Agricultural Economics, Department of

 

Cornhusker Economics

Date of this Version

2014

Document Type

Newsletter Issue

Citation

Cornhusker Economics (March 5, 2014)

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Published by University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension, Institute of Agriculture & Natural Resources, Department of Agricultural Economics. Copyright © [2014] Board of Regents, University of Nebraska. http://agecon.unl.edu/cornhuskereconomics

Abstract

There is no doubt that Nebraska’s rural population has, in most cases, been in decline. Between the Census years of 2000 and 2010 the state saw a population increase of 6.7 percent, led by growth of 13.7 percent in nine Metropolitan counties. Over the same period, Nebraska’s 84 Non-Metropolitan counties saw their populations decline by 1.8 percent, led by an 8.5 percent population decline in the 28 most rural counties (labeled here as ‘Frontier’ counties; Table 1 on next page).

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