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Fort Myers city, Florida: commercial real estate data.
Fort Myers city is a Census city of 95,051 people across 40.05 square miles of land, in Lee County. Median household income is $63,732, 49.1 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 442 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $380.7 m.
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Fort Myers
What Fort Myers is
- Census place typecity
- Land area40.05 sq mi
- Water area9.19 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land2,373
- County holding the largest share of its areaLee 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.
Fort Myers
How many people live in Fort Myers
- Population95,051
- Median age41.3
- Population under 1818,110
- Share under 1819.1 percent
- Population 65 and over22,016
- Share 65 and over23.2 percent
- Households38,364
- Family households21,917
- Share of households that are families57.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fort Myers
Income and work in Fort Myers
- Median household income$63,732
- Per capita income$41,476
- Civilian labor force44,663
- Employed42,790
- Unemployed1,873
- Unemployment rate4.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over69,457
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher85.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher32.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree13.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fort Myers
Housing in Fort Myers
- Housing units48,984
- Occupied units38,364
- Vacant units10,620
- Vacancy rate21.7 percent
- Owner occupied18,825
- Renter occupied19,539
- Ownership rate49.1 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$384,500
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,580
- Annual rent as a share of median income29.7 percent
- Single family units22,686
- Share single family46.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more25,390
- Share in buildings of two or more51.8 percent
- Mobile homes900 plus or minus 272
- Median year structure built2001
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fort Myers
How Fort Myers gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute36,115
- Commuting under 15 minutes7,268
- Share commuting under 15 minutes20.1 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more12,271
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more34.0 percent
- Drove alone68.1 percent
- Carpooled13.1 percent
- Public transport1.2 percent plus or minus 0.6
- Walked1.0 percent plus or minus 0.4
- Worked from home13.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fort Myers
SBA loans in Fort Myers (7(a))
- Approvals442
- Gross approval$380,739,000
- Average approval$861,400
- Median approval$350,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$2,560,000
- Largest approval$5,000,000
- Jobs supported6,349
- Jobs per approval14.4
- Loans with a final outcome94
- Paid in full88
- Charged off6
- Charge-off rate over resolved loans6.4 percent
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more16.1 percent
- Share to franchises16.7 percent
- Distinct lenders98
- Distinct industries by NAICS162
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Fort Myers
SBA loans in Fort Myers (504)
- Approvals134
- Gross approval$124,386,000
- Average approval$928,254
- Median approval$594,000
- Largest approval$4,897,000
- Jobs supported1,634
- Loans with a final outcome50
- 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.
Fort Myers
Flood risk in Fort Myers
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- Best Community Rating System classClass 6
- NFIP community number125106
- Currently effective map date11/17/22
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Lee County, not Fort Myers
Lee County context, not Fort Myers figures
These are Lee County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Fort Myers measurements.
- Establishments in Lee County22,756
- Employment at those establishments, Lee County264,855
- Covered employment, Lee County299,283
- Average annual pay, Lee County$61,578
- Average weekly wage, Lee County$1,184
- Housing units permitted, Lee County15,411
- Of those, single family, Lee County10,554
- County product, 2024, Lee County$54,159,628,000
- County product change over the prior year, Lee County6.3 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Lee County$152,292
Every figure in this section is published for Lee County as a whole and is not a measurement of Fort Myers. 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
Fort Myers questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Fort Myers, Florida?
95,051, in 38,364 households. Fort Myers city covers 40.05 square miles of land, which is 2,373 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Fort Myers in?
Lee 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 Fort Myers?
$63,732. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $384,500. Median gross rent is $1,580 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Fort Myers businesses?
442 7(a) approvals totalling $380.7 m, across 98 lenders, median approval $350,000, plus 134 504 approvals worth $124.4 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Fort Myers, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Fort Myers borrowers get paid back?
Of the 94 loans that have reached a final outcome, 88 were paid in full and 6 charged off, a charge off rate of 6.4 percent. Loans still running are excluded because they have not yet succeeded or failed.
Is Fort Myers in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Fort Myers appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 125106, carrying Community Rating System class 6, 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 Fort Myers figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Lee 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 Fort Myers.
Is zoning published for Fort Myers?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.