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Boys Town, Nebraska

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The village of Boys Town<1> is located in Douglas County.

Boys Town is 360 feet [109.73 m] above sea level.<2>

Time Zone: Boys Town lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time.

We searched for American and Canadian communities that also have the name of Boys Town, but it seems to be unique to this community.

At the time of the 2000 Census, Boys Town had a population of 818 people<3> (or 0.18% of the total population of Douglas County). The population of Boys Town represented 0.05% of the total of Nebraska.

From the Census Estimates for 2008, Boys Town had a population of 977 people. This is an increase of 19.44% since the 2000 Census.

The following table shows the recent changes in population. For the years after 2000, the population counts are estimated. More information can be found on the Census Page for Boys Town.

YearPopulationChange
Since 2000
Year-to-Year Change
2008977+19.44%-0.31% since 2007
2007980+19.8%+4.81% since 2006
2006935+14.3%+4.94% since 2005
2005891+8.92% 
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2000818The Last Census

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

 Community DirectionDistance<4>2008
Population
Change
Since 2000
 Carter Lake (IA)   E11 mi [17.7 km]3,2680.62% increase
 Council Bluffs (IA)   E14 mi [22.53 km]59,5362.18% increase
 Bellevue   SE12 mi [19.31 km]49,69911.98% increase
 Blair   N19 mi [30.58 km]7,7893.69% increase
 Elkhorn   W6 mi [9.66 km]---
 Gretna   SW9 mi [14.48 km]6,572179.07% increase

To learn more about neighboring communities and counties, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Boys Town.




Search for Local Businesses

Google's 'Search-by-Location' has proven to be a useful tool by people who planned visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Boys Town. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

Lodging     Gas Stations     Banks              
Bed & Breakfast     Truck Stops     Real Estate    
Campgrounds      Rentals    
Restaurants     Auto Repair      
 RV Repair     Churches    
Food/Groceries        
Pharmacy     Auto Parts     Libraries    
  RV Parts     Schools    
Attractions     Motorcycle Parts     Government Offices    
     
Fishing/Hunting     Hospitals      
Hiking/Camping     Doctors      
  Dentists      
Other...     Veterinarians      

If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).



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Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Boys Town? Please visit the Map Page for Boys Town.


Footnotes

<1>Keep in mind that you might find some variations to Boys Town:

It's frequently the practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names. So Boys Town may originally have been Boy's Town. Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether. In that case, you may find that a reference to Boy Town is actually referring to Boys Town.

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<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Boys Town - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others.

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<3>Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Boys Town.

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<4>Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Boys Town and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance.

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<5>All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint.

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