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Benicia city, California: commercial real estate data.
Benicia city is a Census city of 26,749 people across 12.81 square miles of land, in Solano County. Median household income is $121,204, 69.5 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 36 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $23.3 m.
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Benicia
What Benicia is
- Census place typecity
- Land area12.81 sq mi
- Water area1.31 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land2,088
- County holding the largest share of its areaSolano 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.
Benicia
How many people live in Benicia
- Population26,749
- Median age44.9
- Population under 185,495
- Share under 1820.5 percent
- Population 65 and over6,344
- Share 65 and over23.7 percent
- Households11,051
- Family households6,961
- Share of households that are families63.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Benicia
Income and work in Benicia
- Median household income$121,204
- Per capita income$63,686
- Civilian labor force13,289
- Employed12,687
- Unemployed602 plus or minus 208
- Unemployment rate4.5 percent plus or minus 1.6
- Adults 25 and over19,752
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher95.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher47.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree15.2 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Benicia
- Housing units11,571
- Occupied units11,051
- Vacant units520 plus or minus 203
- Vacancy rate4.5 percent plus or minus 1.7
- Owner occupied7,679
- Renter occupied3,372
- Ownership rate69.5 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$810,000
- Median gross rent, monthly$2,280
- Annual rent as a share of median income22.6 percent
- Single family units8,458
- Share single family73.1 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more2,534
- Share in buildings of two or more21.9 percent
- Mobile homes579 plus or minus 288
- Median year structure built1981
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Benicia
How Benicia gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute9,588
- Commuting under 15 minutes2,801
- Share commuting under 15 minutes29.2 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more3,886
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more40.5 percent
- Drove alone66.3 percent
- Carpooled6.6 percent plus or minus 2.3
- Public transport1.8 percent plus or minus 1.0
- Walked0.6 percent plus or minus 0.4
- Worked from home23.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Benicia
SBA loans in Benicia (7(a))
- Approvals36
- Gross approval$23,321,800
- Average approval$647,828
- Median approval$325,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,808,000
- Largest approval$5,000,000
- Jobs supported248
- Jobs per approval6.9
- Loans with a final outcome6
- Paid in full5
- Charged off1
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more13.9 percent
- Share to franchises8.3 percent
- Distinct lenders22
- Distinct industries by NAICS30
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 6 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.
Benicia
SBA loans in Benicia (504)
- Approvals29
- Gross approval$26,764,000
- Average approval$922,897
- Median approval$629,000
- Largest approval$4,994,000
- Jobs supported366
- Loans with a final outcome10
- Charged off0
- Charge-off rate over resolved loans0.0 percent
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs4
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Benicia
Flood risk in Benicia
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number060368
- Currently effective map date08/03/16
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.
Solano County, not Benicia
Solano County context, not Benicia figures
These are Solano County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Benicia measurements.
- Establishments in Solano County7,755
- Employment at those establishments, Solano County122,010
- Covered employment, Solano County143,366
- Average annual pay, Solano County$71,403
- Average weekly wage, Solano County$1,373
- Housing units permitted, Solano County1,455
- Of those, single family, Solano County1,271
- County product, 2024, Solano County$37,694,901,000
- County product change over the prior year, Solano County6.3 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Solano County$76,997
Every figure in this section is published for Solano County as a whole and is not a measurement of Benicia. 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
Benicia questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Benicia, California?
26,749, in 11,051 households. Benicia city covers 12.81 square miles of land, which is 2,088 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Benicia in?
Solano 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 Benicia?
$121,204. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $810,000. Median gross rent is $2,280 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Benicia businesses?
36 7(a) approvals totalling $23.3 m, across 22 lenders, median approval $325,000, plus 29 504 approvals worth $26.8 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Benicia, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Benicia borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Benicia. only 6 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 Benicia in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Benicia appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 060368, 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 Benicia figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Solano 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 Benicia.
Is zoning published for Benicia?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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