2000 vs. 2017 Personal Income Growth and Change

Nebraska Real Personal Income Growth by County

2000 vs. 2017, Net Percent Change

Loup County 2000 vs. 2017

Net Percent Change = 189.53%

Rank = #1

Pawnee County 2000 vs. 2017

Net Percent Change = 1.38%

Rank = #93

Lincoln County 2000 vs. 2017

Net Percent Change = 38.39%

Rank = #31

With a spotlight on Lincoln County, the chart above displays the distribution of the net percent change of real (inflation adjusted) personal income across Nebraska's 93 counties over the period 2000-2017.

Those counties whose real personal income growth registered above the statewide average over this period realized an increase in their statewide share of real personal income. Likewise, those counties whose real personal income growth registered below the statewide average experienced a decline in their relative share of real personal income statewide.

Statewide Snippets:

Over 2000-2017 real personal income grew in all 93 Nebraska counties.
Real personal income growth in twenty-three counties outpaced the statewide average (42.70%), while growth in seventy counties trailed.
At the extremes of the distribution, Loup County posted the highest growth of real personal income (189.53%), while Pawnee County placed last by logging a 1.38% gain.
The spread in real personal income growth between the highest (Loup County, 189.53%) and lowest (Pawnee County, 1.38%) over 2000-2017 equated to 188.14% ( = 189.53% − 1.38%).
Real personal income growth statewide is but a weighted metric that stems from each county's share of real personal income statewide. On this point, as the largest county in Nebraska, Douglas County's net real personal income growth over 2000-2017 of $10,825,574K made up 37.75% of the total net growth statewide ($28,675,337K):

Douglas County: Percent Share of Nebraska's
Real Personal Income Growth, 2000-2017:

37.75% = ($10,825,574K / $28,675,337K) x 100

Lincoln County Snippets:

Over 2000-2017, Lincoln County posted a 38.39% net gain in real personal income.
Lincoln County was joined by sixty-nine other counties whose real personal income growth over 2000-2017 registered below the statewide average (42.70%).
Ranked #31 among Nebraska's 93 counties, Lincoln County's real personal income growth (38.39%) trailed the statewide average of 42.70% by a 4.31% margin.
Lincoln County's net real personal income growth (38.39%, #31) over 2000-2017 registered just above that of Madison County (38.10%, #32) and just below that of Seward County (38.39%, #30).
Lincoln County's share of real personal income statewide slipped from 1.76% in 2000 to 1.70% in 2017, resulting in a share-shift of -0.05%.

Real Personal Income Growth by County

2000 vs. 2017, Net Percent Change

County Distribution of Real Personal Income Growth, 2000 vs. 2017

	More than 70%	70% to 60%	60% to 50%	50% to 40%	40% to 30%	30% to 20%	20% to 10%	10% or Below	Total
2000 vs. 2017	10	3	3	10	24	19	18	6	93

Real Personal Income by County, 2017

Douglas County 2017

Real Personal Income = $33,406M

Percent of State = 34.86%

Rank = #1

Arthur County 2017

Real Personal Income = $20M

Percent of State = 0.02%

Rank = #93

Lincoln County 2017

Real Personal Income = $1,632M

Percent of State = 1.70%

Rank = #7

Again highlighting Lincoln County's position, the bar graph above displays the disposition by county of 2017 real personal income statewide ($95,824M).

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Statewide Snippets:

Ranked #1, Douglas County's 2017 personal income totaled $33,406M, equating to 34.86% of the statewide total.
Ranked last (#93), Arthur County's real personal income of $20M in 2017 comprised just 0.02% of the total statewide. Arthur County's real personal income in 2017 equates to less than .01% to that of Douglas County's.
Douglas County's 2017 personal income ($33,406M) exceeded the combined personal income ($32,279M) of Nebraska's eighty-seven smallest counties.

Lincoln County Snippets:

Lincoln County's personal income in 2017 ranked #7, amounting to 1.70% of the statewide total.
Lincoln County's personal income of $1,632M placed below that of Dodge County's ($1,640M, #6), and just above that of Madison County's ($1,627M, #8).
Lincoln County's personal income of $1,632M exceeds the combined total ($1,580M) of Nebraska's twenty-five smallest counties.

