Small towns are getting smaller. "Six Myths about the Future of Small Towns,"

Nebraska’s small towns are getting smaller.

The median size of Nebraska towns is now 320 people, likely the smallest in state history, according to
David Drozd of the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Center for Public Affairs Research.

Drozd used recent population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau to calculate the number. The Associated
Press then compared that figure to median population sizes back to 1890, when the median size of Nebraska
towns was 465.

The trend line hasn’t been straight down for more than a century. Most recently, there was an uptick in 2000,
likely because of the wave of Hispanic immigrants into the state. But that one-time influx of people has
slowed, and the small-town decline is back.

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