All Counties in Nebraska, Eviction Risk 2026
93 counties covering 593 incorporated cities and 1,591,809 residents. Statewide average landlord risk score is 3.3/10 (Low), but county-level scores vary sharply, urban counties with strong tenant protections or high rent burdens routinely score several points above rural counties.
| County↕ | Population↕ | Risk↕ | Lean↕ | Renters↕ | % income on rent↕ | Avg rent↕ | Poverty↕ | Cities↕ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Thurston County | 4,826 | 4.0 | IND | 39.9% | 19.8% | $760 | 16.7% | 7 |
| 02 | Scotts Bluff County | 27,871 | 3.8 | Rep | 27.4% | 28.9% | $817 | 17.4% | 10 |
| 03 | Brown County | 2,072 | 3.6 | Rep | 43.8% | 30.7% | $855 | 13.2% | 3 |
| 04 | Douglas County | 503,020 | 3.6 | Dem | 37.3% | 30.3% | $1,204 | 13.0% | 9 |
| 05 | Arthur County | 66 | 3.6 | Rep | 23.8% | 45.0% | $763 | 27.3% | 1 |
| 06 | Frontier County | 1,114 | 3.6 | Rep | 36.9% | 32.8% | $695 | 12.9% | 4 |
| 07 | Grant County | 145 | 3.6 | Rep | 39.3% | 31.0% | $790 | 11.8% | 1 |
| 08 | Wayne County | 8,174 | 3.6 | Rep | 35.8% | 24.9% | $908 | 12.8% | 6 |
| 09 | Otoe County | 11,258 | 3.5 | Rep | 18.4% | 29.9% | $874 | 17.0% | 9 |
| 10 | Red Willow County | 8,281 | 3.5 | Rep | 21.3% | 29.5% | $835 | 8.2% | 5 |
| 11 | Burt County | 4,981 | 3.5 | Rep | 23.6% | 27.0% | $768 | 16.8% | 6 |
| 12 | Gosper County | 1,073 | 3.5 | Rep | 32.7% | 20.0% | $916 | 14.0% | 3 |
| 13 | Morrill County | 2,979 | 3.5 | Rep | 18.8% | 33.6% | $750 | 11.9% | 3 |
| 14 | Hooker County | 523 | 3.5 | Rep | 44.6% | 11.4% | $600 | 9.7% | 2 |
| 15 | Dawson County | 19,700 | 3.4 | Rep | 26.3% | 22.5% | $909 | 11.5% | 8 |
| 16 | Dawes County | 6,084 | 3.4 | Rep | 23.6% | 30.1% | $783 | 9.4% | 3 |
| 17 | Nemaha County | 4,790 | 3.4 | Rep | 21.3% | 21.8% | $801 | 14.2% | 7 |
| 18 | Blaine County | 111 | 3.4 | Rep | 26.4% | 51.0% | $850 | 10.4% | 2 |
| 19 | Garfield County | 848 | 3.4 | Rep | 24.7% | 23.7% | $460 | 15.3% | 1 |
| 20 | Hayes County | 313 | 3.4 | Rep | 37.9% | 14.1% | $755 | 21.7% | 2 |
| 21 | Nance County | 1,570 | 3.4 | Rep | 24.6% | 32.6% | $765 | 19.5% | 2 |
| 22 | Keith County | 6,108 | 3.4 | Rep | 35.2% | 26.0% | $719 | 16.9% | 9 |
| 23 | Washington County | 11,399 | 3.4 | Rep | 25.8% | 22.8% | $908 | 8.2% | 6 |
| 24 | Sheridan County | 3,321 | 3.4 | Rep | 32.0% | 24.6% | $757 | 11.7% | 5 |
| 25 | Seward County | 13,094 | 3.4 | Rep | 27.4% | 23.2% | $950 | 9.4% | 11 |
| 26 | Knox County | 4,596 | 3.4 | Rep | 25.9% | 23.8% | $613 | 17.8% | 11 |
| 27 | Cuming County | 6,153 | 3.4 | Rep | 30.7% | 23.7% | $722 | 7.7% | 4 |
| 28 | Greeley County | 1,481 | 3.4 | Rep | 20.6% | 22.5% | $624 | 15.5% | 4 |
| 29 | Madison County | 31,584 | 3.4 | Rep | 23.1% | 22.6% | $853 | 11.2% | 6 |
| 30 | Sarpy County | 135,876 | 3.3 | Rep | 37.4% | 29.0% | $1,308 | 6.7% | 15 |
| 31 | Box Butte County | 8,798 | 3.3 | Rep | 39.7% | 26.4% | $737 | 12.1% | 3 |
| 32 | Johnson County | 3,051 | 3.3 | Rep | 24.1% | 24.8% | $714 | 13.3% | 6 |
| 33 | Richardson County | 5,860 | 3.3 | Rep | 21.7% | 25.2% | $643 | 10.1% | 10 |
| 34 | Cheyenne County | 7,479 | 3.3 | Rep | 26.3% | 23.5% | $808 | 13.0% | 6 |
| 35 | Lincoln County | 25,748 | 3.3 | Rep | 23.8% | 20.6% | $832 | 7.3% | 7 |