Real Personal Income by County, 2017

County Distribution of Real Personal Income, 2017

	More than $10,000M	$10,000M to $8,000M	$8,000M to $6,000M	$6,000M to $4,000M	$4,000M to $2,000M	$2,000M or Below	Total
2017	2	1	0	0	2	88	93

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Nebraska Real* Personal Income by County:
2000 vs. 2017

	2000		2017		2000 - 2017
County	Constant Dollars (1000s)	Percent of State Total	Constant Dollars (1000s)	Percent of State Total	Net Percent Change	Net Change (1000s)	Share (%) of State Change
Adams	1,085,277	1.62	1,437,376	1.50	32.44	352,099	1.23
Antelope	253,515	0.38	305,106	0.32	20.35	51,591	0.18
Arthur	10,611	0.02	20,210	0.02	90.47	9,599	0.03
Banner	21,163	0.03	35,466	0.04	67.58	14,303	0.05
Blaine	13,580	0.02	25,482	0.03	87.64	11,902	0.04
Boone	207,319	0.31	245,888	0.26	18.60	38,569	0.13
Box Butte	411,811	0.61	494,420	0.52	20.06	82,609	0.29
Boyd	66,658	0.10	94,753	0.10	42.15	28,095	0.10
Brown	101,596	0.15	149,604	0.16	47.25	48,008	0.17
Buffalo	1,386,943	2.07	2,494,014	2.60	79.82	1,107,071	3.86
Burt	262,395	0.39	285,547	0.30	8.82	23,152	0.08
Butler	292,926	0.44	354,954	0.37	21.18	62,028	0.22
Cass	952,971	1.42	1,263,818	1.32	32.62	310,847	1.08
Cedar	324,054	0.48	379,275	0.40	17.04	55,221	0.19
Chase	149,380	0.22	214,689	0.22	43.72	65,309	0.23
Cherry	186,587	0.28	246,310	0.26	32.01	59,723	0.21
Cheyenne	345,321	0.51	464,856	0.49	34.62	119,535	0.42
Clay	259,722	0.39	288,935	0.30	11.25	29,213	0.10
Colfax	362,660	0.54	426,753	0.45	17.67	64,093	0.22
Cuming	428,024	0.64	536,346	0.56	25.31	108,322	0.38
Custer	367,962	0.55	478,161	0.50	29.95	110,199	0.38
Dakota	594,311	0.89	787,098	0.82	32.44	192,787	0.67
Dawes	244,487	0.36	315,028	0.33	28.85	70,541	0.25
Dawson	775,082	1.15	970,496	1.01	25.21	195,414	0.68
Deuel	65,838	0.10	78,393	0.08	19.07	12,555	0.04
Dixon	201,481	0.30	218,430	0.23	8.41	16,949	0.06
Dodge	1,281,848	1.91	1,639,670	1.71	27.91	357,822	1.25
Douglas	22,580,548	33.63	33,406,122	34.86	47.94	10,825,574	37.75
Dundy	83,399	0.12	106,220	0.11	27.36	22,821	0.08
Fillmore	263,883	0.39	293,882	0.31	11.37	29,999	0.10
Franklin	112,732	0.17	132,334	0.14	17.39	19,602	0.07
Frontier	93,792	0.14	99,147	0.10	5.71	5,355	0.02
Furnas	170,245	0.25	196,904	0.21	15.66	26,659	0.09
Gage	826,934	1.23	956,506	1.00	15.67	129,572	0.45
Garden	68,272	0.10	85,505	0.09	25.24	17,233	0.06
Garfield	66,709	0.10	79,411	0.08	19.04	12,702	0.04
Gosper	71,629	0.11	85,528	0.09	19.40	13,899	0.05
Grant	17,092	0.03	29,355	0.03	71.74	12,263	0.04
Greeley	80,446	0.12	104,147	0.11	29.46	23,701	0.08
Hall	1,860,729	2.77	2,532,732	2.64	36.12	672,003	2.34
Hamilton	310,260	0.46	490,416	0.51	58.07	180,156	0.63
Harlan	114,684	0.17	150,328	0.16	31.08	35,644	0.12
