Central City, Nebraska

Central City population, 2020 to 2024

Central City added 129 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.3%. In the latest year it moved by +65.

Central City covers 2.44 square miles of land, for 1,289 people per square mile of land. The median Nebraska place of 5,000+ has 1,829, so Central City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Central City is in

All of Central City's residents live in Merrick County, which had 7,837 residents in 2024. Central City holds 40.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Central City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Central City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 68826. 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 Central City is

The Census internal point of Central City is at 41.113000, -98.000300. Lincoln, the capital, is 71.0 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Aurora, NE (4,715 people), 17.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lincoln, NE, 72.3 miles away.

Daylight in Central City

At 41.11° N, Central City gets about 15 h 08 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 13 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 56 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Central City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Nebraska, measured between internal points. The closest is Aurora, 17.2 miles away, with 4,715 people.