City · Fillmore County, Nebraska

Geneva, Nebraska

Geneva is a city in Fillmore County, Nebraska. It has 2,193 residents. Geneva, Nebraska has a quality-of-life score of 90 out of 100 (very high), ranking #1,619 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Nebraska it ranks #25 of 119 cities and towns. It ranks best on violent crime rate (low), property crime rate (low) and public libraries (high). It ranks worst on public EV charging ports (low), gyms and fitness centers (low) and traffic deaths (high).

90Very high

Quality-of-life score: #1,619 of 15,651 cities and towns
Nebraska: #25 of 119 in NE
Population: 2,193 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 933.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 3118405

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety95#773/15,637
Economy65#5,463/15,631
Housing89#1,682/14,977
Health72#4,315/15,609
Healthcare84#2,464/15,650
Environment78#3,330/15,453
Education78#3,468/15,649
Infrastructure31#10,872/15,650
Community87#2,026/15,651
Leisure & amenities67#5,216/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Geneva, Nebraska ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Fillmore 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.

Strengths

Violent crime rate · low0 /100k
100/100Nebraska 218 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2023Federal Bureau of InvestigationFillmore County value
Property crime rate · low72 /100k
100/100Nebraska 1,379 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2023Federal Bureau of InvestigationFillmore County value
Public libraries · high9.1 /10k
100/100Nebraska 1.4 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesFillmore County value
Suicide rate · low0.0 /100k
100/100Nebraska 15.8 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataFillmore County value
Grocery stores · high5.5 /10k
99/100Nebraska 2.0 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsFillmore County value
Firearm deaths · low0.0 /100k
99/100Nebraska 10.7 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataFillmore County value

Weaknesses

Public EV charging ports · low0.0 /10k
3/100Nebraska 3.9 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyFillmore County value
Gyms and fitness centers · low0.0 /10k
4/100Nebraska 1.4 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsFillmore County value
Traffic deaths · high28.9 /100k
8/100Nebraska 11.9 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataFillmore County value
Distance to an airport · high103 mi
9/100Nebraska 65 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauFillmore County value
Natural hazard risk · high88.3
12/100Nebraska 52.42025Federal Emergency Management AgencyFillmore County value
New homes permitted · low0.0 /1k
13/100Nebraska 5.3 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
2,071 (2015-2019) → 2,193 (2020-2024)
+5.9%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
New homes permittedWorsening
1.5 /1k (2021) → 0.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−100%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.3× (2015-2019) → 2.1× (2020-2024)
+59%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Average commute timeWorsening
14.6 min (2015-2019) → 22.7 min (2020-2024)
+55%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Median household incomeImproving
$58,854 (2015-2019) → $80,398 (2020-2024)
+37%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
8.8% (2015-2019) → 2.0% (2020-2024)
−6.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%

What changed in five years

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.

Over about five years, Geneva, Nebraska improved on 1 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 10 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.

Improved1

Household income+37%$58,854 → $80,398

Declined1

Price / income+0.8×1.3× → 2.1×

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Geneva, Nebraska between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	14.6 min2015-2019	22.7 min2020-2024	+8.1 min	Within the margin of error	4%
Bachelor's degree or higher	23.5%2015-2019	28.5%2020-2024	+5 points	Within the margin of error	68%
Broadband subscriptions	81.5%2015-2019	85.3%2020-2024	+3.8 points	Within the margin of error	24%
Effective property tax rate	1.26%2015-2019	1.28%2020-2024	+0 points	Within the margin of error	13%
High school diploma or higher	91.5%2015-2019	96.1%2020-2024	+4.6 points	Within the margin of error	80%
Home price to income ratio	1.3×2015-2019	2.1×2020-2024	+0.8×	Declined	32%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4532015-2019	0.5132020-2024	+0.060	Within the margin of error	13%
Median household income	$58,8542015-2019	$80,3982020-2024	+37%	Improved	68%
Poverty rate	8.3%2015-2019	6.2%2020-2024	−2.2 points	Within the margin of error	64%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	26.0%2015-2019	21.9%2020-2024	−4.1 points	Within the margin of error	79%
Rent-burdened households	26.9%2015-2019	28.3%2020-2024	+1.3 points	Within the margin of error	51%

“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.

Cities and towns like Geneva, Nebraska five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Geneva, 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.

For comparison, Geneva, Nebraska itself moved −5.4 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.

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).

Age and sex

2,193 residents (±163)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

879 households (±82)

Geneva, Nebraska
Nebraska share

Under $25k9.6%†84
$25k–50k25%222
$50k–75k10%†92

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

879 households (±82)

Geneva, Nebraska
Nebraska share

Own76%668
Rent24%211

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

1,155 workers (±122)

Geneva, Nebraska
Nebraska share

Drive alone74%852
Carpool15%†177
Public transit0.0%0

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.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Fillmore County, the county holding most of Geneva's residents.

Fillmore County has 206 employer establishments, 373 for every 10,000 residents (1.50× the US rate of 248; 1.31× Nebraska's), with 1,741 paid employees at an average annual pay of $53,989. The Census Bureau also counts 531 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 206; 531 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 373; US 248 · Nebraska 284
Paid employees: 1,741
Average annual pay: $53,989; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Fillmore County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	14	25.3	1.64×More than typical	40	$56,300	38
Truck transportation	12	21.7	4.29×More than typical	64	$80,813	42
Ambulatory health care services	9	16.3	0.78×Too few to compare	61	$46,951	14
Banks and credit unions	9	16.3	5.04×Too few to compare	92	$71,750	—
Building equipment contractors	8	14.5	2.41×Too few to compare	29	$55,724	8
Insurance agencies and brokerages	8	14.5	3.30×Too few to compare	50	$80,740	10
Religious organizations	8	14.5	2.61×Too few to compare	39	$18,923	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	7	12.7	2.52×Too few to compare	29	$48,862	18
Gasoline stations	7	12.7	3.91×Too few to compare	70	$24,800	—
Lessors of real estate	7	12.7	1.03×Too few to compare	26	$111,692	78
Restaurants and other eating places	7	12.7	0.69×Too few to compare	66	$12,591	3
Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors	6	10.9	3.29×Too few to compare	11	$46,455	—

Rank places for an industry Open Fillmore County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 5,527 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.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Geneva, Nebraska: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

-53.2FY2017
3KFY2018
1.1KFY2019
3.4KFY2020
3.7KFY2021
-136.2FY2022
-6.5FY2024

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Geneva, Nebraska, so they do not add up across cities.

Geneva, Nebraska's figures are part of those of Fillmore County, NE ($206.2K in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Geneva is mostly in Fillmore County.

See federal money in Fillmore County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Geneva, Nebraska is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Adrian SmithR-NE-3 · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 1.6%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Fillmore County96100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Fillmore County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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