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Bull Shoals city, Arkansas: commercial real estate data.
Bull Shoals city is a Census city of 1,678 people across 4.90 square miles of land, in Marion County. Median household income is $41,976, 70.2 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 2 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.1 m.
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Bull Shoals
What Bull Shoals is
- Census place typecity
- Land area4.9 sq mi
- Water area0.07 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land342
- County holding the largest share of its areaMarion 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.
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How many people live in Bull Shoals
- Population1,678
- Median age50.2
- Population under 18235 plus or minus 85
- Share under 1814.0 percent plus or minus 4.4
- Population 65 and over535
- Share 65 and over31.9 percent
- Households845
- Family households409 plus or minus 97
- Share of households that are families48.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Bull Shoals
- Median household income$41,976 plus or minus $11,036
- Per capita income$33,741 plus or minus $8,648
- Civilian labor force645 plus or minus 142
- Employed562 plus or minus 132
- Unemployed83 plus or minus 47
- Unemployment rate12.9 percent plus or minus 6.7
- Adults 25 and over1,370
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher86.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher17.2 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree6.0 percent plus or minus 3.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Bull Shoals
- Housing units1,202
- Occupied units845
- Vacant units357 plus or minus 112
- Vacancy rate29.7 percent plus or minus 8.5
- Owner occupied593
- Renter occupied252 plus or minus 86
- Ownership rate70.2 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$158,100 plus or minus $41,026
- Median gross rent, monthly$715 plus or minus $243
- Annual rent as a share of median income20.4 percent plus or minus 8.8
- Single family units845
- Share single family70.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more136 plus or minus 69
- Share in buildings of two or more11.3 percent plus or minus 5.5
- Mobile homes208 plus or minus 98
- Median year structure built1986
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Bull Shoals gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute504 plus or minus 124
- Commuting under 15 minutes46 plus or minus 39
- Share commuting under 15 minutes9.1 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Commuting 30 minutes or more178 plus or minus 78
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more35.3 percent plus or minus 12.9
- Drove alone72.1 percent
- Carpooled15.4 percent plus or minus 7.0
- Public transport3.3 percent plus or minus 5.5
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home7.4 percent plus or minus 5.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bull Shoals
SBA loans in Bull Shoals (7(a))
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$1,059,700
- Average approval$529,850
- Median approval$1,009,700
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,009,700
- Largest approval$1,009,700
- Jobs supported52
- Jobs per approval26.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term253 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more50.0 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.
Marion County, not Bull Shoals
Marion County context, not Bull Shoals figures
These are Marion County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Bull Shoals measurements.
- Establishments in Marion County246
- Employment at those establishments, Marion County2,761
- Covered employment, Marion County3,239
- Average annual pay, Marion County$41,231
- Average weekly wage, Marion County$793
- Housing units permitted, Marion County240
- Of those, single family, Marion County240
- County product, 2024, Marion County$773,625,000
- County product change over the prior year, Marion County5.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Marion County$55,464
Every figure in this section is published for Marion County as a whole and is not a measurement of Bull Shoals. 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.
- 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
Bull Shoals questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Bull Shoals, Arkansas?
1,678, in 845 households. Bull Shoals city covers 4.90 square miles of land, which is 342 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Bull Shoals in?
Marion 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 Bull Shoals?
$41,976. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $158,100. Median gross rent is $715 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Bull Shoals businesses?
2 7(a) approvals totalling $1.1 m, across 1 lenders, median approval $1,009,700. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Bull Shoals, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Bull Shoals borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Bull Shoals. 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 Bull Shoals figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Marion 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 Bull Shoals.
Is zoning published for Bull Shoals?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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