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Garden Grove city, California: commercial real estate data.
Garden Grove city is a Census city of 170,964 people across 17.95 square miles of land, in Orange County. Median household income is $92,174, 53.1 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 205 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $128.9 m.
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Garden Grove
What Garden Grove is
- Census place typecity
- Land area17.95 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land9,523
- County holding the largest share of its areaOrange 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.
Garden Grove
How many people live in Garden Grove
- Population170,964
- Median age40.2
- Population under 1835,696
- Share under 1820.9 percent
- Population 65 and over26,708
- Share 65 and over15.6 percent
- Households49,122
- Family households38,097
- Share of households that are families77.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Garden Grove
Income and work in Garden Grove
- Median household income$92,174
- Per capita income$33,568
- Civilian labor force88,921
- Employed83,617
- Unemployed5,304
- Unemployment rate6.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over119,647
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher74.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher25.3 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree6.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Garden Grove
Housing in Garden Grove
- Housing units50,960
- Occupied units49,122
- Vacant units1,838
- Vacancy rate3.6 percent
- Owner occupied26,073
- Renter occupied23,049
- Ownership rate53.1 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$814,100
- Median gross rent, monthly$2,012
- Annual rent as a share of median income26.2 percent
- Single family units31,930
- Share single family62.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more17,260
- Share in buildings of two or more33.9 percent
- Mobile homes1,747
- Median year structure built1965
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Garden Grove
How Garden Grove gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute72,570
- Commuting under 15 minutes10,650
- Share commuting under 15 minutes14.7 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more34,132
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more47.0 percent
- Drove alone72.6 percent
- Carpooled12.0 percent
- Public transport1.1 percent plus or minus 0.3
- Walked1.0 percent plus or minus 0.3
- Worked from home11.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Garden Grove
SBA 7(a) lending to Garden Grove borrowers
- Approvals205
- Gross approval$128,882,800
- Average approval$628,697
- Median approval$250,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,970,000
- Largest approval$5,000,000
- Jobs supported1,804
- Jobs per approval8.8
- Loans with a final outcome40
- Paid in full39
- Charged off1
- Charge-off rate over resolved loans2.5 percent
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more21.5 percent
- Share to franchises3.9 percent
- Distinct lenders57
- Distinct industries by NAICS109
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Garden Grove
SBA 504 lending to Garden Grove borrowers
- Approvals128
- Gross approval$142,327,000
- Average approval$1,111,930
- Median approval$809,000
- Largest approval$5,474,000
- Jobs supported1,406
- Loans with a final outcome47
- Charged off0
- Charge-off rate over resolved loans0.0 percent
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs9
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Garden Grove
Flood programme status in Garden Grove
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number060220
- Currently effective map date12/03/09(M)
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.
Orange County, not Garden Grove
Orange County context, not Garden Grove figures
These are Orange County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Garden Grove measurements.
- Establishments in Orange County106,961
- Employment at those establishments, Orange County1,580,778
- Covered employment, Orange County1,661,276
- Average annual pay, Orange County$81,403
- Average weekly wage, Orange County$1,565
- Housing units permitted, Orange County6,972
- Of those, single family, Orange County2,671
- County product, 2024, Orange County$351,752,654,000
- County product change over the prior year, Orange County5.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Orange County$114,759
Every figure in this section is published for Orange County as a whole and is not a measurement of Garden Grove. 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
Garden Grove questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Garden Grove, California?
170,964, in 49,122 households. Garden Grove city covers 17.95 square miles of land, which is 9,523 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Garden Grove in?
Orange 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 Garden Grove?
$92,174. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $814,100. Median gross rent is $2,012 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Garden Grove businesses?
205 7(a) approvals totalling $128.9 m, across 57 lenders, median approval $250,000, plus 128 504 approvals worth $142.3 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Garden Grove, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Garden Grove borrowers get paid back?
Of the 40 loans that have reached a final outcome, 39 were paid in full and 1 charged off, a charge off rate of 2.5 percent. Loans still running are excluded because they have not yet succeeded or failed.
Is Garden Grove in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Garden Grove appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 060220, 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 Garden Grove figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Orange 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 Garden Grove.
Is zoning published for Garden Grove?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.