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Wickes town, Arkansas: commercial real estate data.
Wickes town is a Census town of 694 people across 2.32 square miles of land, in Polk County. Median household income is $27,411, 67.5 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.0 m.
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Wickes
What Wickes is
- Census place typetown
- Land area2.32 sq mi
- Water area0.02 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land299 plus or minus 95
- County holding the largest share of its areaPolk 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.
Wickes
How many people live in Wickes
- Population694 plus or minus 221
- Median age29.5 plus or minus 12.0
- Population under 18227 plus or minus 85
- Share under 1832.7 percent
- Population 65 and over114 plus or minus 58
- Share 65 and over16.4 percent plus or minus 6.6
- Households249 plus or minus 84
- Family households118 plus or minus 47
- Share of households that are families47.4 percent plus or minus 10.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wickes
Income and work in Wickes
- Median household income$27,411
- Per capita income$18,626 plus or minus $5,225
- Civilian labor force246 plus or minus 99
- Employed219 plus or minus 88
- Unemployed27 plus or minus 27
- Unemployment rate11.0 percent plus or minus 10.0
- Adults 25 and over385 plus or minus 115
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher63.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher11.9 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.6 percent plus or minus 5.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wickes
Housing in Wickes
- Housing units288 plus or minus 82
- Occupied units249 plus or minus 84
- Vacant units39 plus or minus 24
- Vacancy rate13.5 percent plus or minus 7.4
- Owner occupied168 plus or minus 66
- Renter occupied81 plus or minus 50
- Ownership rate67.5 percent plus or minus 13.6
- Median owner-occupied home value$45,000 plus or minus $37,292
- Median gross rent, monthly$625
- Annual rent as a share of median income27.4 percent
- Single family units160 plus or minus 63
- Share single family55.6 percent plus or minus 15.2
- Units in buildings of two or more20 plus or minus 20
- Share in buildings of two or more6.9 percent plus or minus 6.7
- Mobile homes108 plus or minus 51
- Median year structure built1977
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wickes
How Wickes gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute217 plus or minus 88
- Commuting under 15 minutes101 plus or minus 45
- Share commuting under 15 minutes46.5 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more82 plus or minus 61
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more37.8 percent plus or minus 23.3
- Drove alone66.7 percent
- Carpooled26.9 percent plus or minus 18.5
- Public transport1.8 percent plus or minus 2.6
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.9 percent plus or minus 1.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wickes
SBA loans in Wickes (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$1,015,000
- Average approval$1,015,000
- Median approval$1,015,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,015,000
- Largest approval$1,015,000
- Jobs supported8
- Jobs per approval8.0
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term60 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 1 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.
Polk County, not Wickes
Polk County context, not Wickes figures
These are Polk County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Wickes measurements.
- Establishments in Polk County429
- Employment at those establishments, Polk County4,995
- Covered employment, Polk County5,837
- Average annual pay, Polk County$42,869
- Average weekly wage, Polk County$824
- Housing units permitted, Polk County4
- Of those, single family, Polk County4
- County product, 2024, Polk County$860,204,000
- County product change over the prior year, Polk County12.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Polk County$51,060
Every figure in this section is published for Polk County as a whole and is not a measurement of Wickes. 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
Wickes questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Wickes, Arkansas?
694, in 249 households. Wickes town covers 2.32 square miles of land, which is 299 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Wickes in?
Polk 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 Wickes?
$27,411. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $45,000. Median gross rent is $625 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Wickes businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $1.0 m, across 1 lenders, median approval $1,015,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Wickes, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Wickes borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Wickes. only 1 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 Wickes figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Polk 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 Wickes.
Is zoning published for Wickes?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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