| 36 | Howard County | 3,874 | 3.3 | Rep | 19.7% | 27.2% | $810 | 7.6% | 8 |
| 37 | Custer County | 5,874 | 3.3 | Rep | 26.4% | 28.8% | $825 | 10.0% | 9 |
| 38 | Jefferson County | 5,101 | 3.3 | Rep | 19.3% | 27.1% | $641 | 15.5% | 9 |
| 39 | Buffalo County | 41,825 | 3.3 | Rep | 26.4% | 24.8% | $882 | 9.4% | 11 |
| 40 | Clay County | 4,750 | 3.3 | Rep | 24.2% | 24.5% | $756 | 11.3% | 11 |
| 41 | Garden County | 825 | 3.3 | Rep | 34.0% | 33.7% | $744 | 12.7% | 2 |
| 42 | Hall County | 57,047 | 3.3 | Rep | 27.5% | 23.4% | $897 | 13.5% | 5 |
| 43 | Pierce County | 5,043 | 3.3 | Rep | 21.0% | 28.9% | $939 | 11.0% | 8 |
| 44 | Lancaster County | 308,797 | 3.3 | Dem | 28.5% | 29.1% | $1,101 | 7.6% | 24 |
| 45 | Dodge County | 31,937 | 3.3 | Rep | 26.1% | 26.0% | $1,058 | 9.4% | 10 |
| 46 | Saline County | 11,974 | 3.3 | Rep | 22.1% | 20.7% | $773 | 8.1% | 8 |
| 47 | Cass County | 14,803 | 3.3 | Rep | 16.4% | 26.8% | $1,011 | 9.5% | 15 |
| 48 | Dixon County | 3,339 | 3.3 | Rep | 19.0% | 30.8% | $648 | 9.4% | 9 |
| 49 | Deuel County | 1,841 | 3.3 | Rep | 17.8% | 24.2% | $766 | 13.1% | 4 |
| 50 | Dundy County | 1,137 | 3.3 | Rep | 30.3% | 30.1% | $740 | 18.9% | 4 |
| 51 | Polk County | 3,005 | 3.3 | Rep | 21.8% | 24.8% | $692 | 9.3% | 4 |
| 52 | Dakota County | 18,376 | 3.3 | Rep | 25.6% | 19.7% | $742 | 8.2% | 6 |
| 53 | Saunders County | 14,223 | 3.3 | Rep | 17.3% | 27.4% | $1,012 | 6.6% | 14 |
| 54 | Furnas County | 3,161 | 3.3 | Rep | 17.2% | 30.0% | $833 | 12.9% | 7 |
| 55 | Chase County | 3,002 | 3.3 | Rep | 25.6% | 23.9% | $906 | 9.5% | 6 |
| 56 | Hitchcock County | 1,784 | 3.3 | Rep | 20.1% | 20.9% | $698 | 11.8% | 4 |
| 57 | Phelps County | 7,154 | 3.3 | Rep | 15.0% | 28.2% | $837 | 7.3% | 6 |
| 58 | Rock County | 626 | 3.3 | Rep | 22.5% | 28.6% | $662 | 15.5% | 2 |
| 59 | Colfax County | 8,372 | 3.2 | Rep | 19.3% | 16.0% | $828 | 22.0% | 7 |
| 60 | Hamilton County | 7,489 | 3.2 | Rep | 16.3% | 30.6% | $906 | 11.2% | 7 |
| 61 | Antelope County | 3,837 | 3.2 | Rep | 19.3% | 19.1% | $690 | 14.3% | 8 |
| 62 | Stanton County | 3,741 | 3.2 | Rep | 20.9% | 29.9% | $920 | 8.7% | 3 |
| 63 | Cherry County | 3,085 | 3.2 | Rep | 23.5% | 23.4% | $877 | 19.2% | 7 |
| 64 | Platte County | 28,242 | 3.2 | Rep | 16.0% | 23.6% | $928 | 7.7% | 11 |
| 65 | Fillmore County | 4,361 | 3.2 | Rep | 19.2% | 22.7% | $770 | 12.3% | 8 |
| 66 | York County | 9,972 | 3.2 | Rep | 17.8% | 21.6% | $869 | 9.6% | 8 |
| 67 | Cedar County | 3,911 | 3.2 | Rep | 14.6% | 20.3% | $615 | 7.4% | 10 |
| 68 | Thayer County | 3,570 | 3.2 | Rep | 21.2% | 21.3% | $745 | 11.7% | 11 |
| 69 | Webster County | 2,217 | 3.2 | Rep | 23.9% | 21.8% | $692 | 12.4% | 6 |
| 70 | Harlan County | 2,449 | 3.2 | Rep | 18.3% | 24.3% | $645 | 14.9% | 7 |
| 71 | Banner County | 103 | 3.2 | Rep | 13.0% | 7.9% | $975 | 5.1% | 1 |
| 72 | Boone County | 3,477 | 3.2 | Rep | 18.9% | 24.9% | $768 | 10.7% | 7 |
| 73 | Gage County | 16,081 | 3.2 | Rep | 21.0% | 22.5% | $779 | 10.9% | 12 |
| 74 | Keya Paha County | 228 | 3.2 | Rep | 11.6% | 28.5% | $850 | 12.1% | 2 |
| 75 | Kimball County | 2,609 | 3.2 | Rep | 20.1% | 28.6% | $828 | 16.1% | 3 |
| 76 | Logan County | 1,330 | 3.2 | Rep | 21.5% | 23.5% | $847 | 7.6% | 3 |
| 77 | Loup County | 142 | 3.2 | Rep | 14.3% | 27.5% | $950 | 11.8% | 1 |