Hayes	24,105	0.04	47,286	0.05	96.16	23,181	0.08
Hitchcock	79,407	0.12	103,411	0.11	30.23	24,004	0.08
Holt	365,054	0.54	522,238	0.54	43.06	157,184	0.55
Hooker	20,077	0.03	28,074	0.03	39.83	7,997	0.03
Howard	200,626	0.30	268,672	0.28	33.92	68,046	0.24
Jefferson	271,247	0.40	319,342	0.33	17.73	48,095	0.17
Johnson	137,569	0.20	163,763	0.17	19.04	26,194	0.09
Kearney	256,127	0.38	338,942	0.35	32.33	82,815	0.29
Keith	269,324	0.40	345,829	0.36	28.41	76,505	0.27
Keya Paha	23,302	0.03	37,608	0.04	61.39	14,306	0.05
Kimball	132,051	0.20	158,213	0.17	19.81	26,162	0.09
Knox	273,568	0.41	374,227	0.39	36.80	100,659	0.35
Lancaster	10,467,086	15.59	14,678,104	15.32	40.23	4,211,018	14.69
Lincoln	1,179,195	1.76	1,631,903	1.70	38.39	452,708	1.58
Logan	21,885	0.03	33,495	0.03	53.05	11,610	0.04
Loup	10,746	0.02	31,113	0.03	189.53	20,367	0.07
McPherson	9,779	0.01	21,554	0.02	120.41	11,775	0.04
Madison	1,177,818	1.75	1,626,611	1.70	38.10	448,793	1.57
Merrick	249,073	0.37	351,745	0.37	41.22	102,672	0.36
Morrill	147,887	0.22	251,284	0.26	69.92	103,397	0.36
Nance	119,200	0.18	123,654	0.13	3.74	4,454	0.02
Nemaha	295,205	0.44	311,858	0.33	5.64	16,653	0.06
Nuckolls	153,969	0.23	196,604	0.21	27.69	42,635	0.15
Otoe	523,883	0.78	773,066	0.81	47.56	249,183	0.87
Pawnee	100,301	0.15	101,689	0.11	1.38	1,388	0.00
Perkins	112,637	0.17	153,993	0.16	36.72	41,356	0.14
Phelps	377,756	0.56	440,917	0.46	16.72	63,161	0.22
Pierce	242,314	0.36	364,582	0.38	50.46	122,268	0.43
Platte	1,075,991	1.60	1,460,946	1.52	35.78	384,955	1.34
Polk	190,484	0.28	261,222	0.27	37.14	70,738	0.25
Red Willow	367,993	0.55	455,594	0.48	23.80	87,601	0.31
Richardson	311,063	0.46	360,748	0.38	15.97	49,685	0.17
Rock	47,830	0.07	68,329	0.07	42.86	20,499	0.07
Saline	428,459	0.64	570,831	0.60	33.23	142,372	0.50
Sarpy	4,776,432	7.11	8,794,375	9.18	84.12	4,017,943	14.01
Saunders	709,440	1.06	1,032,167	1.08	45.49	322,727	1.13
Scotts Bluff	1,232,479	1.84	1,539,098	1.61	24.88	306,619	1.07
Seward	590,828	0.88	817,669	0.85	38.39	226,841	0.79
Sheridan	187,170	0.28	233,647	0.24	24.83	46,477	0.16
Sherman	86,476	0.13	120,878	0.13	39.78	34,402	0.12
Sioux	33,307	0.05	60,547	0.06	81.78	27,240	0.09
Stanton	194,573	0.29	241,279	0.25	24.00	46,706	0.16
Thayer	201,960	0.30	252,264	0.26	24.91	50,304	0.18
Thomas	19,494	0.03	34,359	0.04	76.25	14,865	0.05
Thurston	184,301	0.27	248,381	0.26	34.77	64,080	0.22
Valley	139,739	0.21	190,915	0.20	36.62	51,176	0.18
Washington	773,160	1.15	1,082,092	1.13	39.96	308,932	1.08
Wayne	283,915	0.42	377,560	0.39	32.98	93,645	0.33
Webster	129,392	0.19	151,147	0.16	16.81	21,755	0.08
Wheeler	38,318	0.06	47,822	0.05	24.80	9,504	0.03
York	529,494	0.79	622,439	0.65	17.55	92,945	0.32

