Nebraska · Census place 3100905

Alliance, Nebraska

Alliance is a city in Box Butte County, Nebraska with an estimated 8,071 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 20th largest of 109 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
8,071
#20 of 109 in Nebraska
Change since 2020
-1.1%
-91 people
Land area
4.9 sq mi
Density
1,651 / sq mi
State median 1,829
Orange pin: Alliance. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Lincoln.

Alliance population, 2020 to 2024

Alliance lost 91 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.1%. In the latest year it moved by -13. Among 32 Nebraska places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 26th; the median place changed by +0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Nebraska has 10,206 people, so Alliance is 79% of it.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 8,171. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Alliance covers 4.89 square miles of land, for 1,651 people per square mile of land. The median Nebraska place of 5,000+ has 1,829, so Alliance is close to the typical town.

What county Alliance is in

All of Alliance's residents live in Box Butte County, which had 10,703 residents in 2024. Alliance holds 75.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Alliance

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Alliance by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 69301. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Alliance is

The Census internal point of Alliance is at 42.102600, -102.876200. Lincoln, the capital, is 332.0 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Scottsbluff, NE (14,323 people), 43.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Greeley, CO, 152.5 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
42.102600, -102.876200
DMS
42°06'9.36"N 102°52'34.32"W
UTM
13N 675609.4E 4663350.6N
Geohash
9xqzdbxc6
Plus code
85JV443F+2G

Daylight in Alliance

At 42.10° N, Alliance gets about 15 h 15 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 06 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 09 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Alliance

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Nebraska, measured between internal points. The closest is Bridgeport, 32.3 miles away, with 1,445 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Alliance, NE?

8,071 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 91 (1.1%) from 8,162 in July 2020.

What county is Alliance in?

Box Butte County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Alliance?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 69301.

How far is Alliance from Lincoln?

332.0 miles (534.3 km) in a straight line, heading ESE from Alliance.

What is the nearest larger city to Alliance?

Scottsbluff, NE, with 14,323 residents, 43.5 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.