Is population growing or shrinking?

Refreshed annually
It shrank by 16 between 2024 and 2025. Changes in population reflect birth and death rates, immigration patterns, regional shifts, and even the overall health of the economy. Keya Paha County, NE’s 2% annual decrease was primarily driven by people moving to other states.
In the decade between 2015 and 2025, Keya Paha County, NE’s population shrank by 0.63%.

-16

population change (2024 to 2025)

-2%

percent change in population (2024 to 2025)
Since 2000, Keya Paha County, NE’s population increased 9 out of 25 years. The largest increase occurred between 2020 and 2021, when Keya Paha County, NE gained 36 residents. Its largest decline occurred between 2004 and 2005 when there were 39 fewer residents.

Keya Paha County, NE lost 16 residents between 2024 and 2025.

Annual population change, 2001–2025

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What contributes to population change in Keya Paha County, NE?

A county’s population is influenced by three factors:
  • Natural population change: If births outnumber deaths in a given year, natural population growth is positive. If deaths exceed births, it is negative. Between 2024 and 2025 natural population change was negative in Keya Paha County, NE, with deaths exceeding births by six.
  • Immigration: international migration directly into or out of a county: If more people move in than move out, population change from immigration is positive. If more people move out than move in, it’s negative. Between 2024 to 2025, Keya Paha County’s population change from immigration was positive with about one more person coming from another country directly to Keya Paha County than leaving.
  • Domestic migration, moving between counties: Between 2024 to 2025, Keya Paha County’s population change from domestic migration was negative with about 11 more people moving to any other county in the US.

Between 2024 and 2025, domestic migration was the primary driver of population decline in Keya Paha County, NE.

Components of population change from previous year, 2011–2025

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