Hastings, Nebraska

Hastings population, 2020 to 2024

Hastings added 20 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.1%. In the latest year it moved by +265. Among 32 Nebraska places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 19th; the median place changed by +0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Nebraska has 10,206 people, so Hastings is 2.5 times that size.

Hastings covers 14.91 square miles of land and 0.18 of water, for 1,687 people per square mile of land. The median Nebraska place of 5,000+ has 1,829, so Hastings is close to the typical town.

What county Hastings is in

All of Hastings's residents live in Adams County, which had 31,196 residents in 2024. Hastings holds 80.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hastings

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Hastings by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 68901. 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 Hastings is

The Census internal point of Hastings is at 40.596300, -98.390300. Lincoln, the capital, is 89.7 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Grand Island, NE (53,250 people), 22.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lincoln, NE, 91.0 miles away.

Daylight in Hastings

At 40.60° N, Hastings 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 Hastings

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Nebraska, measured between internal points. The closest is Wood River, 19.1 miles away, with 1,164 people.