Seward is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in Seward enrolled in college, Seward has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students.
One of the benefits of Seward is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 19.22 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Being a small city, Seward does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Seward is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 34.14% of adults in Seward have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Seward in 2022 was $31,348, which is lower middle income relative to Nebraska, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $125,392 for a family of four. However, Seward contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Seward home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Seward residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Seward include German, Irish, Czech, English, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Seward is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
