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Berwyn city, Illinois: commercial real estate data.
Berwyn city is a Census city of 55,595 people across 3.90 square miles of land, in Cook County. Median household income is $78,408, 61.1 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 40 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $18.4 m.
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Berwyn
What Berwyn is
- Census place typecity
- Land area3.9 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land14,239
- County holding the largest share of its areaCook 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.
Berwyn
How many people live in Berwyn
- Population55,595
- Median age37.8
- Population under 1812,463
- Share under 1822.4 percent
- Population 65 and over7,625
- Share 65 and over13.7 percent
- Households20,476
- Family households13,632
- Share of households that are families66.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Berwyn
Income and work in Berwyn
- Median household income$78,408
- Per capita income$34,812
- Civilian labor force31,334
- Employed29,168
- Unemployed2,166 plus or minus 511
- Unemployment rate6.9 percent plus or minus 1.6
- Adults 25 and over38,026
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher84.3 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher24.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree8.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Berwyn
Housing in Berwyn
- Housing units22,027
- Occupied units20,476
- Vacant units1,551 plus or minus 334
- Vacancy rate7.0 percent plus or minus 1.5
- Owner occupied12,504
- Renter occupied7,972
- Ownership rate61.1 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$299,800
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,215
- Annual rent as a share of median income18.6 percent
- Single family units11,738
- Share single family53.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more10,169
- Share in buildings of two or more46.2 percent
- Mobile homes120 plus or minus 114
- Median year structure built1938
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Berwyn
How Berwyn gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute25,282
- Commuting under 15 minutes5,432
- Share commuting under 15 minutes21.5 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more12,321
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more48.7 percent
- Drove alone61.9 percent
- Carpooled15.0 percent
- Public transport5.0 percent plus or minus 1.7
- Walked2.1 percent plus or minus 0.8
- Worked from home12.2 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Berwyn
SBA 7(a) lending to Berwyn borrowers
- Approvals40
- Gross approval$18,379,500
- Average approval$459,488
- Median approval$150,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,100,000
- Largest approval$5,000,000
- Jobs supported689
- Jobs per approval17.2
- Loans with a final outcome6
- Paid in full6
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more40.0 percent
- Share to franchises7.5 percent
- Distinct lenders19
- Distinct industries by NAICS22
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 6 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.
Berwyn
SBA 504 lending to Berwyn borrowers
- Approvals15
- Gross approval$6,547,000
- Average approval$436,467
- Median approval$408,000
- Largest approval$1,175,000
- Jobs supported151
- Loans with a final outcome5
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs3
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Berwyn
Flood programme status in Berwyn
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number171036
- Currently effective map date(NSFHA)
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.
Cook County, not Berwyn
Cook County context, not Berwyn figures
These are Cook County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Berwyn measurements.
- Establishments in Cook County134,513
- Employment at those establishments, Cook County2,492,328
- Covered employment, Cook County2,565,567
- Average annual pay, Cook County$86,931
- Average weekly wage, Cook County$1,672
- Housing units permitted, Cook County6,507
- Of those, single family, Cook County1,142
- County product, 2024, Cook County$546,440,623,000
- County product change over the prior year, Cook County4.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Cook County$91,691
Every figure in this section is published for Cook County as a whole and is not a measurement of Berwyn. 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
Berwyn questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Berwyn, Illinois?
55,595, in 20,476 households. Berwyn city covers 3.90 square miles of land, which is 14,239 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Berwyn in?
Cook 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 Berwyn?
$78,408. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $299,800. Median gross rent is $1,215 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Berwyn businesses?
40 7(a) approvals totalling $18.4 m, across 19 lenders, median approval $150,000, plus 15 504 approvals worth $6.5 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Berwyn, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Berwyn borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Berwyn. only 6 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 Berwyn in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Berwyn appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 171036, 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 Berwyn figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Cook 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 Berwyn.
Is zoning published for Berwyn?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.