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Wheeler CDP, Indiana: commercial real estate data.
Wheeler CDP is a Census CDP of 283 people across 2.66 square miles of land, in Porter County. 92.1 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $510,000.
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Wheeler
What Wheeler is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area2.66 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land107 plus or minus 49
- 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.
Wheeler
How many people live in Wheeler
- Population283 plus or minus 130
- Median age47.7 plus or minus 30.0
- Population under 1846 plus or minus 45
- Share under 1816.3 percent plus or minus 13.9
- Population 65 and over98 plus or minus 70
- Share 65 and over34.6 percent plus or minus 18.9
- Households140 plus or minus 62
- Family households89 plus or minus 56
- Share of households that are families63.6 percent plus or minus 28.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wheeler
Income and work in Wheeler
- Per capita income$38,152 plus or minus $14,837
- Civilian labor force93 plus or minus 55
- Employed93 plus or minus 55
- Unemployed0
- Unemployment rate0.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over237 plus or minus 113
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher100.0 percent plus or minus 67.4
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher6.3 percent plus or minus 10.0
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree6.3 percent plus or minus 10.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wheeler
Housing in Wheeler
- Housing units140 plus or minus 62
- Occupied units140 plus or minus 62
- Vacant units0
- Vacancy rate0.0 percent
- Owner occupied129 plus or minus 57
- Renter occupied11 plus or minus 17
- Ownership rate92.1 percent plus or minus 57.6
- Median owner-occupied home value$202,300 plus or minus $115,526
- Single family units140 plus or minus 63
- Share single family100.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1964
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wheeler
How Wheeler gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute93 plus or minus 55
- Commuting under 15 minutes3 plus or minus 14
- Share commuting under 15 minutes3.2 percent plus or minus 14.9
- Commuting 30 minutes or more44 plus or minus 36
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more47.3 percent plus or minus 26.5
- Drove alone100.0 percent
- Carpooled0.0 percent
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wheeler
SBA 7(a) lending to Wheeler borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$510,000
- Average approval$510,000
- Median approval$510,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$510,000
- Largest approval$510,000
- Jobs supported9
- Jobs per approval9.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more100.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- 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 County, not Wheeler
Porter County context, not Wheeler 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 Wheeler 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 Wheeler. 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.
- The American Community Survey does not publish a median household income for this place, which happens where the sample is too small to support one.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- 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
Wheeler questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Wheeler, Indiana?
283, in 140 households. Wheeler CDP covers 2.66 square miles of land, which is 107 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Wheeler in?
Porter County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
How much SBA lending goes to Wheeler businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $510,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $510,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Wheeler, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Wheeler borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Wheeler. 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 Wheeler 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 Wheeler.
Is zoning published for Wheeler?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.