Crete, Nebraska

Crete population, 2020 to 2024

Crete added 14 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.2%. In the latest year it moved by +39. Among 32 Nebraska places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 18th; the median place changed by +0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Nebraska has 10,206 people, so Crete is 74% of it.

Crete covers 4.01 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 1,890 people per square mile of land. The median Nebraska place of 5,000+ has 1,829, so Crete is close to the typical town.

What county Crete is in

All of Crete's residents live in Saline County, which had 14,740 residents in 2024. Crete holds 51.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Crete

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Crete by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 68333. 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 Crete is

The Census internal point of Crete is at 40.624800, -96.952500. Lincoln, the capital, is 18.3 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lincoln, NE (300,619 people), 19.4 miles away.

Daylight in Crete

At 40.62° N, Crete gets about 15 h 05 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 16 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 49 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Crete

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Nebraska, measured between internal points. The closest is Wilber, 10.0 miles away, with 1,952 people.