Guide Rock vs Inavale

A side-by-side comparison of Guide Rock and Inavale: population, income, housing, and more.

Guide Rock and Inavale are places in Nebraska. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Guide Rock has the higher population (295 vs 36 in Inavale). Inavale has the higher median household income ($59,028 vs $44,286 in Guide Rock). Since 2019, Guide Rock's population has grown faster (+44.6% vs -44.6%).

Population, income & housing

	Guide Rock	Inavale
Population	295	36
Median age	36.8 yrs	64.4 yrs
Median household income	$44,286	$59,028
Median home value	$47,200	—
Housing units	157	32
Homeownership rate	96.1%	100.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher	14.9%	2.8%
Unemployment rate	4.3%	0.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Guide Rock	Inavale
Population	204 → 295 (+44.6%)	65 → 36 (-44.6%)
Median household income	$46,250 → $44,286 (-4.2%)	$53,333 → $59,028 (+10.7%)
Median home value	$21,900 → $47,200 (+115.5%)	$52,800 → $56,000 (+6.1%)

Guide Rock

Population

204295

Median household income

$46,250$44,286

Median home value

$21,900$47,200

Inavale

Population

6536

Median household income

$53,333$59,028

Median home value

$52,800$56,000

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Guide Rock	Inavale
Under 5	0.7%	0.0%
5 to 17	24.7%	0.0%
18 to 24	6.1%	0.0%
25 to 34	5.1%	0.0%
35 to 44	22.7%	2.8%
45 to 54	13.9%	11.1%
55 to 64	9.5%	50.0%
65 to 74	9.8%	25.0%
75 and over	7.5%	11.1%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Guide Rock	Inavale
White (non-Hispanic)	67.5%	100.0%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	1.4%	0.0%
Hispanic or Latino	31.2%	0.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Guide Rock	Inavale
No high school diploma	18.3%	2.8%
High school graduate	23.3%	61.1%
Some college or associate's	43.6%	33.3%
Bachelor's degree	14.4%	2.8%
Graduate or professional degree	0.5%	0.0%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Guide Rock	Inavale
Drove alone	61.5%	95.7%
Carpooled	34.1%	4.3%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	0.0%	0.0%
Other means	4.4%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Guide Rock	Inavale
1-unit, detached	100.0%	100.0%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Guide Rock	Inavale
Poverty rate	18.3%	0.0%
Average household size	2.30	1.57
Mean commute (minutes)	35	—
Median year structure built	1938	1938