Broken Bow, Nebraska

Broken Bow population, 2020 to 2024

Broken Bow lost 20 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.6%. In the latest year it moved by -58.

Broken Bow covers 2.02 square miles of land, for 1,728 people per square mile of land. The median Nebraska place of 5,000+ has 1,829, so Broken Bow is close to the typical town.

What county Broken Bow is in

All of Broken Bow's residents live in Custer County, which had 10,487 residents in 2024. Broken Bow holds 33.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Broken Bow

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Broken Bow by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 68822. 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 Broken Bow is

The Census internal point of Broken Bow is at 41.405200, -99.640800. Lincoln, the capital, is 158.6 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cozad, NE (3,945 people), 41.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lincoln, NE, 159.8 miles away.

Daylight in Broken Bow

At 41.41° N, Broken Bow gets about 15 h 10 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 00 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Broken Bow

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Nebraska, measured between internal points. The closest is Loup City, 36.0 miles away, with 1,044 people.