Fullerton is a city in Nance County, Nebraska. It has 1,346 residents. Fullerton, Nebraska has a quality-of-life score of 62 out of 100 (high), ranking #5,972 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Nebraska it ranks #101 of 119 cities and towns. It ranks best on grocery stores (high), property crime rate (low) and public libraries (high). It ranks worst on preventable hospital stays (high), flu vaccinations (low) and public EV charging ports (low).
62High
Quality-of-life score
#5,972 of 15,651 cities and towns
Nebraska
#101 of 119 in NE
Population
1,346 (2020-2024)
Land area
1 mi²
Density
1,003.3 /mi²
FIPS code
3117810
Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 70 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.
Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.
Safety94#935/15,637
Economy22#12,193/15,631
Housing81#2,854/14,977
Health42#9,085/15,609
Healthcare31#10,775/15,650
Environment61#5,977/15,453
Education81#3,019/15,649
Infrastructure25#11,716/15,650
Community80#3,127/15,651
Leisure & amenities51#7,597/15,651
Strengths · Weaknesses
Indicators where Fullerton, Nebraska ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Nance County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.
How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.
Cities and towns like Fullerton, Nebraska five years ago that improved
The places whose measures looked most like those of Fullerton, Nebraska in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.
Who lives here
Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).
Income
How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.
Homes
Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.
Getting to work
How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.
Local businesses
Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.
Federal contracts performed here
Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Fullerton is mostly in Nance County.
Over about five years, Fullerton, Nebraska improved on 0 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 11 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.
Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing
Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.
Improved0
No measure improved by more than its margin of error.
Declined2
Poverty+15 points12.4% → 26.9%
Poverty rate
12.4% → 26.9%2015-2019 → 2020-2024
+15 pointsBeyond the margin of error (±10.1 points)
Standing among cities and towns: 54 → 10 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
Less favourable than 98% of cities and towns
Price / income+1.0×1.7× → 2.7×
Home price to income ratio
1.7× → 2.7×2015-2019 → 2020-2024
+1.0×Beyond the margin of error (±0.9×)
Standing among cities and towns: 95 → 72 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
Less favourable than 78% of cities and towns
All 13 measures
Change of every measure of Fullerton, Nebraska between two periods about five years apart
Measure
Before
After
Change
Reading
Favourable vs peers
Average commute time
17.2 min2015-2019
19.9 min2020-2024
+2.8 min
Within the margin of error
21%
Bachelor's degree or higher
19.2%2015-2019
18.4%2020-2024
−0.8 points
Within the margin of error
22%
Broadband subscriptions
80.7%2015-2019
84.3%2020-2024
+3.6 points
Within the margin of error
23%
Effective property tax rate
1.44%2015-2019
1.28%2020-2024
−0.2 points
Within the margin of error
49%
High school diploma or higher
87.7%2015-2019
90.9%2020-2024
+3.2 points
Within the margin of error
70%
Home price to income ratio
1.7×2015-2019
2.7×2020-2024
+1.0×
Declined
22%
Income inequality (Gini index)
0.4152015-2019
0.4202020-2024
+0.006
Within the margin of error
45%
Median household income
$45,2782015-2019
$47,7502020-2024
+5.5%
Within the margin of error
12%
Poverty rate
12.4%2015-2019
26.9%2020-2024
+15 points
Declined
2%
Public transit commuters
0.0%2015-2019
0.0%2020-2024
0 points
Within the margin of error
60%
Rent as share of income
26.6%2015-2019
28.6%2020-2024
+2 points
Within the margin of error
40%
Rent-burdened households
38.7%2015-2019
48.3%2020-2024
+9.6 points
Within the margin of error
25%
Uninsured residents (under 65)
10.1%2015-2019
12.1%2020-2024
+2 points
Within the margin of error
25%
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.
Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.
For comparison, Fullerton, Nebraska itself moved −12.5 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).
How the ranking works
Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.
Household income
542 households (±68)
Fullerton, Nebraska
Nebraska share
Under $25k19%†102
Under $25k
19%±6.3 points
102 households±37 (90% margin of error)
14%in Nebraska
15%in United States
−11.3 pointssince 2015–2019
Wide margin of error: read with care
$25k–50k33%†178
$25k–50k
33%±9.9 points
178 households±58 (90% margin of error)
18%in Nebraska
17%in United States
+8.7 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$50k–75k15%†81
$50k–75k
15%±5.2 points
81 households±30 (90% margin of error)
17%in Nebraska
16%in United States
−8.4 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$75k–100k17%†94
$75k–100k
17%±5.9 points
94 households±34 (90% margin of error)
14%in Nebraska
13%in United States
+7.6 pointssince 2015–2019
Wide margin of error: read with care
$100k–150k8.7%†47
$100k–150k
8.7%±3.9 points
47 households±22 (90% margin of error)
19%in Nebraska
18%in United States
−0.1 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$150k–200k4.8%†26
$150k–200k
4.8%±2.7 points
26 households±15 (90% margin of error)
9.1%in Nebraska
9.6%in United States
+2.5 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$200k or more2.6%†14
$200k or more
2.6%±2.0 points
14 households±11 (90% margin of error)
9.4%in Nebraska
13%in United States
+0.8 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Under $25k (−11.3 points).
† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.
The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Nance County, the county holding most of Fullerton's residents.
Nance County has 85 employer establishments, 260 for every 10,000 residents (1.05× the US rate of 248; 0.91× Nebraska's), with 450 paid employees at an average annual pay of $35,678. The Census Bureau also counts 290 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.
Establishments
85
290 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents
260
US 248 · Nebraska 284
Paid employees
450
Average annual pay
$35,678
US $68,342
Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Nance County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation
County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)
Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 3,274 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.
No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.