| 78 | McPherson County | 142 | 3.2 | Rep | 25.9% | 14.5% | $631 | 2.2% | 1 |
| 79 | Perkins County | 1,778 | 3.2 | Rep | 19.8% | 22.4% | $843 | 11.3% | 3 |
| 80 | Valley County | 2,769 | 3.2 | Rep | 21.2% | 16.6% | $594 | 9.1% | 5 |
| 81 | Wheeler County | 346 | 3.2 | Rep | 33.5% | 12.3% | $478 | 6.1% | 2 |
| 82 | Merrick County | 4,881 | 3.2 | Rep | 19.2% | 20.2% | $912 | 9.7% | 8 |
| 83 | Franklin County | 2,118 | 3.2 | Rep | 11.9% | 23.5% | $817 | 12.3% | 7 |
| 84 | Nuckolls County | 2,967 | 3.2 | Rep | 12.1% | 23.7% | $649 | 16.5% | 7 |
| 85 | Butler County | 4,900 | 3.2 | Rep | 19.8% | 25.6% | $676 | 11.0% | 11 |
| 86 | Kearney County | 4,395 | 3.2 | Rep | 23.8% | 20.6% | $861 | 9.1% | 5 |
| 87 | Holt County | 6,292 | 3.2 | Rep | 19.6% | 22.1% | $765 | 10.9% | 7 |
| 88 | Pawnee County | 1,486 | 3.2 | Rep | 19.1% | 19.3% | $730 | 18.5% | 7 |
| 89 | Sherman County | 1,946 | 3.2 | Rep | 20.1% | 19.9% | $807 | 12.7% | 6 |
| 90 | Thomas County | 240 | 3.2 | Rep | 30.4% | 17.3% | $675 | 5.6% | 3 |
| 91 | Boyd County | 917 | 3.2 | Rep | 14.4% | 26.7% | $665 | 13.4% | 8 |
| 92 | Adams County | 27,353 | 3.1 | Rep | 18.0% | 24.3% | $766 | 9.1% | 7 |
| 93 | Sioux County | 218 | 3.1 | Rep | 16.0% | 13.8% | $1,063 | 5.1% | 1 |
Understanding county eviction risk in Nebraska
Nebraska's 93 counties span eviction-risk scores from 3.1 in Sioux County to 4.0 in Thurston County , a 0.9-point gap that captures how unevenly rent burdens, renter populations, and local tenant politics are distributed across the state. The statewide average sits at 3.3/10 (Low), but that single figure hides far more than it reveals, the table above scores every county on the same 1–10 scale so you can see exactly where landlord exposure concentrates.
The counties carrying the most eviction risk, Thurston County, Scotts Bluff County, Brown County, are Nebraska's denser, higher-cost markets. In Blaine County, renters spend an average of 51% of household income on rent, and 26% of its homes are renter-occupied, the cost pressure that pushes filings up and pulls tenant-protection ordinances into local politics. Larger metros also concentrate the legal-aid networks and renter-organizing capacity that lift a county's score above the rural baseline.
At the other end of the table, Sioux County, Adams County, Boyd County score lowest. These tend to be smaller, more rural counties where homeownership is the norm, rent-to-income ratios run lower, and local rent-control or just-cause ordinances are rare or state-preempted. Evictions still happen there, but the structural pressure that drives a high score (heavy rent burden, a large renter majority, organized tenant advocacy) is simply weaker.
Each county score is a population-weighted aggregate of every city scored inside it, so a county with one expensive urban core and a dozen quiet suburbs lands somewhere in between. Click any county row to drill into its cities ranked one by one, a zoomed heat map, and a full breakdown of rent burden, renter share, poverty rate, and political margin. For the statutes that apply statewide regardless of county, notice periods, security-deposit caps, just-cause and rent-control rules, see the Nebraska state overview.