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Harwood Heights village, Illinois: commercial real estate data.
Harwood Heights village is a Census village of 8,821 people across 0.82 square miles of land, in Cook County. Median household income is $81,086, 58.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 12 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $3.4 m.
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Harwood Heights
What Harwood Heights is
- Census place typevillage
- Land area0.82 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land10,695
- 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.
Harwood Heights
How many people live in Harwood Heights
- Population8,821
- Median age42.2
- Population under 181,881 plus or minus 405
- Share under 1821.3 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Population 65 and over1,774 plus or minus 384
- Share 65 and over20.1 percent plus or minus 4.4
- Households3,637
- Family households2,412
- Share of households that are families66.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Harwood Heights
Income and work in Harwood Heights
- Median household income$81,086
- Per capita income$42,596
- Civilian labor force4,543
- Employed4,394
- Unemployed149 plus or minus 111
- Unemployment rate3.3 percent plus or minus 2.4
- Adults 25 and over6,376
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher87.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher35.3 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree15.0 percent plus or minus 4.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Harwood Heights
Housing in Harwood Heights
- Housing units3,753
- Occupied units3,637
- Vacant units116 plus or minus 124
- Vacancy rate3.1 percent plus or minus 3.3
- Owner occupied2,133
- Renter occupied1,504
- Ownership rate58.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$321,900
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,236
- Annual rent as a share of median income18.3 percent
- Single family units1,706
- Share single family45.5 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more2,027 plus or minus 411
- Share in buildings of two or more54.0 percent
- Mobile homes20 plus or minus 25
- Median year structure built1968
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Harwood Heights
How Harwood Heights gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute3,856
- Commuting under 15 minutes713 plus or minus 220
- Share commuting under 15 minutes18.5 percent plus or minus 5.4
- Commuting 30 minutes or more2,053 plus or minus 427
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more53.2 percent
- Drove alone71.1 percent
- Carpooled4.3 percent plus or minus 3.0
- Public transport6.6 percent plus or minus 3.6
- Walked4.1 percent plus or minus 2.5
- Worked from home11.4 percent plus or minus 4.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Harwood Heights
SBA 7(a) lending to Harwood Heights borrowers
- Approvals12
- Gross approval$3,397,000
- Average approval$283,083
- Median approval$150,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,000,000
- Largest approval$1,260,000
- Jobs supported95
- Jobs per approval7.9
- Loans with a final outcome4
- Paid in full4
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders10
- Distinct industries by NAICS9
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 4 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.
Harwood Heights
SBA 504 lending to Harwood Heights borrowers
- Approvals5
- Gross approval$2,077,000
- Average approval$415,400
- Median approval$493,000
- Largest approval$619,000
- Jobs supported36
- Loans with a final outcome2
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs2
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Harwood Heights
Flood programme status in Harwood Heights
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number170101
- 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 Harwood Heights
Cook County context, not Harwood Heights 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 Harwood Heights 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 Harwood Heights. 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
Harwood Heights questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Harwood Heights, Illinois?
8,821, in 3,637 households. Harwood Heights village covers 0.82 square miles of land, which is 10,695 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Harwood Heights 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 Harwood Heights?
$81,086. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $321,900. Median gross rent is $1,236 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Harwood Heights businesses?
12 7(a) approvals totalling $3.4 m, across 10 lenders, median approval $150,000, plus 5 504 approvals worth $2.1 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Harwood Heights, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Harwood Heights borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Harwood Heights. only 4 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 Harwood Heights in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Harwood Heights appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 170101, 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 Harwood Heights 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 Harwood Heights.
Is zoning published for Harwood Heights?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.