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Shipshewana town, Indiana: commercial real estate data.
Shipshewana town is a Census town of 822 people across 1.36 square miles of land, in LaGrange County. Median household income is $43,594, 69.4 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 8 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $7.8 m.
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Shipshewana
What Shipshewana is
- Census place typetown
- Land area1.36 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land603 plus or minus 141
- County holding the largest share of its areaLaGrange 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.
Shipshewana
How many people live in Shipshewana
- Population822 plus or minus 192
- Median age37.7
- Population under 18206 plus or minus 59
- Share under 1825.1 percent
- Population 65 and over216 plus or minus 80
- Share 65 and over26.3 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Households363 plus or minus 99
- Family households262 plus or minus 88
- Share of households that are families72.2 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Shipshewana
Income and work in Shipshewana
- Median household income$43,594 plus or minus $21,272
- Per capita income$29,051
- Civilian labor force390 plus or minus 104
- Employed368 plus or minus 101
- Unemployed22 plus or minus 19
- Unemployment rate5.6 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Adults 25 and over586 plus or minus 141
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher78.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher9.7 percent plus or minus 4.0
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree2.9 percent plus or minus 3.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Shipshewana
- Housing units404 plus or minus 103
- Occupied units363 plus or minus 99
- Vacant units41 plus or minus 27
- Vacancy rate10.1 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Owner occupied252 plus or minus 82
- Renter occupied111 plus or minus 41
- Ownership rate69.4 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$275,800
- Median gross rent, monthly$771
- Annual rent as a share of median income21.2 percent plus or minus 10.6
- Single family units300 plus or minus 91
- Share single family74.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more95 plus or minus 39
- Share in buildings of two or more23.5 percent plus or minus 7.4
- Mobile homes9 plus or minus 9
- Median year structure built1985
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Shipshewana gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute346 plus or minus 94
- Commuting under 15 minutes159 plus or minus 61
- Share commuting under 15 minutes46.0 percent plus or minus 12.3
- Commuting 30 minutes or more68 plus or minus 29
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more19.7 percent plus or minus 6.3
- Drove alone66.7 percent plus or minus 15.8
- Carpooled18.4 percent plus or minus 7.9
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked3.4 percent plus or minus 3.0
- Worked from home2.3 percent plus or minus 2.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Shipshewana
SBA 7(a) lending to Shipshewana borrowers
- Approvals8
- Gross approval$7,840,000
- Average approval$980,000
- Median approval$450,400
- Ninetieth percentile approval$3,147,000
- Largest approval$3,147,000
- Jobs supported136
- Jobs per approval17.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more25.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders4
- Distinct industries by NAICS5
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.
Shipshewana
SBA 504 lending to Shipshewana borrowers
- Approvals4
- Gross approval$2,501,000
- Average approval$625,250
- Median approval$816,000
- Largest approval$1,126,000
- Jobs supported31
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs3
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
LaGrange County, not Shipshewana
LaGrange County context, not Shipshewana figures
These are LaGrange County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Shipshewana measurements.
- Establishments in LaGrange County977
- Employment at those establishments, LaGrange County13,799
- Covered employment, LaGrange County14,765
- Average annual pay, LaGrange County$53,284
- Average weekly wage, LaGrange County$1,025
- Housing units permitted, LaGrange County136
- Of those, single family, LaGrange County136
- County product, 2024, LaGrange County$2,473,271,000
- County product change over the prior year, LaGrange County6.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, LaGrange County$60,020
Every figure in this section is published for LaGrange County as a whole and is not a measurement of Shipshewana. 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
Shipshewana questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Shipshewana, Indiana?
822, in 363 households. Shipshewana town covers 1.36 square miles of land, which is 603 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Shipshewana in?
LaGrange 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 Shipshewana?
$43,594. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $275,800. Median gross rent is $771 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Shipshewana businesses?
8 7(a) approvals totalling $7.8 m, across 4 lenders, median approval $450,400, plus 4 504 approvals worth $2.5 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Shipshewana, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Shipshewana borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Shipshewana. 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 Shipshewana figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for LaGrange 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 Shipshewana.
Is zoning published for Shipshewana?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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