Beatrice, Nebraska

Beatrice population, 2020 to 2024

Beatrice added 68 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +32. Among 32 Nebraska places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 15th; the median place changed by +0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Nebraska has 10,206 people, so Beatrice is 1.2 times that size.

Beatrice covers 9.46 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 1,299 people per square mile of land. The median Nebraska place of 5,000+ has 1,829, so Beatrice is less dense than the typical town.

What county Beatrice is in

All of Beatrice's residents live in Gage County, which had 21,687 residents in 2024. Beatrice holds 56.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Beatrice

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Beatrice by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 68310. 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 Beatrice is

The Census internal point of Beatrice is at 40.273300, -96.746000. Lincoln, the capital, is 37.0 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lincoln, NE (300,619 people), 37.3 miles away.

Daylight in Beatrice

At 40.27° N, Beatrice gets about 15 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 18 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Beatrice

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Nebraska, measured between internal points. The closest is Wymore, 11.3 miles away, with 1,345 people.