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Menlo Park city, California: commercial real estate data.
Menlo Park city is a Census city of 32,727 people across 9.99 square miles of land, in San Mateo County. Median household income is $210,025, 54.2 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 31 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $19.0 m.
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Menlo Park
What Menlo Park is
- Census place typecity
- Land area9.99 sq mi
- Water area7.39 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land3,276
- County holding the largest share of its areaSan Mateo 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.
Menlo Park
How many people live in Menlo Park
- Population32,727
- Median age39.5
- Population under 186,859
- Share under 1821.0 percent
- Population 65 and over5,421
- Share 65 and over16.6 percent
- Households11,837
- Family households7,704
- Share of households that are families65.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Menlo Park
Income and work in Menlo Park
- Median household income$210,025
- Per capita income$128,814
- Civilian labor force17,510
- Employed16,674
- Unemployed836 plus or minus 195
- Unemployment rate4.8 percent plus or minus 1.1
- Adults 25 and over22,922
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher92.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher72.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree45.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Menlo Park
Housing in Menlo Park
- Housing units13,388
- Occupied units11,837
- Vacant units1,551
- Vacancy rate11.6 percent
- Owner occupied6,417
- Renter occupied5,420
- Ownership rate54.2 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$2,000,001
- Median gross rent, monthly$3,239
- Annual rent as a share of median income18.5 percent
- Single family units8,273
- Share single family61.8 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more5,065
- Share in buildings of two or more37.8 percent
- Mobile homes44 plus or minus 48
- Median year structure built1964
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Menlo Park
How Menlo Park gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute11,045
- Commuting under 15 minutes3,208
- Share commuting under 15 minutes29.0 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more3,499
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more31.7 percent
- Drove alone48.4 percent
- Carpooled6.0 percent plus or minus 1.4
- Public transport2.0 percent plus or minus 0.9
- Walked1.7 percent plus or minus 1.0
- Worked from home32.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Menlo Park
SBA loans in Menlo Park (7(a))
- Approvals31
- Gross approval$18,999,200
- Average approval$612,877
- Median approval$350,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,500,000
- Largest approval$3,760,500
- Jobs supported239
- Jobs per approval7.7
- Loans with a final outcome5
- Paid in full4
- Charged off1
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more16.1 percent
- Share to franchises6.5 percent
- Distinct lenders20
- Distinct industries by NAICS27
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 5 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.
Menlo Park
SBA loans in Menlo Park (504)
- Approvals19
- Gross approval$31,669,000
- Average approval$1,666,789
- Median approval$1,139,000
- Largest approval$5,500,000
- Jobs supported243
- Loans with a final outcome4
- 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.
Menlo Park
Flood risk in Menlo Park
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- Best Community Rating System classClass 8
- NFIP community number060321
- Currently effective map date04/05/19
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
San Mateo County, not Menlo Park
San Mateo County context, not Menlo Park figures
These are San Mateo County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Menlo Park measurements.
- Establishments in San Mateo County21,569
- Employment at those establishments, San Mateo County477,938
- Covered employment, San Mateo County416,422
- Average annual pay, San Mateo County$196,441
- Average weekly wage, San Mateo County$3,778
- Housing units permitted, San Mateo County1,088
- Of those, single family, San Mateo County521
- County product, 2024, San Mateo County$217,017,754,000
- County product change over the prior year, San Mateo County11.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, San Mateo County$211,636
Every figure in this section is published for San Mateo County as a whole and is not a measurement of Menlo Park. 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
Menlo Park questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Menlo Park, California?
32,727, in 11,837 households. Menlo Park city covers 9.99 square miles of land, which is 3,276 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Menlo Park in?
San Mateo 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 Menlo Park?
$210,025. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $2,000,001. Median gross rent is $3,239 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Menlo Park businesses?
31 7(a) approvals totalling $19.0 m, across 20 lenders, median approval $350,000, plus 19 504 approvals worth $31.7 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Menlo Park, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Menlo Park borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Menlo Park. only 5 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 Menlo Park in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Menlo Park appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 060321, carrying Community Rating System class 8, which is a premium discount for exceeding the programme minimum. 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 Menlo Park figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for San Mateo 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 Menlo Park.
Is zoning published for Menlo Park?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.