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Sylvania town, Alabama: commercial real estate data.
Sylvania town is a Census town of 1,925 people across 8.52 square miles of land, in DeKalb County. Median household income is $56,161, 66.8 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Sylvania
What Sylvania is
- Census place typetown
- Land area8.52 sq mi
- Water area0.1 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land226 plus or minus 48
- County holding the largest share of its areaDeKalb County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sylvania
How many people live in Sylvania
- Population1,925 plus or minus 410
- Median age34.3
- Population under 18519 plus or minus 141
- Share under 1827.0 percent
- Population 65 and over244 plus or minus 67
- Share 65 and over12.7 percent
- Households693 plus or minus 162
- Family households525 plus or minus 140
- Share of households that are families75.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sylvania
Income and work in Sylvania
- Median household income$56,161
- Per capita income$25,649
- Civilian labor force896 plus or minus 226
- Employed848 plus or minus 219
- Unemployed48 plus or minus 34
- Unemployment rate5.4 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Adults 25 and over1,269 plus or minus 274
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher84.2 percent plus or minus 24.1
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher22.3 percent plus or minus 8.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree5.0 percent plus or minus 3.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sylvania
Housing in Sylvania
- Housing units784 plus or minus 176
- Occupied units693 plus or minus 162
- Vacant units91 plus or minus 49
- Vacancy rate11.6 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Owner occupied463 plus or minus 111
- Renter occupied230 plus or minus 110
- Ownership rate66.8 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$161,500 plus or minus $34,882
- Median gross rent, monthly$692
- Annual rent as a share of median income14.8 percent plus or minus 4.0
- Single family units553 plus or minus 150
- Share single family70.5 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more24 plus or minus 25
- Share in buildings of two or more3.1 percent plus or minus 3.1
- Mobile homes203 plus or minus 85
- Median year structure built1985
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sylvania
How Sylvania gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute815 plus or minus 212
- Commuting under 15 minutes152 plus or minus 59
- Share commuting under 15 minutes18.7 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Commuting 30 minutes or more167 plus or minus 58
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more20.5 percent plus or minus 4.7
- Drove alone87.6 percent
- Carpooled8.7 percent plus or minus 5.4
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.6 percent plus or minus 0.8
- Worked from home3.1 percent plus or minus 3.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
DeKalb County, not Sylvania
DeKalb County context, not Sylvania figures
These are DeKalb County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Sylvania measurements.
- Establishments in DeKalb County1,165
- Employment at those establishments, DeKalb County20,004
- Covered employment, DeKalb County23,367
- Average annual pay, DeKalb County$50,391
- Average weekly wage, DeKalb County$969
- Housing units permitted, DeKalb County39
- Of those, single family, DeKalb County39
- County product, 2024, DeKalb County$3,060,598,000
- County product change over the prior year, DeKalb County8.4 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, DeKalb County$50,627
Every figure in this section is published for DeKalb County as a whole and is not a measurement of Sylvania. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Sylvania questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Sylvania, Alabama?
1,925, in 693 households. Sylvania town covers 8.52 square miles of land, which is 226 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Sylvania in?
DeKalb County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Sylvania?
$56,161. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $161,500. Median gross rent is $692 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Sylvania figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for DeKalb County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Sylvania.
Is zoning published for Sylvania?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.