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Fairview Heights city, Illinois: commercial real estate data.
Fairview Heights city is a Census city of 16,745 people across 11.46 square miles of land, in St. Clair County. Median household income is $80,930, 69.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 17 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $8.3 m.
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Fairview Heights
What Fairview Heights is
- Census place typecity
- Land area11.46 sq mi
- Water area0.07 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,461
- County holding the largest share of its areaSt. Clair 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.
Fairview Heights
How many people live in Fairview Heights
- Population16,745
- Median age41.0
- Population under 183,585
- Share under 1821.4 percent
- Population 65 and over3,239
- Share 65 and over19.3 percent
- Households7,221
- Family households4,316
- Share of households that are families59.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fairview Heights
Income and work in Fairview Heights
- Median household income$80,930
- Per capita income$40,182
- Civilian labor force8,870
- Employed8,306
- Unemployed564 plus or minus 210
- Unemployment rate6.4 percent plus or minus 2.3
- Adults 25 and over12,045
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher92.9 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher34.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree15.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fairview Heights
Housing in Fairview Heights
- Housing units8,179
- Occupied units7,221
- Vacant units958 plus or minus 293
- Vacancy rate11.7 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Owner occupied5,024
- Renter occupied2,197
- Ownership rate69.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$177,700
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,174
- Annual rent as a share of median income17.4 percent
- Single family units6,325
- Share single family77.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more1,673 plus or minus 404
- Share in buildings of two or more20.5 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Mobile homes181 plus or minus 132
- Median year structure built1972
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fairview Heights
How Fairview Heights gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute7,728
- Commuting under 15 minutes2,192 plus or minus 467
- Share commuting under 15 minutes28.4 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more2,199
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more28.5 percent
- Drove alone79.4 percent
- Carpooled10.0 percent plus or minus 2.9
- Public transport1.5 percent plus or minus 0.9
- Walked1.9 percent plus or minus 1.2
- Worked from home6.5 percent plus or minus 1.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fairview Heights
SBA 7(a) lending to Fairview Heights borrowers
- Approvals17
- Gross approval$8,280,200
- Average approval$487,071
- Median approval$350,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,255,500
- Largest approval$2,665,000
- Jobs supported193
- Jobs per approval11.4
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more11.8 percent
- Share to franchises23.5 percent
- Distinct lenders12
- Distinct industries by NAICS12
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 1 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.
Fairview Heights
SBA 504 lending to Fairview Heights borrowers
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$1,135,000
- Average approval$378,333
- Median approval$393,000
- Largest approval$529,000
- Jobs supported34
- 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.
St. Clair County, not Fairview Heights
St. Clair County context, not Fairview Heights figures
These are St. Clair County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Fairview Heights measurements.
- Establishments in St. Clair County4,973
- Employment at those establishments, St. Clair County72,871
- Covered employment, St. Clair County89,981
- Average annual pay, St. Clair County$57,001
- Average weekly wage, St. Clair County$1,096
- Housing units permitted, St. Clair County740
- Of those, single family, St. Clair County346
- County product, 2024, St. Clair County$16,131,374,000
- County product change over the prior year, St. Clair County2.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, St. Clair County$57,798
Every figure in this section is published for St. Clair County as a whole and is not a measurement of Fairview 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.
- 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
Fairview Heights questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Fairview Heights, Illinois?
16,745, in 7,221 households. Fairview Heights city covers 11.46 square miles of land, which is 1,461 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Fairview Heights in?
St. Clair 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 Fairview Heights?
$80,930. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $177,700. Median gross rent is $1,174 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Fairview Heights businesses?
17 7(a) approvals totalling $8.3 m, across 12 lenders, median approval $350,000, plus 3 504 approvals worth $1.1 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Fairview Heights, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Fairview Heights borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Fairview Heights. only 1 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 Fairview Heights figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for St. Clair 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 Fairview Heights.
Is zoning published for Fairview Heights?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.