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Granite City city, Illinois: commercial real estate data.
Granite City city is a Census city of 26,549 people across 19.01 square miles of land, in Madison County. Median household income is $59,205, 72.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 24 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $8.2 m.
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Granite City
What Granite City is
- Census place typecity
- Land area19.01 sq mi
- Water area1.56 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,396
- County holding the largest share of its areaMadison 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.
Granite City
How many people live in Granite City
- Population26,549
- Median age40.4
- Population under 185,851
- Share under 1822.0 percent
- Population 65 and over5,153
- Share 65 and over19.4 percent
- Households11,562
- Family households6,357
- Share of households that are families55.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Granite City
- Median household income$59,205
- Per capita income$31,559
- Civilian labor force12,487
- Employed11,777
- Unemployed710 plus or minus 223
- Unemployment rate5.7 percent plus or minus 1.8
- Adults 25 and over19,085
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher88.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher15.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.3 percent plus or minus 1.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Granite City
- Housing units12,854
- Occupied units11,562
- Vacant units1,292 plus or minus 286
- Vacancy rate10.1 percent plus or minus 2.2
- Owner occupied8,399
- Renter occupied3,163
- Ownership rate72.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$104,300
- Median gross rent, monthly$834
- Annual rent as a share of median income16.9 percent
- Single family units10,705
- Share single family83.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more2,095 plus or minus 424
- Share in buildings of two or more16.3 percent
- Mobile homes54 plus or minus 45
- Median year structure built1957
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Granite City gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute10,472
- Commuting under 15 minutes3,752
- Share commuting under 15 minutes35.8 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more3,288
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more31.4 percent
- Drove alone82.8 percent
- Carpooled5.3 percent plus or minus 1.5
- Public transport1.2 percent plus or minus 0.8
- Walked1.0 percent plus or minus 1.0
- Worked from home8.9 percent plus or minus 2.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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SBA loans in Granite City (7(a))
- Approvals24
- Gross approval$8,165,000
- Average approval$340,208
- Median approval$200,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$828,500
- Largest approval$2,059,600
- Jobs supported211
- Jobs per approval8.8
- Loans with a final outcome3
- Paid in full3
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more37.5 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders16
- Distinct industries by NAICS15
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.
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SBA loans in Granite City (504)
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$9,599,000
- Average approval$4,799,500
- Median approval$5,000,000
- Largest approval$5,000,000
- Jobs supported98
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Distinct CDCs2
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Granite City
Flood risk in Granite City
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number170443
- Currently effective map date06/01/78
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.
Madison County, not Granite City
Madison County context, not Granite City figures
These are Madison County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Granite City measurements.
- Establishments in Madison County5,659
- Employment at those establishments, Madison County93,915
- Covered employment, Madison County105,166
- Average annual pay, Madison County$57,153
- Average weekly wage, Madison County$1,099
- Housing units permitted, Madison County366
- Of those, single family, Madison County314
- County product, 2024, Madison County$16,575,291,000
- County product change over the prior year, Madison County6.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Madison County$53,270
Every figure in this section is published for Madison County as a whole and is not a measurement of Granite City. 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
Granite City questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Granite City, Illinois?
26,549, in 11,562 households. Granite City city covers 19.01 square miles of land, which is 1,396 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Granite City in?
Madison 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 Granite City?
$59,205. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $104,300. Median gross rent is $834 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Granite City businesses?
24 7(a) approvals totalling $8.2 m, across 16 lenders, median approval $200,000, plus 2 504 approvals worth $9.6 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Granite City, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Granite City borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Granite City. 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 Granite City in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Granite City appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 170443, 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 Granite City figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Madison 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 Granite City.
Is zoning published for Granite City?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.