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Wabash city, Indiana: commercial real estate data.
Wabash city is a Census city of 10,358 people across 9.65 square miles of land, in Wabash County. Median household income is $53,410, 70.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 9 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $8.2 m.
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Wabash
What Wabash is
- Census place typecity
- Land area9.65 sq mi
- Water area0.24 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,074
- County holding the largest share of its areaWabash 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.
Wabash
How many people live in Wabash
- Population10,358
- Median age40.3
- Population under 182,408
- Share under 1823.2 percent
- Population 65 and over2,275
- Share 65 and over22.0 percent
- Households4,433
- Family households2,604
- Share of households that are families58.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wabash
Income and work in Wabash
- Median household income$53,410
- Per capita income$32,760
- Civilian labor force4,669
- Employed4,462
- Unemployed207 plus or minus 114
- Unemployment rate4.4 percent plus or minus 2.4
- Adults 25 and over7,370
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher89.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher23.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree6.8 percent plus or minus 2.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wabash
Housing in Wabash
- Housing units4,919
- Occupied units4,433
- Vacant units486 plus or minus 184
- Vacancy rate9.9 percent plus or minus 3.7
- Owner occupied3,129
- Renter occupied1,304
- Ownership rate70.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$116,500
- Median gross rent, monthly$739
- Annual rent as a share of median income16.6 percent
- Single family units3,988
- Share single family81.1 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more869 plus or minus 236
- Share in buildings of two or more17.7 percent plus or minus 4.7
- Mobile homes34 plus or minus 27
- Median year structure built1954
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wabash
How Wabash gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute4,143
- Commuting under 15 minutes2,491
- Share commuting under 15 minutes60.1 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more833 plus or minus 239
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more20.1 percent plus or minus 5.5
- Drove alone84.1 percent
- Carpooled9.8 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Public transport0.4 percent plus or minus 0.5
- Walked1.8 percent plus or minus 1.4
- Worked from home3.1 percent plus or minus 1.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wabash
SBA 7(a) lending to Wabash borrowers
- Approvals9
- Gross approval$8,168,200
- Average approval$907,578
- Median approval$500,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,818,000
- Largest approval$1,818,000
- Jobs supported256
- Jobs per approval28.4
- Loans with a final outcome3
- Paid in full3
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises44.4 percent
- Distinct lenders6
- Distinct industries by NAICS6
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 3 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.
Wabash
SBA 504 lending to Wabash borrowers
- Approvals7
- Gross approval$2,372,000
- Average approval$338,857
- Median approval$248,000
- Largest approval$1,315,000
- Jobs supported62
- Loans with a final outcome5
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs2
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Wabash County, not Wabash
Wabash County context, not Wabash figures
These are Wabash County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Wabash measurements.
- Establishments in Wabash County747
- Employment at those establishments, Wabash County10,893
- Covered employment, Wabash County12,395
- Average annual pay, Wabash County$50,288
- Average weekly wage, Wabash County$967
- Housing units permitted, Wabash County46
- Of those, single family, Wabash County46
- County product, 2024, Wabash County$1,714,709,000
- County product change over the prior year, Wabash County2.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Wabash County$47,691
Every figure in this section is published for Wabash County as a whole and is not a measurement of Wabash. 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
Wabash questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Wabash, Indiana?
10,358, in 4,433 households. Wabash city covers 9.65 square miles of land, which is 1,074 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Wabash in?
Wabash 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 Wabash?
$53,410. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $116,500. Median gross rent is $739 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Wabash businesses?
9 7(a) approvals totalling $8.2 m, across 6 lenders, median approval $500,000, plus 7 504 approvals worth $2.4 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Wabash, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Wabash borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Wabash. only 3 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 Wabash figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Wabash 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 Wabash.
Is zoning published for Wabash?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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