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Dos Palos city, California: commercial real estate data.
Dos Palos city is a Census city of 5,765 people across 1.35 square miles of land, in Merced County. Median household income is $42,367, 60.2 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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Dos Palos
What Dos Palos is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.35 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land4,273
- County holding the largest share of its areaMerced 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.
Dos Palos
How many people live in Dos Palos
- Population5,765
- Median age37.0
- Population under 181,390 plus or minus 403
- Share under 1824.1 percent plus or minus 7.0
- Population 65 and over1,257 plus or minus 421
- Share 65 and over21.8 percent plus or minus 7.3
- Households2,099
- Family households1,295
- Share of households that are families61.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dos Palos
Income and work in Dos Palos
- Median household income$42,367 plus or minus $17,018
- Per capita income$22,715 plus or minus $4,636
- Civilian labor force2,221
- Employed2,013
- Unemployed208 plus or minus 125
- Unemployment rate9.4 percent plus or minus 5.4
- Adults 25 and over3,907
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher72.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher11.3 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree1.9 percent plus or minus 1.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dos Palos
Housing in Dos Palos
- Housing units2,121
- Occupied units2,099
- Vacant units22 plus or minus 35
- Vacancy rate1.0 percent plus or minus 1.6
- Owner occupied1,264 plus or minus 350
- Renter occupied835 plus or minus 213
- Ownership rate60.2 percent plus or minus 14.4
- Median owner-occupied home value$299,500
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,125 plus or minus $440
- Annual rent as a share of median income31.9 percent plus or minus 17.9
- Single family units1,785
- Share single family84.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more336 plus or minus 201
- Share in buildings of two or more15.8 percent plus or minus 9.2
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1976
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dos Palos
How Dos Palos gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,806
- Commuting under 15 minutes539 plus or minus 214
- Share commuting under 15 minutes29.8 percent plus or minus 10.4
- Commuting 30 minutes or more757 plus or minus 254
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more41.9 percent plus or minus 11.6
- Drove alone81.4 percent
- Carpooled4.8 percent plus or minus 3.9
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked6.5 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Worked from home7.3 percent plus or minus 5.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dos Palos
SBA 7(a) lending to Dos Palos borrowers
- Approvals4
- Gross approval$2,930,000
- Average approval$732,500
- Median approval$430,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$2,200,000
- Largest approval$2,200,000
- Jobs supported75
- Jobs per approval18.8
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders3
- Distinct industries by NAICS3
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.
Dos Palos
Flood programme status in Dos Palos
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number060443
- Currently effective map date(NSFHA)
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.
Merced County, not Dos Palos
Merced County context, not Dos Palos figures
These are Merced County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Dos Palos measurements.
- Establishments in Merced County3,592
- Employment at those establishments, Merced County49,545
- Covered employment, Merced County84,952
- Average annual pay, Merced County$54,952
- Average weekly wage, Merced County$1,057
- Housing units permitted, Merced County520
- Of those, single family, Merced County517
- County product, 2024, Merced County$13,282,268,000
- County product change over the prior year, Merced County9.2 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Merced County$53,930
Every figure in this section is published for Merced County as a whole and is not a measurement of Dos Palos. 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
Dos Palos questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Dos Palos, California?
5,765, in 2,099 households. Dos Palos city covers 1.35 square miles of land, which is 4,273 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Dos Palos in?
Merced 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 Dos Palos?
$42,367. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $299,500. Median gross rent is $1,125 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Dos Palos businesses?
4 7(a) approvals totalling $2.9 m, across 3 lenders, median approval $430,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Dos Palos, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Dos Palos borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Dos Palos. 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.
Is Dos Palos in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Dos Palos appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 060443, 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 Dos Palos figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Merced 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 Dos Palos.
Is zoning published for Dos Palos?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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