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Munster town, Indiana: commercial real estate data.
Munster town is a Census town of 23,733 people across 7.54 square miles of land, in Lake County. Median household income is $110,187, 87.0 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 24 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $6.7 m.
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Munster
What Munster is
- Census place typetown
- Land area7.54 sq mi
- Water area0.09 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land3,149
- 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.
Munster
How many people live in Munster
- Population23,733
- Median age45.0
- Population under 184,637
- Share under 1819.5 percent
- Population 65 and over4,918
- Share 65 and over20.7 percent
- Households9,471
- Family households6,388
- Share of households that are families67.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Munster
Income and work in Munster
- Median household income$110,187
- Per capita income$57,382
- Civilian labor force12,436
- Employed11,749
- Unemployed687 plus or minus 225
- Unemployment rate5.5 percent plus or minus 1.8
- Adults 25 and over17,196
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher95.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher49.9 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree18.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Munster
Housing in Munster
- Housing units9,814
- Occupied units9,471
- Vacant units343 plus or minus 141
- Vacancy rate3.5 percent plus or minus 1.4
- Owner occupied8,237
- Renter occupied1,234 plus or minus 354
- Ownership rate87.0 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$334,300
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,507 plus or minus $365
- Annual rent as a share of median income16.4 percent plus or minus 4.3
- Single family units8,010
- Share single family81.6 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more1,792 plus or minus 391
- Share in buildings of two or more18.3 percent plus or minus 3.9
- Mobile homes12 plus or minus 18
- Median year structure built1973
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Munster
How Munster gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute10,108
- Commuting under 15 minutes2,848
- Share commuting under 15 minutes28.2 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more4,199
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more41.5 percent
- Drove alone74.7 percent
- Carpooled5.7 percent plus or minus 1.5
- Public transport3.4 percent plus or minus 1.1
- Walked1.9 percent plus or minus 1.0
- Worked from home13.0 percent plus or minus 2.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Munster
SBA 7(a) lending to Munster borrowers
- Approvals24
- Gross approval$6,721,300
- Average approval$280,054
- Median approval$200,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$754,300
- Largest approval$943,500
- Jobs supported167
- Jobs per approval7.0
- Loans with a final outcome8
- Paid in full6
- Charged off2
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more8.3 percent
- Share to franchises20.8 percent
- Distinct lenders15
- Distinct industries by NAICS16
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 8 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.
Munster
SBA 504 lending to Munster borrowers
- Approvals11
- Gross approval$9,374,000
- Average approval$852,182
- Median approval$670,000
- Largest approval$3,576,000
- Jobs supported134
- Loans with a final outcome2
- 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 Munster
Lake County context, not Munster 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 Munster 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 Munster. 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
Munster questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Munster, Indiana?
23,733, in 9,471 households. Munster town covers 7.54 square miles of land, which is 3,149 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Munster 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 Munster?
$110,187. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $334,300. Median gross rent is $1,507 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Munster businesses?
24 7(a) approvals totalling $6.7 m, across 15 lenders, median approval $200,000, plus 11 504 approvals worth $9.4 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Munster, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Munster borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Munster. only 8 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 Munster 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 Munster.
Is zoning published for Munster?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.