Population loss in rural Nebraska: Loup County

Source:  Wikipedia (Loup County, Taylor)

Taylor is the county seat of Loup County.

Population loss by degrees:  80-89%, 70-79%, 60-69%, 50-59%.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts

Percentage of population 25 and older with a bachelor's degree:

• 22.9% - Loup County
• 30.6% - Nebraska
• 30.9% - U.S.

Percentage of population 65 and older:

• 29.1% - Loup County
• 15.4% - Nebraska
• 15.6% - U.S.

The last time Loup County voted for a Democratic candidate for president was in 1932. (Barry Goldwater won by 32.8 percentage points in 1964, and George Wallace received 8.8% of the vote in 1968.)

Related reading:

The Nation: Pastoral Poverty; The Seeds of Decline.  (The New York Times, 12/8/2002)

Loup County, Neb., the poorest county in the nation, is down to 712 people -- a third of the population it had nearly a century ago. A four-bedroom house goes for $30,000. But building a life is much harder. In Loup County, what rides on the unrelenting winds are symptoms of despair that have taken hold there and across a large swath of rural America.

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