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Insurance agencies in Custer County, NE
How Custer County, NE compares with other counties and the U.S. for insurance agencies: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 19 out of 100: Low
Ranked #2,104 of 2,272 scored counties
#16 of 25 scored counties in Nebraska
- Listings
- 12
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 13
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $9.4M
- On vehicle insurance · $2,083 a household
- Spending per listing
- $781K
- 38% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 26.7
- 71% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 10,500
- 0.0% since 2020
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What this means
The Groundwork market score for insurance agencies in Custer County is 19 (low), #2,104 of 2,272 scored counties and #16 of 25 scored counties in Nebraska. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Map listings as of September 2026 show 12 insurance agencies in Custer County. None of them are chain locations, against 21% across the U.S. That is 26.7 per 10,000 households, 71% above the U.S. rate of 15.6.
Household spending on vehicle insurance in Custer County comes to about $9.4M a year: $2,083 per household, 6% above the U.S. average. That is about $781K of household spending for each agency on map listings, 38% below the U.S. figure of $1.3M.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in Custer County was 13 in 2023. That is one for every 346 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S. Population estimates show Custer County held about level from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How Custer County compares
The same measures for Nebraska and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all vehicle insurance by the insurance agencies 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 | Custer County | Nebraska | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 26.7 | 20.4 | 15.6 |
| Spending per listing | $781K | $859K | $1.3M |
| Households per official establishment | 346 | 516 | 966 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +0.1% | −1.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | 0.0% | +2.8% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on vehicle insurance | $2,083 | $1,750 | $1,957 |
| Median household income | $67,906 | $76,475 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 19 | 22 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 15 → 13
- Employees, 2023
- 45
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $2.7M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 120 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 8The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in Custer 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 Custer County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 10,5000.0% since 2020
- Households
- 4,502
- Median age
- 43.6
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 69%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.4
- Land area
- 2,576 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 4
- Median household income
- $67,906+30.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $85,495
- Median home value
- $157,800
- Jobs located here
- 4,714
- Daytime population
- 9,965Residents 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Sarpy County, NE | 51 | 83 | 11.2 | $1.6M | +9.0% | #1,069 of 2,272 |
| 2Saunders County, NE | 49 | 10 | 11.2 | $1.8M | +6.0% | #1,129 of 2,272 |
| 3Otoe County, NE | 42 | 8 | 12.5 | $1.6M | +3.9% | #1,383 of 2,272 |
| 4Cass County, NE | 37 | 18 | 16.6 | $1.2M | +3.9% | #1,573 of 2,272 |
| 5Dakota County, NE | 37 | 14 | 18.8 | $989K | +0.7% | #1,587 of 2,272 |
| 6Saline County, NE | 35 | 9 | 17.5 | $1.3M | +1.9% | #1,638 of 2,272 |
| 7Seward County, NE | 30 | 12 | 17.7 | $1.1M | +2.3% | #1,807 of 2,272 |
| 8Washington County, NE | 29 | 16 | 19.0 | $1.1M | +1.8% | #1,839 of 2,272 |
| 9Dawson County, NE | 28 | 17 | 18.6 | $1.1M | +1.5% | #1,867 of 2,272 |
| 10Platte County, NE | 28 | 26 | 19.0 | $981K | +3.9% | #1,871 of 2,272 |
| 16Custer County, NE | 19 | 12 | 26.7 | $781K | 0.0% | #2,104 of 2,272 |
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Questions
How many insurance agencies are in Custer County, NE?
There are 12 insurance agencies on map listings in Custer County as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations. The listings count insurance agencies. Official counts show 13 businesses with payroll classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in 2023.
How much do households in Custer County, NE spend on vehicle insurance?
About $9.4M a year, or $2,083 per household. That is 6% above the U.S. average (an index of 106, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 12 insurance agencies on map listings, it comes to $781K per agency. It is estimated from the incomes of the 4,502 households in Custer County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Custer County, NE compare with the U.S. for insurance agencies?
Custer County has 26.7 insurance agencies per 10,000 households, 71% above the U.S. rate of 15.6. Spending per agency is $781K, 38% below the U.S. figure of $1.3M. At the national ratio of insurance agencies to household spending, Custer County would have about 8, against 12 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 346 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S.
How fast is Custer County, NE growing?
Population estimates put Custer County at 10,500 people in 2025, unchanged since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 4,502 households. The median household income in Custer County is $67,906 a year, 16% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 30.1% from the 2015–2019 survey, 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. Custer County scores 19 for insurance agencies (low), #2,104 of 2,272 scored counties.
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