 99 $91k — —

Rosalie 247 $44k $813 $67k

Roseland 306 $150k $705 $85k

Royal 35 $60k — $53k

Rulo 164 $95k — $46k

Rushville 877 $98k $875 $54k

Ruskin 149 $91k — $79k

Salem 102 $43k — —

Santee 235 — $385 $60k

Sargent 534 $58k $631 $54k

Saronville 69 $113k — —

Schuyler 6,578 $146k $1049 $80k

Scotia 428 $103k $581 $45k

Scottsbluff 14,376 $138k $966 $56k

Scribner 725 $114k $995 $59k

Seward 7,678 $245k $1018 $73k

Shelby 684 $121k — $73k

Shelton 1,389 $142k $1114 $81k

Shickley 387 $151k $875 $73k

Sholes 14 — — —

Shubert 214 $61k $850 $38k

Sidney 6,419 $139k $819 $55k

Silver Creek 341 $99k $908 $52k

Smithfield 108 $83k $972 $51k

Snyder 293 $92k $933 $88k

South Bend 100 $117k $960 $64k

South Sioux City 13,907 $175k $1127 $68k

Spalding 353 $127k $546 $66k

Spencer 312 $83k $713 $59k

Sprague 176 $197k $1607 $81k

Springfield 1,595 $254k $1288 $93k

Springview 217 $84k $850 $42k

St. Edward 588 $102k $914 $54k

St. Helena 97 $157k — $86k

St. Paul 2,758 $203k $707 $62k

Stamford 178 $49k — $30k

Stanton 1,702 $177k $834 $77k

Staplehurst 322 $86k $917 $83k

Stapleton 343 $106k $713 $70k

Steele City 62 $27k $325 $31k

Steinauer 73 $65k — $48k

Stella 126 $63k — $56k

Sterling 717 $130k $830 $70k

Stockham 19 $106k — —

Stockville 39 $128k — —

Strang 23 $181k — $100k

Stratton 342 $54k $750 $35k

Stromsburg 1,074 $160k $846 $59k

Stuart 628 $169k $695 $62k

Sumner 353 $96k $891 $70k

Superior 1,879 $82k $643 $64k

Surprise 35 — — $112k

Sutherland 1,209 $188k $572 $73k

Sutton 1,323 $156k $923 $81k

Swanton 93 $113k $933 $61k

Syracuse 1,990 $206k $573 $72k

Table Rock 255 $73k $638 $50k

Talmage 155 $84k $1278 $64k

Tarnov 27 — — $78k

Taylor 142 $73k $950 $51k

Tecumseh 1,882 $106k $831 $45k

Tekamah 1,690 $130k $638 $57k

Terrytown 793 $114k $848 $44k

Thayer 32 — — $66k

Thedford 225 $84k $675 $75k

Thurston 100 $106k $705 $72k

Tilden 936 $157k $697 $69k

Tobias 61 $103k — $61k

Trenton 487 $69k $525 $45k

Trumbull 298 $173k $1188 $118k

Uehling 244 $109k $1308 $61k

Ulysses 190 $36k $675 $76k

Unadilla 329 $140k — $70k

Union 215 $116k $1075 $64k

Upland 118 $62k — $64k

Utica 1,015 $189k $967 $88k

Valentine 2,633 $149k $892 $57k

Valley 3,174 $528k $962 $110k

Valparaiso 524 $230k $931 $86k

Venango 182 $61k $1275 $75k

Verdel 33 — — $21k

Verdigre 613 $87k $556 $41k

Verdon 185 $55k — $79k

Virginia 76 — — $88k

Waco 178 $139k — $76k

Wahoo 4,929 $244k $907 $89k

Wakefield 1,305 $117k $717 $57k

Wallace 266 $108k $732 $63k

Walthill 812 $39k $929 $70k

Washington 198 $209k — $106k

Waterbury 95 $89k — $128k

Waterloo 990 $231k $1300 $68k

Wauneta 531 $88k $630 $47k

Wausa 698 $86k $763 $59k

Waverly 4,440 $317k $1076 $112k

Wayne 6,121 $229k $792 $54k

Weeping Water 1,407 $186k $1021 $84k

Wellfleet 74 $72k — $50k

West Point 3,471 $202k $847 $66k

Western 215 $70k $563 $54k

Weston 256 $163k $1143 $66k

Whitney 46 — — $71k

Wilber 1,936 $186k $805 $85k

Wilcox 336 $110k $678 $66k

Wilsonville 98 $44k — $61k

Winnebago 1,058 $67k $577 $41k

Winnetoon 68 $45k — $83k

Winside 485 $104k $788 $67k

Winslow 69 $187k — $71k

Wisner 1,461 $140k $825 $62k

Wolbach 283 $67k $713 $52k

Wood Lake 16 $55k — $30k

Wood River 1,494 $151k $811 $75k

Wymore 1,320 $64k $675 $57k

Wynot 209 $118k — $78k

York 8,141 $181k $862 $63k

Yutan 1,832 $199k $1453 $103k