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Shorter town, Alabama: commercial real estate data.
Shorter town is a Census town of 404 people across 4.54 square miles of land, in Macon County. Median household income is $48,125, 83.2 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $2.5 m.
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Shorter
What Shorter is
- Census place typetown
- Land area4.54 sq mi
- Water area0.03 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land89 plus or minus 26
- County holding the largest share of its areaMacon 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.
Shorter
How many people live in Shorter
- Population404 plus or minus 118
- Median age60.6
- Population under 1865 plus or minus 31
- Share under 1816.1 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Population 65 and over152 plus or minus 51
- Share 65 and over37.6 percent
- Households179 plus or minus 50
- Family households127 plus or minus 37
- Share of households that are families70.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Shorter
Income and work in Shorter
- Median household income$48,125 plus or minus $24,882
- Per capita income$25,712 plus or minus $7,523
- Civilian labor force143 plus or minus 56
- Employed141 plus or minus 56
- Unemployed2 plus or minus 3
- Unemployment rate1.4 percent plus or minus 2.0
- Adults 25 and over318 plus or minus 83
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher78.3 percent plus or minus 27.4
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher14.8 percent plus or minus 6.4
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree7.2 percent plus or minus 5.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Shorter
- Housing units197 plus or minus 51
- Occupied units179 plus or minus 50
- Vacant units18 plus or minus 15
- Vacancy rate9.1 percent plus or minus 7.2
- Owner occupied149 plus or minus 43
- Renter occupied30 plus or minus 22
- Ownership rate83.2 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$98,600 plus or minus $96,170
- Single family units170 plus or minus 47
- Share single family86.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more2 plus or minus 14
- Share in buildings of two or more1.0 percent plus or minus 6.9
- Mobile homes25 plus or minus 18
- Median year structure built1987
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Shorter gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute135 plus or minus 56
- Commuting under 15 minutes32 plus or minus 23
- Share commuting under 15 minutes23.7 percent plus or minus 14.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more41 plus or minus 24
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more30.4 percent plus or minus 12.6
- Drove alone83.7 percent
- Carpooled12.1 percent plus or minus 13.4
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home4.3 percent plus or minus 3.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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SBA 7(a) lending to Shorter borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$2,470,000
- Average approval$2,470,000
- Median approval$2,470,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$2,470,000
- Largest approval$2,470,000
- Jobs supported20
- Jobs per approval20.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more100.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Macon County, not Shorter
Macon County context, not Shorter figures
These are Macon County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Shorter measurements.
- Establishments in Macon County196
- Employment at those establishments, Macon County4,658
- Covered employment, Macon County4,827
- Average annual pay, Macon County$56,933
- Average weekly wage, Macon County$1,095
- Housing units permitted, Macon County6
- Of those, single family, Macon County6
- County product, 2024, Macon County$764,900,000
- County product change over the prior year, Macon County7.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Macon County$42,268
Every figure in this section is published for Macon County as a whole and is not a measurement of Shorter. 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.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- 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
Shorter questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Shorter, Alabama?
404, in 179 households. Shorter town covers 4.54 square miles of land, which is 89 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Shorter in?
Macon 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 Shorter?
$48,125. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $98,600. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Shorter businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $2.5 m, across 1 lenders, median approval $2,470,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Shorter, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Shorter borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Shorter. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Shorter figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Macon 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 Shorter.
Is zoning published for Shorter?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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