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Danbury city, Connecticut: commercial real estate data.
Danbury city is a Census city of 87,263 people across 42.03 square miles of land, in Western Connecticut Planning Region. Median household income is $83,393, 53.8 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 122 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $47.7 m.
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Danbury
What Danbury is
- Census place typecity
- Land area42.03 sq mi
- Water area2.24 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land2,076
- County holding the largest share of its areaWestern Connecticut 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.
Danbury
How many people live in Danbury
- Population87,263
- Median age40.6
- Population under 1817,094
- Share under 1819.6 percent
- Population 65 and over14,971
- Share 65 and over17.2 percent
- Households33,071
- Family households20,824
- Share of households that are families63.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Danbury
Income and work in Danbury
- Median household income$83,393
- Per capita income$45,585
- Civilian labor force50,542
- Employed47,247
- Unemployed3,295
- Unemployment rate6.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over61,182
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher83.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher34.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree14.5 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Danbury
Housing in Danbury
- Housing units34,948
- Occupied units33,071
- Vacant units1,877 plus or minus 394
- Vacancy rate5.4 percent plus or minus 1.1
- Owner occupied17,776
- Renter occupied15,295
- Ownership rate53.8 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$411,200
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,846
- Annual rent as a share of median income26.6 percent
- Single family units18,725
- Share single family53.6 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more15,699
- Share in buildings of two or more44.9 percent
- Mobile homes503 plus or minus 198
- Median year structure built1975
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Danbury
How Danbury gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute39,927
- Commuting under 15 minutes9,915
- Share commuting under 15 minutes24.8 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more16,307
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more40.8 percent
- Drove alone66.2 percent
- Carpooled15.4 percent
- Public transport2.3 percent plus or minus 0.7
- Walked1.4 percent plus or minus 0.6
- Worked from home12.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Danbury
SBA loans in Danbury (7(a))
- Approvals122
- Gross approval$47,730,800
- Average approval$391,236
- Median approval$150,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$894,400
- Largest approval$5,000,000
- Jobs supported1,038
- Jobs per approval8.5
- Loans with a final outcome23
- Paid in full20
- Charged off3
- Charge-off rate over resolved loans13.0 percent
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more13.1 percent
- Share to franchises10.7 percent
- Distinct lenders30
- Distinct industries by NAICS79
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Danbury
SBA loans in Danbury (504)
- Approvals45
- Gross approval$44,889,000
- Average approval$997,533
- Median approval$400,000
- Largest approval$4,902,000
- Jobs supported492
- Loans with a final outcome12
- 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.
Western Connecticut Planning Region, not Danbury
Western Connecticut Planning Region context, not Danbury figures
These are Western Connecticut 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 Danbury measurements.
- Establishments in Western Connecticut Planning Region19,955
- Employment at those establishments, Western Connecticut Planning Region292,288
- Covered employment, Western Connecticut Planning Region287,189
- Average annual pay, Western Connecticut Planning Region$129,052
- Average weekly wage, Western Connecticut Planning Region$2,482
- Housing units permitted, Western Connecticut Planning Region1,094
- Of those, single family, Western Connecticut Planning Region389
- County product, 2024, Western Connecticut Planning Region$76,343,680,000
- Average income of an arriving household, Western Connecticut Planning Region$254,936
Every figure in this section is published for Western Connecticut Planning Region as a whole and is not a measurement of Danbury. 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.
- 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
Danbury questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Danbury, Connecticut?
87,263, in 33,071 households. Danbury city covers 42.03 square miles of land, which is 2,076 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Danbury in?
Western Connecticut Planning Region, 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 Danbury?
$83,393. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $411,200. Median gross rent is $1,846 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Danbury businesses?
122 7(a) approvals totalling $47.7 m, across 30 lenders, median approval $150,000, plus 45 504 approvals worth $44.9 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Danbury, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Danbury borrowers get paid back?
Of the 23 loans that have reached a final outcome, 20 were paid in full and 3 charged off, a charge off rate of 13.0 percent. Loans still running are excluded because they have not yet succeeded or failed.
Are the county figures on this page Danbury figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Western Connecticut 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 Danbury.
Is zoning published for Danbury?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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