Ranking of Nebraska Counties By Percentage of Population that were American Indian and Alaska Native Alone from Census 2020

Updated on February 25, 2023.

According to the data from the United States 2020 decennial Census for Nebraska counties, in April 2020, among all Nebraska counties, Thurston County had the highest percentage of its population that identified their race as American Indian and Alaska Native Alone (58.76%), followed by Knox County (11.45%), and Sheridan County (11.04%).

The chart below shows the top 10 counties, and the table below shows the ranking of all Nebraska counties based on the percentage of the population that identified as American Indian and Alaska Native Alone.

You can see similar ranking information for other states. You can also see similar rankings of counties for other racial groups as well as for the different ethnicities in Nebraska.

Ranking of Nebraska Counties By Percentage of Pop. that were American Indian and Alaska Native Alone from Census 2020
Thurston
Knox
Sheridan
Cherry
Dawes
Box Butte
Dakota
Richardson
Colfax
Scotts Bluff
Ranking of Nebraska Counties By Percentage of Pop. that were American Indian and Alaska Native Alone from Census 2020
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Rank County American Indian & Alaska Native % of County Pop.
1 Thurston County 58.76
2 Knox County 11.45
3 Sheridan County 11.04
4 Cherry County 5.35
5 Dawes County 4.16
6 Box Butte County 3.37
7 Dakota County 3.29
8 Richardson County 2.87
9 Colfax County 2.84
10 Scotts Bluff County 2.13
11 Grant County 1.96
12 Madison County 1.50
13 Hall County 1.45
14 Saline County 1.43
15 Burt County 1.24
16 Kimball County 1.22
17 Dundy County 1.21
18 Morrill County 1.19
19 Dawson County 1.12
20 McPherson County 1.00
21 Boyd County 0.99
22 Douglas County 0.99
23 Johnson County 0.98
24 Dodge County 0.94
25 Platte County 0.89
26 Lancaster County 0.83
27 Cuming County 0.79
28 Banner County 0.74
29 Deuel County 0.71
30 Hooker County 0.70
31 Furnas County 0.67
32 Wayne County 0.63
33 Jefferson County 0.62
34 Lincoln County 0.62
35 York County 0.62
36 Adams County 0.60
37 Thomas County 0.60
38 Dixon County 0.59
39 Hayes County 0.58
40 Clay County 0.56
41 Buffalo County 0.55
42 Cheyenne County 0.55
43 Stanton County 0.55
44 Sherman County 0.54
45 Sarpy County 0.53
46 Harlan County 0.52
47 Holt County 0.52
48 Merrick County 0.48
49 Otoe County 0.48
50 Nemaha County 0.47
51 Red Willow County 0.47
52 Webster County 0.47
53 Gage County 0.46
54 Polk County 0.44
55 Hamilton County 0.42
56 Howard County 0.42
57 Keith County 0.42
58 Brown County 0.41
59 Custer County 0.41
60 Nance County 0.41
61 Phelps County 0.40
62 Wheeler County 0.39
63 Fillmore County 0.38
64 Saunders County 0.38
65 Cass County 0.37
66 Boone County 0.34
67 Seward County 0.32
68 Pierce County 0.30
69 Thayer County 0.30
70 Butler County 0.28
71 Kearney County 0.28
72 Pawnee County 0.28
73 Keya Paha County 0.26
74 Antelope County 0.25
75 Valley County 0.25
76 Frontier County 0.24
77 Chase County 0.23
78 Greeley County 0.23
79 Franklin County 0.21
80 Garden County 0.21
81 Gosper County 0.21
82 Sioux County 0.18
83 Washington County 0.18
84 Garfield County 0.17
85 Cedar County 0.16
86 Logan County 0.14
87 Perkins County 0.11
88 Nuckolls County 0.10
89 Rock County 0.08
90 Arthur County 0.00
91 Blaine County 0.00
92 Hitchcock County 0.00
93 Loup County 0.00