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Ranked · Open a storefront · Nebraska

Best cities to open a storefront in Nebraska

Cities of 25,000+ residents, scored with the “Open a storefront” weighting the live tool uses, heaviest on median household income, businesses per 1k residents, avg. weekly wage, crime index. Scores are relative to this set; open the tool to change the weights and re-rank.

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Top 10 · computed ranking

  1. 1.Papillion, NE25k residents

    71/100

    median household income: $111,679 · avg. weekly wage: $1,160/wk · sales tax: 7%

  2. 2.Fremont, NE28k residents

    64/100

    median household income: $71,152 · avg. weekly wage: $1,064/wk · sales tax: 7%

  3. 3.Hastings, NE25k residents

    64/100

    median household income: $64,048 · avg. weekly wage: $1,029/wk · sales tax: 7%

  4. 4.Bellevue, NE65k residents

    63/100

    median household income: $85,462 · avg. weekly wage: $1,160/wk · sales tax: 7%

  5. 5.La Vista, NE17k residents

    60/100

    median household income: $81,961 · avg. weekly wage: $1,160/wk · sales tax: 7%

  6. 6.Grand Island, NE53k residents

    58/100

    median household income: $63,795 · avg. weekly wage: $1,074/wk · sales tax: 7%

  7. 7.Kearney, NE34k residents

    57/100

    median household income: $69,724 · avg. weekly wage: $1,036/wk · sales tax: 7%

  8. 8.North Platte, NE23k residents

    55/100

    median household income: $58,097 · avg. weekly wage: $1,070/wk · sales tax: 7%

  9. 9.Columbus, NE24k residents

    54/100

    median household income: $64,626 · avg. weekly wage: $1,107/wk · sales tax: 7%

  10. 10.Lincoln, NE295k residents

    50/100

    median household income: $71,867 · avg. weekly wage: $1,183/wk · sales tax: 7%

Methodology: each city is scored 0–100 by min–max normalizing every weighted facet across this candidate set (direction-aware), identical math to the tool's “Best fit” tab. A different weighting produces a different order, which is the point: this is a starting shortlist, not a verdict.

Questions & answers
Which city is best to open a storefront in Nebraska?
Papillion, NE ranks first with a fit score of 71/100, followed by Fremont (64) and Hastings (64), using the "Open a storefront" weighting.
How is this ranking calculated?
Each of the 10 candidate cities (25,000+ residents) is scored 0 to 100 by min-max normalizing the weighted facets, heaviest on median household income, businesses per 1k residents, avg. weekly wage, crime index, across this set. Change the weights in the live tool and the order changes with them.