Guide Rock vs Red Cloud

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

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

Red Cloud has the higher population (991 vs 295 in Guide Rock). Red Cloud has the higher median household income ($50,536 vs $44,286 in Guide Rock). Red Cloud has the higher median home value ($64,800 vs $47,200 in Guide Rock).

Population, income & housing

	Guide Rock	Red Cloud
Population	295	991
Median age	36.8 yrs	45.8 yrs
Median household income	$44,286	$50,536
Median home value	$47,200	$64,800
Median gross rent	—	$549
Housing units	157	540
Homeownership rate	96.1%	71.8%
Bachelor's degree or higher	14.9%	15.4%
Unemployment rate	4.3%	0.6%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Guide Rock	Red Cloud
Population	204 → 295 (+44.6%)	1,095 → 991 (-9.5%)
Median household income	$46,250 → $44,286 (-4.2%)	$36,989 → $50,536 (+36.6%)
Median home value	$21,900 → $47,200 (+115.5%)	$51,200 → $64,800 (+26.6%)
Median gross rent	—	$344 → $549 (+59.6%)

Guide Rock

Population

204295

Median household income

$46,250$44,286

Median home value

$21,900$47,200

Red Cloud

Population

1,095991

Median household income

$36,989$50,536

Median home value

$51,200$64,800

Median gross rent

$344$549

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Guide Rock	Red Cloud
Under 5	0.7%	4.9%
5 to 17	24.7%	15.5%
18 to 24	6.1%	6.0%
25 to 34	5.1%	12.6%
35 to 44	22.7%	9.3%
45 to 54	13.9%	13.5%
55 to 64	9.5%	15.1%
65 to 74	9.8%	13.4%
75 and over	7.5%	9.6%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Guide Rock	Red Cloud
White (non-Hispanic)	67.5%	87.6%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.1%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	1.8%
Asian	0.0%	0.4%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.2%
Two or more races	1.4%	4.9%
Hispanic or Latino	31.2%	4.9%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Guide Rock	Red Cloud
No high school diploma	18.3%	6.4%
High school graduate	23.3%	38.8%
Some college or associate's	43.6%	39.4%
Bachelor's degree	14.4%	8.1%
Graduate or professional degree	0.5%	7.3%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Guide Rock	Red Cloud
Drove alone	61.5%	78.7%
Carpooled	34.1%	8.0%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	6.2%
Bicycle	0.0%	1.5%
Worked from home	0.0%	2.8%
Other means	4.4%	2.8%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Guide Rock	Red Cloud
1-unit, detached	100.0%	85.7%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	3.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	6.7%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	1.9%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	2.8%

Poverty & households

	Guide Rock	Red Cloud
Poverty rate	18.3%	12.8%
Average household size	2.30	2.16
Mean commute (minutes)	35	14
Median year structure built	1938	1938