County health data
Health data for Nebraska counties
CDC PLACES estimates for 93 counties in Nebraska. Statewide, 10.6% of adults have diagnosed diabetes (CDC BRFSS). The highest county rate is Sioux County at 16.0%. HRSA lists a shortage area designation in 89 of 93.
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Counties in Nebraska
- Adams Countydiabetes 11.8%, 1 shortage area, 1 hospital
- Antelope Countydiabetes 12.9%, 2 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Arthur Countydiabetes 12.1%, 2 shortage areas
- Banner Countydiabetes 13.1%, 2 shortage areas
- Blaine Countydiabetes 13.3%, 2 shortage areas
- Boone Countydiabetes 12.7%, 1 shortage area, 1 hospital
- Box Butte Countydiabetes 13.0%, 3 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Boyd Countydiabetes 14.8%, 2 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Brown Countydiabetes 13.2%, 2 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Buffalo Countydiabetes 9.6%, 2 shortage areas, 2 hospitals
- Burt Countydiabetes 13.1%, 1 shortage area
- Butler Countydiabetes 11.3%, 1 shortage area, 1 hospital
- Cass Countydiabetes 10.8%, 1 shortage area
- Cedar Countydiabetes 11.3%, 2 shortage areas
- Chase Countydiabetes 12.7%, 2 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Cherry Countydiabetes 13.1%, 3 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Cheyenne Countydiabetes 12.9%, 3 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Clay Countydiabetes 11.8%, 2 shortage areas
- Colfax Countydiabetes 13.2%, 2 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Cuming Countydiabetes 12.1%, 1 shortage area, 1 hospital
- Custer Countydiabetes 12.2%, 1 shortage area, 2 hospitals
- Dakota Countydiabetes 12.8%, 2 shortage areas
- Dawes Countydiabetes 10.6%, 2 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Dawson Countydiabetes 13.5%, 3 shortage areas, 3 hospitals
- Deuel Countydiabetes 14.2%, 2 shortage areas
- Dixon Countydiabetes 13.2%, 2 shortage areas
- Dodge Countydiabetes 11.9%, 1 hospital
- Douglas Countydiabetes 9.8%, 9 hospitals
- Dundy Countydiabetes 14.2%, 2 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Fillmore Countydiabetes 12.3%, 1 shortage area, 1 hospital
- Franklin Countydiabetes 14.2%, 2 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Frontier Countydiabetes 11.9%, 2 shortage areas
- Furnas Countydiabetes 13.5%, 2 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Gage Countydiabetes 12.6%, 1 shortage area, 1 hospital
- Garden Countydiabetes 15.5%, 2 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Garfield Countydiabetes 12.3%, 2 shortage areas
- Gosper Countydiabetes 12.4%, 2 shortage areas
- Grant Countydiabetes 12.1%, 2 shortage areas
- Greeley Countydiabetes 12.6%, 2 shortage areas
- Hall Countydiabetes 12.0%, 3 shortage areas, 2 hospitals
- Hamilton Countydiabetes 10.5%, 1 shortage area, 1 hospital
- Harlan Countydiabetes 13.0%, 1 shortage area, 1 hospital
- Hayes Countydiabetes 14.1%, 2 shortage areas
- Hitchcock Countydiabetes 13.4%, 2 shortage areas
- Holt Countydiabetes 12.9%, 3 shortage areas, 3 hospitals
- Hooker Countydiabetes 13.3%, 2 shortage areas
- Howard Countydiabetes 11.5%, 1 shortage area, 1 hospital
- Jefferson Countydiabetes 13.4%, 1 shortage area, 1 hospital
- Johnson Countydiabetes 11.6%, 1 shortage area, 1 hospital
- Kearney Countydiabetes 10.8%, 1 shortage area, 1 hospital
- Keith Countydiabetes 13.2%, 2 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Keya Paha Countydiabetes 14.2%, 2 shortage areas
- Kimball Countydiabetes 15.2%, 3 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Knox Countydiabetes 14.1%, 2 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Lancaster Countydiabetes 9.6%, 1 shortage area, 4 hospitals
- Lincoln Countydiabetes 12.9%, 2 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Logan Countydiabetes 12.0%, 2 shortage areas
- Loup Countydiabetes 13.5%, 2 shortage areas
- Madison Countydiabetes 11.8%, 1 shortage area, 1 hospital
- McPherson Countydiabetes 13.3%, 2 shortage areas
- Merrick Countydiabetes 11.7%, 1 shortage area, 1 hospital
