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Shirley town, Arkansas: commercial real estate data.
Shirley town is a Census town of 269 people across 2.41 square miles of land, in Van Buren County. Median household income is $37,344, 86.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $18,000.
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Shirley
What Shirley is
- Census place typetown
- Land area2.41 sq mi
- Water area0.06 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land112 plus or minus 36
- County holding the largest share of its areaVan Buren 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.
Shirley
How many people live in Shirley
- Population269 plus or minus 87
- Median age48.8 plus or minus 11.5
- Population under 1840 plus or minus 33
- Share under 1814.9 percent plus or minus 11.3
- Population 65 and over55 plus or minus 26
- Share 65 and over20.4 percent plus or minus 6.9
- Households119 plus or minus 33
- Family households87 plus or minus 28
- Share of households that are families73.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Shirley
Income and work in Shirley
- Median household income$37,344 plus or minus $23,781
- Per capita income$26,151 plus or minus $5,895
- Civilian labor force110 plus or minus 38
- Employed109 plus or minus 38
- Unemployed1 plus or minus 3
- Unemployment rate0.9 percent plus or minus 2.7
- Adults 25 and over198 plus or minus 53
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher90.9 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher21.2 percent plus or minus 11.1
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree7.6 percent plus or minus 8.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Shirley
Housing in Shirley
- Housing units153 plus or minus 38
- Occupied units119 plus or minus 33
- Vacant units34 plus or minus 21
- Vacancy rate22.2 percent plus or minus 12.6
- Owner occupied103 plus or minus 32
- Renter occupied16 plus or minus 13
- Ownership rate86.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$103,100 plus or minus $28,994
- Single family units128 plus or minus 35
- Share single family83.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes25 plus or minus 18
- Median year structure built1967
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Shirley
How Shirley gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute101 plus or minus 37
- Commuting under 15 minutes39 plus or minus 24
- Share commuting under 15 minutes38.6 percent plus or minus 18.9
- Commuting 30 minutes or more42 plus or minus 27
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more41.6 percent plus or minus 22.4
- Drove alone85.6 percent
- Carpooled4.8 percent plus or minus 4.5
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked6.7 percent plus or minus 8.3
- Worked from home2.9 percent plus or minus 3.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Shirley
SBA 7(a) lending to Shirley borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$18,000
- Average approval$18,000
- Median approval$18,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$18,000
- Largest approval$18,000
- Jobs supported0
- Jobs per approval0.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term36 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 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.
Van Buren County, not Shirley
Van Buren County context, not Shirley figures
These are Van Buren County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Shirley measurements.
- Establishments in Van Buren County319
- Employment at those establishments, Van Buren County3,279
- Covered employment, Van Buren County3,804
- Average annual pay, Van Buren County$43,889
- Average weekly wage, Van Buren County$844
- Housing units permitted, Van Buren County16
- Of those, single family, Van Buren County16
- County product, 2024, Van Buren County$483,785,000
- County product change over the prior year, Van Buren County1.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Van Buren County$59,904
Every figure in this section is published for Van Buren County as a whole and is not a measurement of Shirley. 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
Shirley questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Shirley, Arkansas?
269, in 119 households. Shirley town covers 2.41 square miles of land, which is 112 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Shirley in?
Van Buren 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 Shirley?
$37,344. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $103,100. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Shirley businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $18,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $18,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Shirley, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Shirley borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Shirley. 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 Shirley figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Van Buren 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 Shirley.
Is zoning published for Shirley?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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