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Arvin city, California: commercial real estate data.
Arvin city is a Census city of 19,539 people across 4.82 square miles of land, in Kern County. Median household income is $49,183, 54.4 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 4 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $2.9 m.
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Arvin
What Arvin is
- Census place typecity
- Land area4.82 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land4,054
- County holding the largest share of its areaKern 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.
Arvin
How many people live in Arvin
- Population19,539
- Median age25.0
- Population under 187,100
- Share under 1836.3 percent
- Population 65 and over1,005 plus or minus 202
- Share 65 and over5.1 percent plus or minus 1.0
- Households4,683
- Family households4,095
- Share of households that are families87.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Arvin
Income and work in Arvin
- Median household income$49,183
- Per capita income$15,612
- Civilian labor force8,186
- Employed7,037
- Unemployed1,149 plus or minus 286
- Unemployment rate14.0 percent plus or minus 3.3
- Adults 25 and over9,780
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher47.3 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher5.0 percent plus or minus 1.7
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree1.4 percent plus or minus 0.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Arvin
Housing in Arvin
- Housing units4,896
- Occupied units4,683
- Vacant units213 plus or minus 115
- Vacancy rate4.4 percent plus or minus 2.3
- Owner occupied2,548
- Renter occupied2,135
- Ownership rate54.4 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$262,700
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,122
- Annual rent as a share of median income27.4 percent
- Single family units3,595
- Share single family73.4 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more1,010 plus or minus 211
- Share in buildings of two or more20.6 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Mobile homes279 plus or minus 95
- Median year structure built1993
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Arvin
How Arvin gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute6,736
- Commuting under 15 minutes1,468
- Share commuting under 15 minutes21.8 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more2,247
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more33.4 percent
- Drove alone75.0 percent
- Carpooled21.5 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Public transport1.0 percent plus or minus 1.0
- Walked0.5 percent plus or minus 0.8
- Worked from home1.8 percent plus or minus 1.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Arvin
SBA 7(a) lending to Arvin borrowers
- Approvals4
- Gross approval$2,926,100
- Average approval$731,525
- Median approval$832,500
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,433,600
- Largest approval$1,433,600
- Jobs supported26
- Jobs per approval6.5
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more50.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders4
- Distinct industries by NAICS4
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.
Arvin
SBA 504 lending to Arvin borrowers
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$1,268,000
- Average approval$634,000
- Median approval$1,030,000
- Largest approval$1,030,000
- Jobs supported19
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Distinct CDCs2
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Arvin
Flood programme status in Arvin
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number060076
- Currently effective map date09/26/08
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.
Kern County, not Arvin
Kern County context, not Arvin figures
These are Kern County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Arvin measurements.
- Establishments in Kern County14,352
- Employment at those establishments, Kern County219,016
- Covered employment, Kern County347,664
- Average annual pay, Kern County$60,066
- Average weekly wage, Kern County$1,155
- Housing units permitted, Kern County3,244
- Of those, single family, Kern County2,812
- County product, 2024, Kern County$63,069,657,000
- County product change over the prior year, Kern County4.8 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Kern County$54,556
Every figure in this section is published for Kern County as a whole and is not a measurement of Arvin. 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
Arvin questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Arvin, California?
19,539, in 4,683 households. Arvin city covers 4.82 square miles of land, which is 4,054 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Arvin in?
Kern 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 Arvin?
$49,183. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $262,700. Median gross rent is $1,122 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Arvin businesses?
4 7(a) approvals totalling $2.9 m, across 4 lenders, median approval $832,500, plus 2 504 approvals worth $1.3 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Arvin, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Arvin borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Arvin. 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.
Is Arvin in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Arvin appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 060076, 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 Arvin figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Kern 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 Arvin.
Is zoning published for Arvin?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.