Seward, Nebraska

Seward population, 2020 to 2024

Seward added 56 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +87. Among 32 Nebraska places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 14th; the median place changed by +0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Nebraska has 10,206 people, so Seward is 76% of it.

Seward covers 4.40 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 1,762 people per square mile of land. The median Nebraska place of 5,000+ has 1,829, so Seward is close to the typical town.

What county Seward is in

All of Seward's residents live in Seward County, which had 17,769 residents in 2024. Seward holds 43.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Seward

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Seward by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 68434. 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 Seward is

The Census internal point of Seward is at 40.909200, -97.096100. Lincoln, the capital, is 21.8 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lincoln, NE (300,619 people), 23.1 miles away.

Daylight in Seward

At 40.91° N, Seward gets about 15 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 14 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 53 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Seward

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Nebraska, measured between internal points. The closest is Milford, 9.7 miles away, with 2,211 people.