Nebraska	67,148,364	100.00	95,823,701	100.00	42.70	28,675,337	100.00
Metropolitan	43,956,684	65.46	65,233,024	68.08	48.40	21,276,340	74.20
Nonmetropolitan	23,191,680	34.54	30,590,677	31.92	31.90	7,398,997	25.80

United States	11,677,052,911		16,658,962,000		42.66	4,981,909,089
Metropolitan U.S.	10,325,098,869		14,874,329,091		44.06	4,549,230,222
Nonmetropolitan U.S.	1,351,954,042		1,784,632,909		32.00	432,678,867

*Real total personal income determined using the Implicit Price Deflator for
Personal Consumption (2017=1.00).

Source: Calculations by the Nebraska Regional Economic Analysis Project (NE-REAP)
with data provided by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis

November 2023

REAP_PI_CA1400_YRVYR_300A

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Nebraska Personal Income by County:
2000 vs. 2017

	2000		2017		2000 - 2017
County	Current Dollars (1000s)	Percent of State Total	Current Dollars (1000s)	Percent of State Total	Net Percent Change	Net Change (1000s)	Share (%) of State Change
Adams	801,173	1.62	1,437,376	1.50	79.41	636,203	1.38
Antelope	187,150	0.38	305,106	0.32	63.03	117,956	0.26
Arthur	7,833	0.02	20,210	0.02	158.01	12,377	0.03
Banner	15,623	0.03	35,466	0.04	127.01	19,843	0.04
Blaine	10,025	0.02	25,482	0.03	154.18	15,457	0.03
Boone	153,047	0.31	245,888	0.26	60.66	92,841	0.20
Box Butte	304,007	0.61	494,420	0.52	62.63	190,413	0.41
Boyd	49,208	0.10	94,753	0.10	92.56	45,545	0.10
Brown	75,000	0.15	149,604	0.16	99.47	74,604	0.16
Buffalo	1,023,869	2.07	2,494,014	2.60	143.59	1,470,145	3.18
Burt	193,705	0.39	285,547	0.30	47.41	91,842	0.20
Butler	216,244	0.44	354,954	0.37	64.15	138,710	0.30
Cass	703,502	1.42	1,263,818	1.32	79.65	560,316	1.21
Cedar	239,223	0.48	379,275	0.40	58.54	140,052	0.30
Chase	110,275	0.22	214,689	0.22	94.69	104,414	0.23
Cherry	137,742	0.28	246,310	0.26	78.82	108,568	0.23
Cheyenne	254,923	0.51	464,856	0.49	82.35	209,933	0.45
Clay	191,732	0.39	288,935	0.30	50.70	97,203	0.21
Colfax	267,723	0.54	426,753	0.45	59.40	159,030	0.34
Cuming	315,976	0.64	536,346	0.56	69.74	220,370	0.48
Custer	271,637	0.55	478,161	0.50	76.03	206,524	0.45
Dakota	438,732	0.89	787,098	0.82	79.40	348,366	0.75
Dawes	180,485	0.36	315,028	0.33	74.55	134,543	0.29
Dawson	572,181	1.15	970,496	1.01	69.61	398,315	0.86
Deuel	48,603	0.10	78,393	0.08	61.29	29,790	0.06
Dixon	148,737	0.30	218,430	0.23	46.86	69,693	0.15
Dodge	946,286	1.91	1,639,670	1.71	73.27	693,384	1.50
Douglas	16,669,412	33.63	33,406,122	34.86	100.40	16,736,710	36.18
Dundy	61,567	0.12	106,220	0.11	72.53	44,653	0.10
Fillmore	194,804	0.39	293,882	0.31	50.86	99,078	0.21
Franklin	83,221	0.17	132,334	0.14	59.02	49,113	0.11
Frontier	69,239	0.14	99,147	0.10	43.20	29,908	0.06
Furnas	125,678	0.25	196,904	0.21	56.67	71,226	0.15
Gage	610,459	1.23	956,506	1.00	56.69	346,047	0.75
Garden	50,400	0.10	85,505	0.09	69.65	35,105	0.08
Garfield	49,246	0.10	79,411	0.08	61.25	30,165	0.07
Gosper	52,878	0.11	85,528	0.09	61.75	32,650	0.07
Grant	12,618	0.03	29,355	0.03	132.64	16,737	0.04
Greeley	59,387	0.12	104,147	0.11	75.37	44,760	0.10
Hall	1,373,627	2.77	2,532,732	2.64	84.38	1,159,105	2.51
Hamilton	229,040	0.46	490,416	0.51	114.12	261,376	0.57
Harlan	84,662	0.17	150,328	0.16	77.56	65,666	0.14
Hayes	17,795	0.04	47,286	0.05	165.73	29,491	0.06
