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Bantam borough, Connecticut: commercial real estate data.
Bantam borough is a Census borough of 810 people across 1.01 square miles of land, in Northwest Hills Planning Region. 49.1 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 4 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.2 m.
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Bantam
What Bantam is
- Census place typeborough
- Land area1.01 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land802 plus or minus 196
- County holding the largest share of its areaNorthwest Hills Planning Region, 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.
Bantam
How many people live in Bantam
- Population810 plus or minus 198
- Median age47.2 plus or minus 15.7
- Population under 18152 plus or minus 65
- Share under 1818.8 percent plus or minus 6.5
- Population 65 and over206 plus or minus 47
- Share 65 and over25.4 percent plus or minus 8.5
- Households426 plus or minus 86
- Family households172 plus or minus 55
- Share of households that are families40.4 percent plus or minus 10.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bantam
Income and work in Bantam
- Per capita income$45,824
- Civilian labor force380 plus or minus 111
- Employed357 plus or minus 108
- Unemployed23 plus or minus 20
- Unemployment rate6.1 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Adults 25 and over606 plus or minus 121
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher93.9 percent plus or minus 26.0
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher26.2 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree10.9 percent plus or minus 5.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bantam
Housing in Bantam
- Housing units463
- Occupied units426 plus or minus 86
- Vacant units37 plus or minus 27
- Vacancy rate8.0 percent plus or minus 5.6
- Owner occupied209 plus or minus 55
- Renter occupied217 plus or minus 67
- Ownership rate49.1 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$317,700
- Median gross rent, monthly$688
- Single family units235 plus or minus 60
- Share single family50.8 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more228 plus or minus 60
- Share in buildings of two or more49.2 percent
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1953
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bantam
How Bantam gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute299 plus or minus 97
- Commuting under 15 minutes62 plus or minus 32
- Share commuting under 15 minutes20.7 percent plus or minus 8.3
- Commuting 30 minutes or more117 plus or minus 44
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more39.1 percent
- Drove alone78.7 percent
- Carpooled0.6 percent plus or minus 1.1
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked4.8 percent plus or minus 5.4
- Worked from home16.0 percent plus or minus 7.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bantam
SBA 7(a) lending to Bantam borrowers
- Approvals4
- Gross approval$1,180,000
- Average approval$295,000
- Median approval$500,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$500,000
- Largest approval$500,000
- Jobs supported21
- Jobs per approval5.3
- Loans with a final outcome2
- Paid in full2
- Charged off0
- Median term96 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 2 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.
Northwest Hills Planning Region, not Bantam
Northwest Hills Planning Region context, not Bantam figures
These are Northwest Hills Planning Region figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Bantam measurements.
- Establishments in Northwest Hills Planning Region2,909
- Employment at those establishments, Northwest Hills Planning Region31,833
- Covered employment, Northwest Hills Planning Region37,684
- Average annual pay, Northwest Hills Planning Region$64,312
- Average weekly wage, Northwest Hills Planning Region$1,237
- Housing units permitted, Northwest Hills Planning Region141
- Of those, single family, Northwest Hills Planning Region124
- County product, 2024, Northwest Hills Planning Region$6,465,153,000
- Average income of an arriving household, Northwest Hills Planning Region$115,175
Every figure in this section is published for Northwest Hills Planning Region as a whole and is not a measurement of Bantam. 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.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- The American Community Survey does not publish a median household income for this place, which happens where the sample is too small to support one.
- 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
Bantam questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Bantam, Connecticut?
810, in 426 households. Bantam borough covers 1.01 square miles of land, which is 802 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Bantam in?
Northwest Hills Planning Region, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
How much SBA lending goes to Bantam businesses?
4 7(a) approvals totalling $1.2 m, across 3 lenders, median approval $500,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Bantam, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Bantam borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Bantam. only 2 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.
Are the county figures on this page Bantam figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Northwest Hills Planning Region 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 Bantam.
Is zoning published for Bantam?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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