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Nelson city, Nebraska

People
Population	487	B01003
Population, 2020 census	456	P1
Median age	62.0	B01002
Under 18	7.8%	B01001
65 and over	34.9%	B01001
Households	304	B11001
Foreign born	2.1%	B05002

Money
Median household income	$50,000	B19013
Median family income	$90,313	B19113
Per capita income	$42,193	B19301
Poverty rate	8.5%	B17001
Unemployment rate	0.0%	B23025
Civilian labor force	257	B23025
Mean commute (minutes)	21.4	B08013

Education
Bachelor's degree or higher	23.2%	B15003

Housing
Housing units	337	B25001
Owner-occupied	85.2%	B25003
Renters	14.8%	B25003
Median home value	$71,700	B25077
Median gross rent	$666	B25064

Race and ethnicity
White, not Hispanic	79.5%	B03002
Black	0.2%	B03002
Hispanic or Latino	14.8%	B03002
Asian	0.0%	B03002
American Indian and Alaska Native	0.0%	B03002

Figures from the 2020-2024 American Community Survey five-year estimates (table codes link to the same table for this area at data.census.gov) and the 2020 census (P1), via IPUMS NHGIS. Estimates for small areas carry wide margins of error; a tract's figures describe its residents, not any one organization.

Against the county: median household income here is 68% of Nuckolls County's ($73,976); poverty 8.5% against 5.7%.

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FURP records in Nelson, NE

Records	How many	Total	Biggest
Nonprofits	14	$118,105 revenue (latest return)	ELK CREEK COUNTRY CLUB INC ($79,529)
Form 5500 plan sponsors	2	3 plans	COMMERCIAL BANK (2)
Federal award recipients	102	$4,930,444 federal awards	HOUSING AUTHORITY CITY OF NELSON ($1,059,941)
State business registrations	2		DIAMOND LIME, LLC

Cross-reference: 14 nonprofits for 487 residents is 287.5 per 10,000 people; their latest-year revenue of $118,105 is $243 per resident, 0.8% of all household income here (households at the median income).

Nonprofits: biggest by revenue (latest return)

ELK CREEK COUNTRY CLUB INC Nelson, NE · $79,529
AMERICAN LEGION Nelson, NE · $32,566
ELK CREEK NON PROFIT INC Nelson, NE · $6,010
NELSON VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE SQUAD TR FUND Nelson, NE
AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY Nelson, NE
AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY Nelson, NE
NEBRASKA 4-H FOUNDATION Nelson, NE
NEBRASKA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY CLERKS Nelson, NE
NEBRASKA ASSOCIATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT Nelson, NE
NUCKOLLS COUNTY FARM BUREAU Nelson, NE

Form 5500 plan sponsors: biggest by plans

COMMERCIAL BANK Nelson, NE · 2
DIAMOND LIME, LLC Nelson, NE · 1

Federal award recipients: biggest by federal awards

HOUSING AUTHORITY CITY OF NELSON Nelson, NE · $1,059,941
NUCKOLLS COUNTY Nelson, NE · $905,700
FRAHM BROS PARTNERSHIP Nelson, NE · $546,925
FRAHM BROTHERS Nelson, NE · $535,508
TOM BARGEN, INC Nelson, NE · $491,605
HARRINGTON FARMS INC Nelson, NE · $374,392
FRAHM BROTHERS PARTNERSHIP Nelson, NE · $245,812
SOUTH CENTRAL PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT INC Nelson, NE · $234,217
TOM BARGEN INC Nelson, NE · $106,779
INDIVIDUAL RECIPIENT Nelson, NE · $73,912

Census figures are from IPUMS NHGIS: the American Community Survey 2020-2024 five-year estimates (ACS table codes shown with each figure) and the 2020 decennial census (Demographic and Housing Characteristics), by state, county, place and census tract. FURP records are placed by ZIP code (the Census Bureau's 2020 ZCTA-to-county and ZCTA-to-tract relationship files: the county or tract holding most of the ZIP's land) and by city name (Census place names, normalized), so a record's tract is its ZIP's main tract, not its street's. Cite: Jonathan Schroeder, David Van Riper, Steven Manson, Grace Cooper, Zachary Krause, Tracy Kugler, Tsu Zhu, and Steven Ruggles. IPUMS National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 21.0 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS. 2026. http://doi.org/10.18128/D050.V21.0