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Porter town, Indiana: commercial real estate data.
Porter town is a Census town of 5,217 people across 6.18 square miles of land, in Porter County. Median household income is $74,542, 82.5 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 2 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $535,200.
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Porter
What Porter is
- Census place typetown
- Land area6.18 sq mi
- Water area0.28 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land844
- County holding the largest share of its areaPorter 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.
Porter
How many people live in Porter
- Population5,217
- Median age43.7
- Population under 18990 plus or minus 255
- Share under 1819.0 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Population 65 and over1,030 plus or minus 216
- Share 65 and over19.7 percent plus or minus 4.1
- Households2,128
- Family households1,400
- Share of households that are families65.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Porter
Income and work in Porter
- Median household income$74,542 plus or minus $17,772
- Per capita income$39,927
- Civilian labor force2,710
- Employed2,534
- Unemployed176 plus or minus 66
- Unemployment rate6.5 percent plus or minus 2.4
- Adults 25 and over3,931
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher97.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher27.8 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree6.7 percent plus or minus 2.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Porter
Housing in Porter
- Housing units2,234
- Occupied units2,128
- Vacant units106 plus or minus 92
- Vacancy rate4.7 percent plus or minus 4.1
- Owner occupied1,756
- Renter occupied372 plus or minus 117
- Ownership rate82.5 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$267,700
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,026
- Annual rent as a share of median income16.5 percent plus or minus 4.7
- Single family units1,882
- Share single family84.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more352 plus or minus 124
- Share in buildings of two or more15.8 percent plus or minus 5.4
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1991
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Porter
How Porter gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute2,131
- Commuting under 15 minutes583 plus or minus 159
- Share commuting under 15 minutes27.4 percent plus or minus 6.7
- Commuting 30 minutes or more797 plus or minus 196
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more37.4 percent plus or minus 8.0
- Drove alone77.6 percent
- Carpooled7.6 percent plus or minus 3.9
- Public transport0.5 percent plus or minus 0.8
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home14.4 percent plus or minus 6.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Porter
SBA 7(a) lending to Porter borrowers
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$535,200
- Average approval$267,600
- Median approval$480,300
- Ninetieth percentile approval$480,300
- Largest approval$480,300
- Jobs supported4
- Jobs per approval2.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more50.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders2
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
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.
Porter
SBA 504 lending to Porter borrowers
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$622,000
- Average approval$311,000
- Median approval$451,000
- Largest approval$451,000
- Jobs supported8
- Loans with a final outcome0
- 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.
Porter County, not Porter
Porter County context, not Porter figures
These are Porter County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Porter measurements.
- Establishments in Porter County3,734
- Employment at those establishments, Porter County55,789
- Covered employment, Porter County63,768
- Average annual pay, Porter County$58,217
- Average weekly wage, Porter County$1,120
- Housing units permitted, Porter County556
- Of those, single family, Porter County556
- County product, 2024, Porter County$9,875,314,000
- County product change over the prior year, Porter County2.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Porter County$68,353
Every figure in this section is published for Porter County as a whole and is not a measurement of Porter. 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
Porter questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Porter, Indiana?
5,217, in 2,128 households. Porter town covers 6.18 square miles of land, which is 844 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Porter in?
Porter 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 Porter?
$74,542. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $267,700. Median gross rent is $1,026 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Porter businesses?
2 7(a) approvals totalling $535,200, across 2 lenders, median approval $480,300, plus 2 504 approvals worth $622,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Porter, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Porter borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Porter. 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 Porter figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Porter 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 Porter.
Is zoning published for Porter?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.