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Hercules city, California: commercial real estate data.
Hercules city is a Census city of 26,302 people across 6.41 square miles of land, in Contra Costa County. Median household income is $129,397, 79.2 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 12 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $2.4 m.
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Hercules
What Hercules is
- Census place typecity
- Land area6.41 sq mi
- Water area13.57 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land4,102
- County holding the largest share of its areaContra Costa 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.
Hercules
How many people live in Hercules
- Population26,302
- Median age43.9
- Population under 184,816
- Share under 1818.3 percent
- Population 65 and over5,291
- Share 65 and over20.1 percent
- Households9,355
- Family households6,884
- Share of households that are families73.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hercules
Income and work in Hercules
- Median household income$129,397
- Per capita income$55,501
- Civilian labor force14,181
- Employed13,267
- Unemployed914 plus or minus 237
- Unemployment rate6.4 percent plus or minus 1.6
- Adults 25 and over19,421
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher92.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher46.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree14.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hercules
Housing in Hercules
- Housing units9,581
- Occupied units9,355
- Vacant units226 plus or minus 131
- Vacancy rate2.4 percent plus or minus 1.4
- Owner occupied7,411
- Renter occupied1,944
- Ownership rate79.2 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$769,400
- Median gross rent, monthly$2,991
- Annual rent as a share of median income27.7 percent
- Single family units7,485
- Share single family78.1 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more2,050 plus or minus 426
- Share in buildings of two or more21.4 percent plus or minus 4.3
- Mobile homes26 plus or minus 29
- Median year structure built1988
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hercules
How Hercules gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute10,456
- Commuting under 15 minutes1,266 plus or minus 355
- Share commuting under 15 minutes12.1 percent plus or minus 3.3
- Commuting 30 minutes or more6,231
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more59.6 percent
- Drove alone62.9 percent
- Carpooled6.8 percent plus or minus 1.7
- Public transport9.1 percent plus or minus 3.4
- Walked0.4 percent plus or minus 0.3
- Worked from home19.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hercules
SBA loans in Hercules (7(a))
- Approvals12
- Gross approval$2,434,100
- Average approval$202,842
- Median approval$75,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$393,000
- Largest approval$1,311,000
- Jobs supported33
- Jobs per approval2.8
- Loans with a final outcome2
- Paid in full2
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more8.3 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders8
- Distinct industries by NAICS11
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 2 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.
Hercules
SBA loans in Hercules (504)
- Approvals5
- Gross approval$4,159,000
- Average approval$831,800
- Median approval$453,000
- Largest approval$2,262,000
- Jobs supported26
- Loans with a final outcome2
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Distinct CDCs5
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Hercules
Flood risk in Hercules
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number060434
- Currently effective map date03/21/17
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Contra Costa County, not Hercules
Contra Costa County context, not Hercules figures
These are Contra Costa County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Hercules measurements.
- Establishments in Contra Costa County25,932
- Employment at those establishments, Contra Costa County343,690
- Covered employment, Contra Costa County373,992
- Average annual pay, Contra Costa County$86,234
- Average weekly wage, Contra Costa County$1,658
- Housing units permitted, Contra Costa County2,155
- Of those, single family, Contra Costa County1,251
- County product, 2024, Contra Costa County$96,579,110,000
- County product change over the prior year, Contra Costa County1.5 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Contra Costa County$162,744
Every figure in this section is published for Contra Costa County as a whole and is not a measurement of Hercules. 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.
- 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
Hercules questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Hercules, California?
26,302, in 9,355 households. Hercules city covers 6.41 square miles of land, which is 4,102 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Hercules in?
Contra Costa 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 Hercules?
$129,397. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $769,400. Median gross rent is $2,991 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Hercules businesses?
12 7(a) approvals totalling $2.4 m, across 8 lenders, median approval $75,000, plus 5 504 approvals worth $4.2 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Hercules, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Hercules borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Hercules. only 2 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.
Is Hercules in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Hercules appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 060434, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Hercules figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Contra Costa 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 Hercules.
Is zoning published for Hercules?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.