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Highland town, Indiana: commercial real estate data.
Highland town is a Census town of 23,680 people across 6.93 square miles of land, in Lake County. Median household income is $78,062, 78.4 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 31 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $8.2 m.
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Highland
What Highland is
- Census place typetown
- Land area6.93 sq mi
- Water area0.04 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land3,419
- 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.
Highland
How many people live in Highland
- Population23,680
- Median age44.6
- Population under 184,466
- Share under 1818.9 percent
- Population 65 and over5,096
- Share 65 and over21.5 percent
- Households10,440
- Family households6,518
- Share of households that are families62.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Highland
Income and work in Highland
- Median household income$78,062
- Per capita income$42,248
- Civilian labor force12,184
- Employed11,609
- Unemployed575 plus or minus 170
- Unemployment rate4.7 percent plus or minus 1.4
- Adults 25 and over17,762
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher94.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher29.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree9.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Highland
Housing in Highland
- Housing units10,879
- Occupied units10,440
- Vacant units439 plus or minus 177
- Vacancy rate4.0 percent plus or minus 1.6
- Owner occupied8,187
- Renter occupied2,253
- Ownership rate78.4 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$233,300
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,230
- Annual rent as a share of median income18.9 percent
- Single family units8,280
- Share single family76.1 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more2,538
- Share in buildings of two or more23.3 percent
- Mobile homes61 plus or minus 60
- Median year structure built1967
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Highland
How Highland gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute10,322
- Commuting under 15 minutes2,974
- Share commuting under 15 minutes28.8 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more3,608
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more35.0 percent
- Drove alone82.0 percent
- Carpooled4.3 percent plus or minus 1.6
- Public transport2.8 percent plus or minus 1.2
- Walked0.3 percent plus or minus 0.2
- Worked from home8.5 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Highland
SBA 7(a) lending to Highland borrowers
- Approvals31
- Gross approval$8,176,400
- Average approval$263,755
- Median approval$150,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$394,200
- Largest approval$1,494,000
- Jobs supported248
- Jobs per approval8.0
- Loans with a final outcome4
- Paid in full2
- Charged off2
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more19.4 percent
- Share to franchises19.4 percent
- Distinct lenders14
- Distinct industries by NAICS21
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 4 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.
Highland
SBA 504 lending to Highland borrowers
- Approvals13
- Gross approval$5,133,000
- Average approval$394,846
- Median approval$247,000
- Largest approval$1,019,000
- Jobs supported80
- Loans with a final outcome3
- 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.
Lake County, not Highland
Lake County context, not Highland 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 Highland 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 Highland. 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
Highland questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Highland, Indiana?
23,680, in 10,440 households. Highland town covers 6.93 square miles of land, which is 3,419 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Highland 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 Highland?
$78,062. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $233,300. Median gross rent is $1,230 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Highland businesses?
31 7(a) approvals totalling $8.2 m, across 14 lenders, median approval $150,000, plus 13 504 approvals worth $5.1 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Highland, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Highland borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Highland. only 4 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 Highland 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 Highland.
Is zoning published for Highland?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.