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Sarasota city, Florida: commercial real estate data.
Sarasota city is a Census city of 56,970 people across 14.70 square miles of land, in Sarasota County. Median household income is $72,105, 57.5 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 539 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $360.9 m.
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Sarasota
What Sarasota is
- Census place typecity
- Land area14.7 sq mi
- Water area9.39 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land3,875
- County holding the largest share of its areaSarasota 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.
Sarasota
How many people live in Sarasota
- Population56,970
- Median age48.2
- Population under 188,889
- Share under 1815.6 percent
- Population 65 and over16,610
- Share 65 and over29.2 percent
- Households25,751
- Family households13,810
- Share of households that are families53.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sarasota
Income and work in Sarasota
- Median household income$72,105
- Per capita income$60,995
- Civilian labor force26,371
- Employed25,427
- Unemployed944 plus or minus 223
- Unemployment rate3.6 percent plus or minus 0.8
- Adults 25 and over42,913
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher92.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher41.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree18.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sarasota
Housing in Sarasota
- Housing units32,324
- Occupied units25,751
- Vacant units6,573
- Vacancy rate20.3 percent
- Owner occupied14,799
- Renter occupied10,952
- Ownership rate57.5 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$463,000
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,684
- Annual rent as a share of median income28.0 percent
- Single family units15,968
- Share single family49.4 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more15,106
- Share in buildings of two or more46.7 percent
- Mobile homes1,250
- Median year structure built1976
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sarasota
How Sarasota gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute21,702
- Commuting under 15 minutes5,418
- Share commuting under 15 minutes25.0 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more5,298
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more24.4 percent
- Drove alone71.5 percent
- Carpooled9.6 percent plus or minus 2.0
- Public transport1.0 percent plus or minus 0.6
- Walked2.3 percent plus or minus 0.7
- Worked from home13.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sarasota
SBA loans in Sarasota (7(a))
- Approvals539
- Gross approval$360,875,700
- Average approval$669,528
- Median approval$350,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,803,200
- Largest approval$5,000,000
- Jobs supported6,630
- Jobs per approval12.3
- Loans with a final outcome101
- Paid in full91
- Charged off10
- Charge-off rate over resolved loans9.9 percent
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more14.1 percent
- Share to franchises17.4 percent
- Distinct lenders101
- Distinct industries by NAICS206
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Sarasota
SBA loans in Sarasota (504)
- Approvals219
- Gross approval$174,924,000
- Average approval$798,740
- Median approval$479,000
- Largest approval$5,500,000
- Jobs supported1,828
- Loans with a final outcome63
- Charged off0
- Charge-off rate over resolved loans0.0 percent
- Median term300 months
- Distinct CDCs4
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Sarasota
Flood risk in Sarasota
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- Best Community Rating System classClass 5
- NFIP community number125150
- Currently effective map date03/27/24
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Sarasota County, not Sarasota
Sarasota County context, not Sarasota figures
These are Sarasota County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Sarasota measurements.
- Establishments in Sarasota County15,989
- Employment at those establishments, Sarasota County162,310
- Covered employment, Sarasota County190,078
- Average annual pay, Sarasota County$65,133
- Average weekly wage, Sarasota County$1,253
- Housing units permitted, Sarasota County7,466
- Of those, single family, Sarasota County5,259
- County product, 2024, Sarasota County$35,891,092,000
- County product change over the prior year, Sarasota County7.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Sarasota County$192,550
Every figure in this section is published for Sarasota County as a whole and is not a measurement of Sarasota. 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
Sarasota questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Sarasota, Florida?
56,970, in 25,751 households. Sarasota city covers 14.70 square miles of land, which is 3,875 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Sarasota in?
Sarasota 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 Sarasota?
$72,105. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $463,000. Median gross rent is $1,684 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Sarasota businesses?
539 7(a) approvals totalling $360.9 m, across 101 lenders, median approval $350,000, plus 219 504 approvals worth $174.9 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Sarasota, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Sarasota borrowers get paid back?
Of the 101 loans that have reached a final outcome, 91 were paid in full and 10 charged off, a charge off rate of 9.9 percent. Loans still running are excluded because they have not yet succeeded or failed.
Is Sarasota in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Sarasota appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 125150, carrying Community Rating System class 5, 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 Sarasota figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Sarasota 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 Sarasota.
Is zoning published for Sarasota?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.