Hitchcock	58,620	0.12	103,411	0.11	76.41	44,791	0.10
Holt	269,490	0.54	522,238	0.54	93.79	252,748	0.55
Hooker	14,821	0.03	28,074	0.03	89.42	13,253	0.03
Howard	148,106	0.30	268,672	0.28	81.41	120,566	0.26
Jefferson	200,240	0.40	319,342	0.33	59.48	119,102	0.26
Johnson	101,556	0.20	163,763	0.17	61.25	62,207	0.13
Kearney	189,078	0.38	338,942	0.35	79.26	149,864	0.32
Keith	198,820	0.40	345,829	0.36	73.94	147,009	0.32
Keya Paha	17,202	0.03	37,608	0.04	118.63	20,406	0.04
Kimball	97,483	0.20	158,213	0.17	62.30	60,730	0.13
Knox	201,953	0.41	374,227	0.39	85.30	172,274	0.37
Lancaster	7,727,012	15.59	14,678,104	15.32	89.96	6,951,092	15.03
Lincoln	870,505	1.76	1,631,903	1.70	87.47	761,398	1.65
Logan	16,156	0.03	33,495	0.03	107.32	17,339	0.04
Loup	7,933	0.02	31,113	0.03	292.20	23,180	0.05
McPherson	7,219	0.01	21,554	0.02	198.57	14,335	0.03
Madison	869,489	1.75	1,626,611	1.70	87.08	757,122	1.64
Merrick	183,871	0.37	351,745	0.37	91.30	167,874	0.36
Morrill	109,173	0.22	251,284	0.26	130.17	142,111	0.31
Nance	87,996	0.18	123,654	0.13	40.52	35,658	0.08
Nemaha	217,926	0.44	311,858	0.33	43.10	93,932	0.20
Nuckolls	113,663	0.23	196,604	0.21	72.97	82,941	0.18
Otoe	386,741	0.78	773,066	0.81	99.89	386,325	0.84
Pawnee	74,044	0.15	101,689	0.11	37.34	27,645	0.06
Perkins	83,151	0.17	153,993	0.16	85.20	70,842	0.15
Phelps	278,867	0.56	440,917	0.46	58.11	162,050	0.35
Pierce	178,881	0.36	364,582	0.38	103.81	185,701	0.40
Platte	794,318	1.60	1,460,946	1.52	83.92	666,628	1.44
Polk	140,619	0.28	261,222	0.27	85.77	120,603	0.26
Red Willow	271,660	0.55	455,594	0.48	67.71	183,934	0.40
Richardson	229,633	0.46	360,748	0.38	57.10	131,115	0.28
Rock	35,309	0.07	68,329	0.07	93.52	33,020	0.07
Saline	316,297	0.64	570,831	0.60	80.47	254,534	0.55
Sarpy	3,526,058	7.11	8,794,375	9.18	149.41	5,268,317	11.39
Saunders	523,723	1.06	1,032,167	1.08	97.08	508,444	1.10
Scotts Bluff	909,841	1.84	1,539,098	1.61	69.16	629,257	1.36
Seward	436,161	0.88	817,669	0.85	87.47	381,508	0.82
Sheridan	138,173	0.28	233,647	0.24	69.10	95,474	0.21
Sherman	63,838	0.13	120,878	0.13	89.35	57,040	0.12
Sioux	24,588	0.05	60,547	0.06	146.25	35,959	0.08
Stanton	143,638	0.29	241,279	0.25	67.98	97,641	0.21
Thayer	149,091	0.30	252,264	0.26	69.20	103,173	0.22
Thomas	14,391	0.03	34,359	0.04	138.75	19,968	0.04
Thurston	136,055	0.27	248,381	0.26	82.56	112,326	0.24
Valley	103,158	0.21	190,915	0.20	85.07	87,757	0.19
Washington	570,762	1.15	1,082,092	1.13	89.59	511,330	1.11
Wayne	209,592	0.42	377,560	0.39	80.14	167,968	0.36
Webster	95,520	0.19	151,147	0.16	58.24	55,627	0.12
Wheeler	28,287	0.06	47,822	0.05	69.06	19,535	0.04
York	390,883	0.79	622,439	0.65	59.24	231,556	0.50

Nebraska	49,570,265	100.00	95,823,701	100.00	93.31	46,253,436	100.00
Metropolitan	32,449,703	65.46	65,233,024	68.08	101.03	32,783,321	70.88
Nonmetropolitan	17,120,562	34.54	30,590,677	31.92	78.68	13,470,115	29.12

United States	8,620,234,000		16,658,962,000		93.25	8,038,728,000
Metropolitan U.S.	7,622,194,487		14,874,329,091		95.14	7,252,134,604
Nonmetropolitan U.S.	998,039,513		1,784,632,909		78.81	786,593,396

Source: Calculations by the Nebraska Regional Economic Analysis Project (NE-REAP)
with data provided by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis

November 2023

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