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Belle Glade city, Florida: commercial real estate data.
Belle Glade city is a Census city of 16,972 people across 7.01 square miles of land, in Palm Beach County. Median household income is $48,001, 42.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 11 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $19.0 m.
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Belle Glade
What Belle Glade is
- Census place typecity
- Land area7.01 sq mi
- Water area0.06 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land2,421
- County holding the largest share of its areaPalm Beach 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.
Belle Glade
How many people live in Belle Glade
- Population16,972
- Median age39.0
- Population under 184,450
- Share under 1826.2 percent
- Population 65 and over3,024
- Share 65 and over17.8 percent
- Households5,607
- Family households4,061
- Share of households that are families72.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Belle Glade
Income and work in Belle Glade
- Median household income$48,001
- Per capita income$22,873
- Civilian labor force7,660
- Employed6,916
- Unemployed744 plus or minus 272
- Unemployment rate9.7 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Adults 25 and over11,284
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher68.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher15.9 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.8 percent plus or minus 1.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Belle Glade
Housing in Belle Glade
- Housing units6,340
- Occupied units5,607
- Vacant units733 plus or minus 199
- Vacancy rate11.6 percent plus or minus 3.1
- Owner occupied2,388
- Renter occupied3,219
- Ownership rate42.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$163,100 plus or minus $37,286
- Median gross rent, monthly$898
- Annual rent as a share of median income22.4 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Single family units2,720
- Share single family42.9 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more2,793
- Share in buildings of two or more44.1 percent
- Mobile homes812 plus or minus 201
- Median year structure built1979
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Belle Glade
How Belle Glade gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute6,522
- Commuting under 15 minutes2,797
- Share commuting under 15 minutes42.9 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more2,437 plus or minus 545
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more37.4 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Drove alone73.5 percent
- Carpooled15.5 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Public transport5.0 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Walked1.6 percent plus or minus 1.3
- Worked from home1.5 percent plus or minus 1.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Belle Glade
SBA loans in Belle Glade (7(a))
- Approvals11
- Gross approval$19,040,500
- Average approval$1,730,955
- Median approval$1,705,500
- Ninetieth percentile approval$4,051,500
- Largest approval$4,646,500
- Jobs supported210
- Jobs per approval19.1
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more9.1 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders10
- Distinct industries by NAICS8
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 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.
Belle Glade
SBA loans in Belle Glade (504)
- Approvals5
- Gross approval$1,785,000
- Average approval$357,000
- Median approval$360,000
- Largest approval$503,000
- Jobs supported21
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Distinct CDCs3
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Belle Glade
Flood risk in Belle Glade
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number120194
- Currently effective map date10/05/17
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.
Palm Beach County, not Belle Glade
Palm Beach County context, not Belle Glade figures
These are Palm Beach County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Belle Glade measurements.
- Establishments in Palm Beach County55,803
- Employment at those establishments, Palm Beach County592,227
- Covered employment, Palm Beach County666,889
- Average annual pay, Palm Beach County$77,246
- Average weekly wage, Palm Beach County$1,485
- Housing units permitted, Palm Beach County4,089
- Of those, single family, Palm Beach County2,897
- County product, 2024, Palm Beach County$140,505,730,000
- County product change over the prior year, Palm Beach County5.2 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Palm Beach County$260,093
Every figure in this section is published for Palm Beach County as a whole and is not a measurement of Belle Glade. 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
Belle Glade questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Belle Glade, Florida?
16,972, in 5,607 households. Belle Glade city covers 7.01 square miles of land, which is 2,421 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Belle Glade in?
Palm Beach 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 Belle Glade?
$48,001. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $163,100. Median gross rent is $898 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Belle Glade businesses?
11 7(a) approvals totalling $19.0 m, across 10 lenders, median approval $1,705,500, plus 5 504 approvals worth $1.8 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Belle Glade, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Belle Glade borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Belle Glade. only 0 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 Belle Glade in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Belle Glade appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 120194, 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 Belle Glade figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Palm Beach 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 Belle Glade.
Is zoning published for Belle Glade?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.