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Melba city, Idaho: commercial real estate data.
Melba city is a Census city of 617 people across 0.46 square miles of land, in Canyon County. Median household income is $45,750, 87.0 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 9 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $2.8 m.
66 sourced place values · tier FULL · 7 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
Melba
What Melba is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.46 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,349 plus or minus 464
- County holding the largest share of its areaCanyon 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.
Melba
How many people live in Melba
- Population617 plus or minus 212
- Median age29.4 plus or minus 7.6
- Population under 18198 plus or minus 59
- Share under 1832.1 percent plus or minus 14.5
- Population 65 and over57 plus or minus 23
- Share 65 and over9.2 percent
- Households223 plus or minus 70
- Family households157 plus or minus 57
- Share of households that are families70.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Melba
Income and work in Melba
- Median household income$45,750 plus or minus $15,184
- Per capita income$24,428
- Civilian labor force284 plus or minus 107
- Employed282 plus or minus 107
- Unemployed2 plus or minus 3
- Unemployment rate0.7 percent plus or minus 1.0
- Adults 25 and over348 plus or minus 100
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher82.2 percent plus or minus 31.5
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher9.5 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.6 percent plus or minus 3.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Melba
Housing in Melba
- Housing units240 plus or minus 76
- Occupied units223 plus or minus 70
- Vacant units17 plus or minus 19
- Vacancy rate7.1 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Owner occupied194 plus or minus 66
- Renter occupied29 plus or minus 15
- Ownership rate87.0 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$301,200
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,067
- Annual rent as a share of median income28.0 percent plus or minus 9.8
- Single family units216 plus or minus 72
- Share single family90.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more8 plus or minus 14
- Share in buildings of two or more3.3 percent plus or minus 5.6
- Mobile homes16 plus or minus 9
- Median year structure built1978
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Melba
How Melba gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute242 plus or minus 94
- Commuting under 15 minutes37 plus or minus 19
- Share commuting under 15 minutes15.3 percent plus or minus 5.1
- Commuting 30 minutes or more135 plus or minus 67
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more55.8 percent plus or minus 17.5
- Drove alone74.5 percent
- Carpooled5.3 percent plus or minus 4.1
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked5.0 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Worked from home14.2 percent plus or minus 6.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Melba
SBA loans in Melba (7(a))
- Approvals9
- Gross approval$2,780,300
- Average approval$308,922
- Median approval$235,100
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,100,000
- Largest approval$1,100,000
- Jobs supported53
- Jobs per approval5.9
- Loans with a final outcome3
- Paid in full3
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises11.1 percent
- Distinct lenders5
- Distinct industries by NAICS5
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 3 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.
Canyon County, not Melba
Canyon County context, not Melba figures
These are Canyon County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Melba measurements.
- Establishments in Canyon County5,933
- Employment at those establishments, Canyon County72,117
- Covered employment, Canyon County88,684
- Average annual pay, Canyon County$51,903
- Average weekly wage, Canyon County$998
- Housing units permitted, Canyon County3,609
- Of those, single family, Canyon County3,253
- County product, 2024, Canyon County$11,737,629,000
- County product change over the prior year, Canyon County8.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Canyon County$75,533
Every figure in this section is published for Canyon County as a whole and is not a measurement of Melba. 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
Melba questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Melba, Idaho?
617, in 223 households. Melba city covers 0.46 square miles of land, which is 1,349 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Melba in?
Canyon 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 Melba?
$45,750. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $301,200. Median gross rent is $1,067 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Melba businesses?
9 7(a) approvals totalling $2.8 m, across 5 lenders, median approval $235,100. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Melba, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Melba borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Melba. only 3 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 Melba figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Canyon 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 Melba.
Is zoning published for Melba?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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