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Griffith town, Indiana: commercial real estate data.
Griffith town is a Census town of 16,273 people across 7.77 square miles of land, in Lake County. Median household income is $76,636, 71.7 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 15 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $9.8 m.
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Griffith
What Griffith is
- Census place typetown
- Land area7.77 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land2,095
- County holding the largest share of its areaLake 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.
Griffith
How many people live in Griffith
- Population16,273
- Median age37.5
- Population under 183,295
- Share under 1820.2 percent
- Population 65 and over2,974
- Share 65 and over18.3 percent
- Households6,969
- Family households4,517
- Share of households that are families64.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Griffith
Income and work in Griffith
- Median household income$76,636
- Per capita income$40,565
- Civilian labor force9,076
- Employed8,735
- Unemployed341 plus or minus 141
- Unemployment rate3.8 percent plus or minus 1.5
- Adults 25 and over11,511
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher95.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher27.9 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree7.7 percent plus or minus 2.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Griffith
Housing in Griffith
- Housing units7,301
- Occupied units6,969
- Vacant units332 plus or minus 188
- Vacancy rate4.5 percent plus or minus 2.6
- Owner occupied4,998
- Renter occupied1,971
- Ownership rate71.7 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$210,100
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,235
- Annual rent as a share of median income19.3 percent
- Single family units5,366
- Share single family73.5 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more1,921 plus or minus 413
- Share in buildings of two or more26.3 percent plus or minus 5.5
- Mobile homes14 plus or minus 21
- Median year structure built1965
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Griffith
How Griffith gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute8,023
- Commuting under 15 minutes1,143 plus or minus 276
- Share commuting under 15 minutes14.2 percent plus or minus 3.3
- Commuting 30 minutes or more3,300 plus or minus 776
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more41.1 percent plus or minus 9.1
- Drove alone78.1 percent
- Carpooled13.1 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Public transport0.5 percent plus or minus 0.5
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home5.5 percent plus or minus 2.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Griffith
SBA loans in Griffith (7(a))
- Approvals15
- Gross approval$9,774,600
- Average approval$651,640
- Median approval$180,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,450,000
- Largest approval$3,832,000
- Jobs supported112
- Jobs per approval7.5
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more13.3 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders10
- Distinct industries by NAICS11
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.
Griffith
SBA loans in Griffith (504)
- Approvals12
- Gross approval$4,293,000
- Average approval$357,750
- Median approval$230,000
- Largest approval$1,116,000
- Jobs supported47
- Loans with a final outcome4
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs1
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Lake County, not Griffith
Lake County context, not Griffith figures
These are Lake County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Griffith measurements.
- Establishments in Lake County10,566
- Employment at those establishments, Lake County171,790
- Covered employment, Lake County191,633
- Average annual pay, Lake County$61,200
- Average weekly wage, Lake County$1,177
- Housing units permitted, Lake County1,649
- Of those, single family, Lake County1,621
- County product, 2024, Lake County$31,242,109,000
- County product change over the prior year, Lake County3.3 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Lake County$56,327
Every figure in this section is published for Lake County as a whole and is not a measurement of Griffith. 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
Griffith questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Griffith, Indiana?
16,273, in 6,969 households. Griffith town covers 7.77 square miles of land, which is 2,095 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Griffith in?
Lake 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 Griffith?
$76,636. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $210,100. Median gross rent is $1,235 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Griffith businesses?
15 7(a) approvals totalling $9.8 m, across 10 lenders, median approval $180,000, plus 12 504 approvals worth $4.3 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Griffith, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Griffith borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Griffith. 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 Griffith figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Lake 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 Griffith.
Is zoning published for Griffith?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.