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Brownstown village, Illinois: commercial real estate data.
Brownstown village is a Census village of 722 people across 0.76 square miles of land, in Fayette County. Median household income is $53,000, 56.8 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $460,000.
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Brownstown
What Brownstown is
- Census place typevillage
- Land area0.76 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land946 plus or minus 287
- County holding the largest share of its areaFayette 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.
Brownstown
How many people live in Brownstown
- Population722 plus or minus 219
- Median age34.0 plus or minus 10.1
- Population under 18186 plus or minus 62
- Share under 1825.8 percent
- Population 65 and over173 plus or minus 88
- Share 65 and over24.0 percent plus or minus 9.8
- Households236 plus or minus 62
- Family households168 plus or minus 46
- Share of households that are families71.2 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brownstown
Income and work in Brownstown
- Median household income$53,000 plus or minus $14,421
- Per capita income$23,956 plus or minus $6,551
- Civilian labor force275 plus or minus 100
- Employed261 plus or minus 99
- Unemployed14 plus or minus 14
- Unemployment rate5.1 percent plus or minus 4.7
- Adults 25 and over490 plus or minus 174
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher75.3 percent plus or minus 31.6
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher4.1 percent plus or minus 3.7
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree1.0 percent plus or minus 2.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brownstown
Housing in Brownstown
- Housing units272 plus or minus 69
- Occupied units236 plus or minus 62
- Vacant units36 plus or minus 24
- Vacancy rate13.2 percent plus or minus 8.2
- Owner occupied134 plus or minus 44
- Renter occupied102 plus or minus 40
- Ownership rate56.8 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$72,900 plus or minus $22,945
- Median gross rent, monthly$886
- Annual rent as a share of median income20.1 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Single family units190 plus or minus 68
- Share single family69.9 percent plus or minus 17.8
- Units in buildings of two or more19 plus or minus 19
- Share in buildings of two or more7.0 percent plus or minus 6.6
- Mobile homes63 plus or minus 31
- Median year structure built1959
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brownstown
How Brownstown gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute246 plus or minus 98
- Commuting under 15 minutes83 plus or minus 55
- Share commuting under 15 minutes33.7 percent plus or minus 18.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more86 plus or minus 69
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more35.0 percent plus or minus 24.4
- Drove alone67.9 percent plus or minus 33.7
- Carpooled29.8 percent plus or minus 30.4
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home2.4 percent plus or minus 3.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brownstown
SBA 7(a) lending to Brownstown borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$460,000
- Average approval$460,000
- Median approval$460,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$460,000
- Largest approval$460,000
- Jobs supported7
- Jobs per approval7.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term84 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 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.
Fayette County, not Brownstown
Fayette County context, not Brownstown figures
These are Fayette County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Brownstown measurements.
- Establishments in Fayette County477
- Employment at those establishments, Fayette County4,556
- Covered employment, Fayette County5,030
- Average annual pay, Fayette County$45,171
- Average weekly wage, Fayette County$869
- Housing units permitted, Fayette County2
- Of those, single family, Fayette County2
- County product, 2024, Fayette County$770,372,000
- County product change over the prior year, Fayette County-1.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Fayette County$47,763
Every figure in this section is published for Fayette County as a whole and is not a measurement of Brownstown. 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
Brownstown questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Brownstown, Illinois?
722, in 236 households. Brownstown village covers 0.76 square miles of land, which is 946 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Brownstown in?
Fayette 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 Brownstown?
$53,000. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $72,900. Median gross rent is $886 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Brownstown businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $460,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $460,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Brownstown, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Brownstown borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Brownstown. only 0 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 Brownstown figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Fayette 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 Brownstown.
Is zoning published for Brownstown?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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