New Nebraska Population Report

[nativeomahan]

Here is a link to an exhaustive report on Nebraska's population, including trends.  You statistics junkies should be in hog heaven over this!

http://www.unomaha.edu/cpar/documents/n ... ion_08.pdf

Note the following comment at the front of the report:

[center]Data in this report supersede prior Census Bureau population estimates presented in other
Nebraska population reports. This is especially important in 2008 as the Census Bureau
made adjustments to their estimates program methodology, the full effect of which is
presented here for the first time. All prior estimates have been revised to account
for this methodology change.[/center]

Some stats that caught my eye include:

The population has grown between 2000 and 2008 in only 18 of Nebraska’s 93 counties.

Of the 72,166 person growth from 2000-08, White non-Hispanics accounted for only 4 percent.

Eleven of Nebraska’s 93 counties had fewer than 1,000 persons in 2008, 38 counties had less than 5,000 persons, while the
population in 68 counties was less than 10,000 persons.

The median size city in Nebraska had 320 persons, represented by Brule, Hadar, Maxwell, and Phillips.

The percentage of county residents ages 65 and over increases as the county type becomes
increasingly rural. Those 65 and older comprise 10.6 percent of the population in
metropolitan counties, 15.5 percent in micropolitan counties, 18.3 percent in nonmetro/
micro counties having a city with at least 2,500 residents, and 22.5 percent in nonmetro/
micro counties without a city of 2,500 residents.

Only about half of Nebraska’s counties experienced more births than deaths from 2000 to 2008.

Sarpy County had the largest growth rate at 22.7 percent between 2000 and 2008 while Blaine
County had the most pronounced decline at 26.6 percent.