Dating Pool in Nebraska

What the numbers mean for dating in Nebraska

Nebraska's 1.98 million residents include an estimated 346,000 women aged 18 to 44, about 0.64% of the national pool — and they are heavily concentrated in the east. The Omaha metro, at close to one million people, holds nearly half the state and offers a surprisingly robust white-collar economy anchored by Berkshire Hathaway, Union Pacific, and Mutual of Omaha. Lincoln adds another 340,000 plus the University of Nebraska's student body, while the Sandhills and western plains are among America's emptiest places.

Nebraska is young for a plains state, with a median age of 37.2, and its women are better educated than regional stereotypes suggest: about 35% of those 25 and older hold a bachelor's degree. Around 31% of adult women have never married, in keeping with the region's earlier-marriage norms. The state's low unemployment and low cost of living have helped Omaha and Lincoln retain graduates who might once have left for Chicago or Denver.

A national probability from our calculator scales roughly with a state's share of the US population: preferences matching 1% of US women translate to about 3,460 women in Nebraska. State demographics like education and marriage rates shift the real figure up or down.