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HVAC and plumbing companies in Box Butte County, NE
Competitor counts, household spending and official business counts for HVAC and plumbing companies in Box Butte County, NE, set against other counties and the U.S.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 22 out of 100: Low
Ranked #1,637 of 1,707 scored counties
#15 of 20 scored counties in Nebraska
- Listings
- 6
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 3
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $10.9M
- On home repairs, maintenance and insurance · $2,413 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.8M
- 62% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 13.3
- 2.1 times the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 10,494
- −3.0% since 2020
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What this means
The Groundwork market score for HVAC and plumbing companies in Box Butte County is 22 (low), #1,637 of 1,707 scored counties and #15 of 20 scored counties in Nebraska. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Household spending on home repairs, maintenance and insurance in Box Butte County comes to about $10.9M a year: $2,413 per household, 20% below the U.S. average. That is about $1.8M of household spending for each company on map listings, 62% below the U.S. figure of $4.8M. The spending figure covers all home repairs, maintenance and insurance, not only HVAC and plumbing companies.
Box Butte County has 6 HVAC and plumbing companies on map listings as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations, against 4% across the U.S. That comes to 13.3 for every 10,000 households, 2.1 times the U.S. rate of 6.3.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors in Box Butte County was 3 in 2023. That is one for every 1,502 households, against one for every 1,162 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $800K has gone to businesses classed as plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors in Box Butte County. Population estimates show Box Butte County declined 3.0% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How Box Butte County compares
The same measures for Nebraska and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all home repairs, maintenance and insurance by the HVAC and plumbing companies counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Box Butte County | Nebraska | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 13.3 | 6.4 | 6.3 |
| Spending per listing | $1.8M | $4.3M | $4.8M |
| Households per official establishment | 1,502 | 953 | 1,162 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +2.7% | +7.6% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −3.0% | +2.8% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on home repairs, maintenance and insurance | $2,413 | $2,751 | $3,018 |
| Median household income | $68,892 | $76,475 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 22 | 36 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 4 → 3
- Employees, 2023
- 9
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $389K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 60 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 2The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $800K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors in Box Butte County, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in Box Butte County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 10,494−3.0% since 2020
- Households
- 4,505
- Median age
- 42.2
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 77%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.3
- Land area
- 1,075 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 10
- Median household income
- $68,892+27.6% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $75,641
- Median home value
- $166,600
- Jobs located here
- 3,559
- Daytime population
- 10,119Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Nebraska
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Cass County, NE | 69 | 6 | 5.5 | $5.4M | +3.9% | #235 of 1,707 |
| 2Douglas County, NE | 67 | 133 | 5.6 | $5.2M | +3.6% | #278 of 1,707 |
| 3Sarpy County, NE | 60 | 50 | 6.7 | $4.7M | +9.0% | #497 of 1,707 |
| 4Platte County, NE | 57 | 6 | 4.4 | $5.9M | +3.9% | #595 of 1,707 |
| 5Lancaster County, NE | 56 | 78 | 5.8 | $4.7M | +3.4% | #643 of 1,707 |
| 6Dawson County, NE | 55 | 5 | 5.5 | $4.8M | +1.5% | #679 of 1,707 |
| 7Adams County, NE | 35 | 8 | 6.1 | $4.2M | −0.3% | #1,356 of 1,707 |
| 8Seward County, NE | 35 | 6 | 8.8 | $3.1M | +2.3% | #1,368 of 1,707 |
| 9Lincoln County, NE | 34 | 8 | 5.4 | $4.6M | −3.6% | #1,386 of 1,707 |
| 10Dodge County, NE | 34 | 13 | 8.6 | $3M | +2.6% | #1,407 of 1,707 |
| 15Box Butte County, NE | 22 | 6 | 13.3 | $1.8M | −3.0% | #1,637 of 1,707 |
Other business types in Box Butte County
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Questions
How many HVAC and plumbing companies are in Box Butte County, NE?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 6 HVAC and plumbing companies in Box Butte County. None of them are chain locations. The listings count heating and air-conditioning companies and plumbers. Official counts show 3 businesses with payroll classed as plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors in 2023.
How much do households in Box Butte County, NE spend on home repairs, maintenance and insurance?
About $10.9M a year, or $2,413 per household. That is 20% below the U.S. average (an index of 80, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 6 HVAC and plumbing companies on map listings, it comes to $1.8M per company. That spending covers all home repairs, maintenance and insurance, which HVAC and plumbing companies share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 4,505 households in Box Butte County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Box Butte County, NE compare with the U.S. for HVAC and plumbing companies?
Box Butte County has 13.3 HVAC and plumbing companies per 10,000 households, 2.1 times the U.S. rate of 6.3. Spending per company is $1.8M, 62% below the U.S. figure of $4.8M. At the U.S. ratio of HVAC and plumbing companies to household spending, Box Butte County would have about 2, against 6 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,502 households, against one for every 1,162 across the U.S.
How fast is Box Butte County, NE growing?
Population estimates put Box Butte County at 10,494 people in 2025, down 3.0% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 4,505 households. Median household income in Box Butte County is $68,892, 15% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 27.6%, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. Box Butte County scores 22 for HVAC and plumbing companies (low), #1,637 of 1,707 scored counties.
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