- Morrill Countydiabetes 13.3%, 3 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Nance Countydiabetes 12.7%, 3 shortage areas
- Nemaha Countydiabetes 11.7%, 3 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Nuckolls Countydiabetes 12.7%, 2 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Otoe Countydiabetes 11.9%, 1 shortage area, 2 hospitals
- Pawnee Countydiabetes 14.4%, 3 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Perkins Countydiabetes 11.9%, 2 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Phelps Countydiabetes 11.5%, 1 shortage area, 1 hospital
- Pierce Countydiabetes 10.9%, 2 shortage areas, 2 hospitals
- Platte Countydiabetes 11.9%, 1 shortage area, 2 hospitals
- Polk Countydiabetes 12.0%, 1 shortage area, 1 hospital
- Red Willow Countydiabetes 12.1%, 2 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Richardson Countydiabetes 14.0%, 2 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Rock Countydiabetes 12.5%, 2 shortage areas
- Saline Countydiabetes 11.8%, 1 shortage area, 1 hospital
- Sarpy Countydiabetes 9.4%, 2 hospitals
- Saunders Countydiabetes 10.5%, 1 shortage area, 1 hospital
- Scotts Bluff Countydiabetes 13.0%, 3 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Seward Countydiabetes 9.5%, 1 shortage area, 1 hospital
- Sheridan Countydiabetes 13.9%, 3 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Sherman Countydiabetes 13.7%, 2 shortage areas
- Sioux Countydiabetes 16.0%, 3 shortage areas
- Stanton Countydiabetes 11.5%, 2 shortage areas
- Thayer Countydiabetes 13.2%, 2 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Thomas Countydiabetes 11.3%, 2 shortage areas
- Thurston Countydiabetes 13.4%, 3 shortage areas, 2 hospitals
- Valley Countydiabetes 12.9%, 2 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Washington Countydiabetes 10.7%, 1 hospital
- Wayne Countydiabetes 9.7%, 2 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Webster Countydiabetes 12.9%, 3 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Wheeler Countydiabetes 13.2%, 2 shortage areas
- York Countydiabetes 11.2%, 1 shortage area, 2 hospitals
Source: CDC PLACES county data, as of December 4, 2025. Publisher page
Source: CDC BRFSS prevalence data, as of September 15, 2026. Publisher page
Source: HRSA Health Professional Shortage Areas, as of October 14, 2026. Publisher page
Nebraska rural health plan
RHTP – Make Nebraska Healthy Again - Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) will build a prevention-first, tech-enabled sustainable rural health care system.
Initiatives, as the state's abstract names them (page 41):
- Make Rural Nebraska Healthy Again through Food as Medicine
- Regionalized Rural Access and Navigation
- Rural Workforce Acceleration
- eHealth and Mobile
- Rural Emergency Behavioral Health
- Assisted Living Facility (ALF) Special Needs Population Incentive Model
- Nebraska Rural Health Technology Catalyst Fund and Partnership Initiative
CMS says the abstract budgets are illustrative and are not award amounts, so none are shown.
Source: CMS Rural Health Transformation Program state project abstracts, as of December 2025. Publisher page
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About this data
County rates are CDC PLACES model-based estimates of adults, built from the CDC BRFSS survey and Census population data. State and US figures are BRFSS survey results for the same year. They are not averages of counties, and small differences may not be meaningful.
Shortage rows are HRSA designations with status Designated. Scores run from 0 to 25 (0 to 26 for dental); a higher score means greater need. Hospitals are acute care and critical access hospitals CMS lists in the county, with 30-day rates of unplanned readmission. Health centers are active HRSA-funded and look-alike sites.
Rural health plan initiatives are copied as the state wrote them. Nothing here is medical advice.
Source: CDC PLACES county data, as of December 4, 2025. Publisher page
Source: CDC BRFSS prevalence data, as of September 15, 2026. Publisher page
Source: HRSA Health Professional Shortage Areas, as of October 14, 2026. Publisher page