Loup County, Nebraska

Loup County, Nebraska
Loup County Courthouse in Taylor
Location in the U.S. state of Nebraska
Nebraska's location in the U.S.
Founded	1883
Seat	Taylor
Largest village	Taylor
Area
• Total	571 sq mi (1,479 km2)
• Land	568 sq mi (1,471 km2)
• Water	2.8 sq mi (7 km2), 0.13%
Population
• (2010)	632
• Density	1.1/sq mi (0/km²)
Congressional district	3rd
Time zone	Central: UTC-6/-5

Loup County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2010 census, the population was 632, making it Nebraska's fifth-least populous county and the tenth-least populous county in the United States. Its county seat is Taylor. The county was named after the Pawnee Loup Indians.

In the Nebraska license plate system, Loup County is represented by the prefix 88 (it had the eighty-eighth-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922).

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 571 square miles (1,480 km²), of which 568 square miles (1,470 km²) is land and 2.8 square miles (7.3 km²) (0.5%) is water.

As of the census of 2010, there were 632 people, 289 households, and 206 families residing in the county. The population density was 1 people per square mile (0/km²). There were 377 housing units at an average density of 1 per square mile (0/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 98.88% White, 0.28% Native American, 0.14% Asian, 0.42% from other races, and 0.28% from two or more races. 1.69% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 289 households out of which 31.80% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.70% were married couples living together, 4.20% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.40% were non-families. 27.00% of all households were made up of individuals and 17.00% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.46 and the average family size was 2.99.