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Box Butte County, Nebraska

A county in Nebraska, ranked 24 of 93 by population.

CountyFIPS 31013

Within Nebraska
Box Butte County, highlighted, with the areas around it. Boundaries generalised from the 2025 Census cartographic boundary file; neighbour fills carry no data. The dot marks Alliance, the county seat, located via the 2025 Census Gazetteer.

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Population
10,494
-327 (-3.0%) since 2020
Land area
1,075
square miles. A further 0.2% of the total area is water
Population density
9.8
people per square mile, computed rather than published
County seat
Alliance
Seat of county government.
Established
1886
139 years ago
Largest city
Alliance city
Population 7,914.

Sources: US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates, released 26 March 2026; US Census Bureau, Gazetteer Files, 2025 Gazetteer Files, released 10 September 2025; Wikidata (CC0), Wikidata. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

Satellite view

Aerial imagery of Box Butte County with its boundary drawn on top. A map shows you the shape; this shows you what is inside it, and which side of the line a place falls on.

Aerial view of Box Butte County, Nebraska from the USGS National Map, with its boundary outlined
Imagery: USGS National Map, USGS Imagery Only, public domain, requested from USGS by your browser when you reach this point on the page, at 800 by 653 pixels. The boundary is the 2025 Census cartographic boundary file, reprojected to Web Mercator to match the imagery. You can also open the USGS National Map viewer.

Where Box Butte County ranks

Position among the 93 counties of Nebraska, and among all 3,144 US counties and county-equivalents. Computed from the figures on this page.

MeasureValueIn NebraskaNationally
Population10,49424th of 932,379th of 3,144
Land area1,075 sq mi13th of 93593rd of 3,144
Population density9.8 per sq mi44th of 932,573rd of 3,144
Median household income$68,89247th of 931,274th of 3,143

Full data for Box Butte County

Every figure below is attributed to the Census Bureau product it came from, with the vintage of that product.
MeasureValueSource and vintage
Population10,494Vintage 2025 Population Estimates
Population in 202010,821Vintage 2025 Population Estimates
2020 estimates base?10,835Vintage 2025 Population Estimates
Land area1,075 sq mi2025 Gazetteer Files
Water area2.7 sq mi2025 Gazetteer Files
Total area1,078 sq mi2025 Gazetteer Files
Population density?9.8 per sq miComputed: Vintage 2025 estimates divided by 2025 Gazetteer land area
Median household income$68,892American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Median home value$166,600American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Median age41.5American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Households4,505American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Housing units5,212American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates

Sources: US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates, released 26 March 2026; US Census Bureau, Gazetteer Files, 2025 Gazetteer Files, released 10 September 2025; US Census Bureau, American Community Survey, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates, released 29 January 2026. Population density is computed here, not published: it divides the Vintage 2025 population estimate by the 2025 Gazetteer land area, which are two different Census products. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

How the population changed

The Census Bureau publishes the components behind an estimate, not just the total. For the year to July 2025:

Births minus deaths
-4
118 births, 122 deaths
Net migration
-160
More people moved out than moved in.

Source: US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates, released 26 March 2026. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

The 5 areas bordering Box Butte County

Ordered by the length of the border actually shared, which the Census Bureau publishes in its county adjacency file and which no other county reference presents.

Bordering areaStateShared borderPopulation
Dawes CountyNebraska34 mi7,858
Morrill CountyNebraska34 mi4,404
Sheridan CountyNebraska33 mi4,809
Sioux CountyNebraska32 mi1,188
Scotts Bluff CountyNebraska2.0 mi35,586

Source: US Census Bureau, County Adjacency File, 2025 County Adjacency File, released 15 September 2025. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

All 93 counties of Nebraska

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Data on this page last rebuilt 30 August 2026. How these figures are produced.