page_title: Bancroft, Nebraska
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: Bancroft, Nebraska / Economy
caption_attribution_description: English: Downtown Bancroft, Nebraska: Main Street, looking north from about Elm Street.
context_page_description: Bancroft is a village in Cuming County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 495 at the 2010 census.
  John Neihardt, who later became Nebraska's poet laureate, lived in Bancroft for twenty years and wrote many of his works there. His study is preserved at the John G. Neihardt State Historic Site in the village.
context_section_description: The two leading employers in Bancroft are governmental: the Village of Bancroft, and Bancroft Public Schools.  The larger private employers include Renz Electric, a plumbing, heating, and electric contracting firm with 15 employees; and Triple C Products, a manufacturer of agricultural implements with 12 employees.
  Tourism is an important facet of Bancroft's economy; the Neihardt Center draws visitors from all over the country.  Annual events at the Center include a scholarly conference the last Saturday in April and an outdoor Neihardt Day festival held the first Sunday in August.
caption: Main Street in Bancroft
exif: {"Image Make": "Panasonic", "Image Model": "DMC-FZ20", "Image Software": "Ver1.0", "Image DateTime": "2010:10:28 10:08:08", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image ExifOffset": "354", "Image PrintIM": "[80, 114, 105, 110, 116, 73, 77, 0, 48, 50, 53, 48, 0, 0, 14, 0, 1, 0, 22, 0, ... ]", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/500", "EXIF FNumber": "26/5", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Program Normal", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "80", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0220", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2010:10:28 10:08:08", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2010:10:28 10:08:08", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF CompressedBitsPerPixel": "4", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "3", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF LightSource": "Unknown", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "6", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "2560", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "1920", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF SceneType": "Directly Photographed", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF DigitalZoomRatio": "0", "EXIF FocalLengthIn35mmFilm": "36", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF GainControl": "None", "EXIF Contrast": "Normal", "EXIF Saturation": "Normal", "EXIF Sharpness": "Normal"}