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Sycamore city, Illinois: commercial real estate data.
Sycamore city is a Census city of 18,559 people across 10.12 square miles of land, in DeKalb County. Median household income is $84,120, 71.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 21 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $29.6 m.
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Sycamore
What Sycamore is
- Census place typecity
- Land area10.12 sq mi
- Water area0.06 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,834
- County holding the largest share of its areaDeKalb 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.
Sycamore
How many people live in Sycamore
- Population18,559
- Median age36.1
- Population under 184,362
- Share under 1823.5 percent
- Population 65 and over2,459
- Share 65 and over13.2 percent
- Households7,401
- Family households4,942
- Share of households that are families66.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sycamore
Income and work in Sycamore
- Median household income$84,120
- Per capita income$43,190
- Civilian labor force10,508
- Employed10,193
- Unemployed315 plus or minus 134
- Unemployment rate3.0 percent plus or minus 1.3
- Adults 25 and over12,268
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher96.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher46.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree19.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sycamore
Housing in Sycamore
- Housing units7,723
- Occupied units7,401
- Vacant units322 plus or minus 132
- Vacancy rate4.2 percent plus or minus 1.7
- Owner occupied5,298
- Renter occupied2,103
- Ownership rate71.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$265,700
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,140
- Annual rent as a share of median income16.3 percent
- Single family units5,832
- Share single family75.5 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more1,707 plus or minus 394
- Share in buildings of two or more22.1 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Mobile homes184 plus or minus 93
- Median year structure built1993
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sycamore
How Sycamore gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute8,764
- Commuting under 15 minutes2,956
- Share commuting under 15 minutes33.7 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more3,520
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more40.2 percent
- Drove alone76.5 percent
- Carpooled4.9 percent plus or minus 2.1
- Public transport1.0 percent plus or minus 0.9
- Walked1.8 percent plus or minus 1.1
- Worked from home13.4 percent plus or minus 2.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sycamore
SBA loans in Sycamore (7(a))
- Approvals21
- Gross approval$29,590,200
- Average approval$1,409,057
- Median approval$461,200
- Ninetieth percentile approval$4,000,000
- Largest approval$4,500,000
- Jobs supported380
- Jobs per approval18.1
- Loans with a final outcome3
- Paid in full2
- Charged off1
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more33.3 percent
- Share to franchises14.3 percent
- Distinct lenders14
- Distinct industries by NAICS14
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.
Sycamore
SBA loans in Sycamore (504)
- Approvals30
- Gross approval$19,068,000
- Average approval$635,600
- Median approval$340,000
- Largest approval$4,907,000
- Jobs supported232
- Loans with a final outcome11
- Charged off0
- Charge-off rate over resolved loans0.0 percent
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs3
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Sycamore
Flood risk in Sycamore
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- Best Community Rating System classClass 7
- NFIP community number170191
- Currently effective map date01/02/09
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
DeKalb County, not Sycamore
DeKalb County context, not Sycamore figures
These are DeKalb County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Sycamore measurements.
- Establishments in DeKalb County1,975
- Employment at those establishments, DeKalb County29,129
- Covered employment, DeKalb County36,272
- Average annual pay, DeKalb County$56,896
- Average weekly wage, DeKalb County$1,094
- Housing units permitted, DeKalb County257
- Of those, single family, DeKalb County180
- County product, 2024, DeKalb County$5,661,367,000
- County product change over the prior year, DeKalb County2.2 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, DeKalb County$51,918
Every figure in this section is published for DeKalb County as a whole and is not a measurement of Sycamore. 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
Sycamore questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Sycamore, Illinois?
18,559, in 7,401 households. Sycamore city covers 10.12 square miles of land, which is 1,834 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Sycamore in?
DeKalb 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 Sycamore?
$84,120. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $265,700. Median gross rent is $1,140 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Sycamore businesses?
21 7(a) approvals totalling $29.6 m, across 14 lenders, median approval $461,200, plus 30 504 approvals worth $19.1 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Sycamore, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Sycamore borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Sycamore. 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.
Is Sycamore in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Sycamore appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 170191, carrying Community Rating System class 7, 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 Sycamore figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for DeKalb 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 Sycamore.
Is zoning published for Sycamore?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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