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Albert City city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Albert City city is a Census city of 722 people across 0.54 square miles of land, in Buena Vista County. Median household income is $80,972, 83.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $32,500.
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Albert City
What Albert City is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.54 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,325
- County holding the largest share of its areaBuena Vista 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.
Albert City
How many people live in Albert City
- Population722
- Median age46.2
- Population under 18173 plus or minus 50
- Share under 1824.0 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Population 65 and over204 plus or minus 51
- Share 65 and over28.3 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Households281
- Family households208
- Share of households that are families74.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Albert City
Income and work in Albert City
- Median household income$80,972
- Per capita income$36,933
- Civilian labor force329
- Employed310 plus or minus 64
- Unemployed19 plus or minus 18
- Unemployment rate5.8 percent plus or minus 5.4
- Adults 25 and over522
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher89.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher18.0 percent plus or minus 6.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree8.0 percent plus or minus 5.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Albert City
- Housing units331
- Occupied units281
- Vacant units50 plus or minus 23
- Vacancy rate15.1 percent plus or minus 6.6
- Owner occupied235
- Renter occupied46 plus or minus 21
- Ownership rate83.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$96,500
- Median gross rent, monthly$784
- Annual rent as a share of median income11.6 percent
- Single family units301
- Share single family90.9 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more28 plus or minus 21
- Share in buildings of two or more8.5 percent plus or minus 6.3
- Mobile homes2 plus or minus 4
- Median year structure built1951
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Albert City gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute296 plus or minus 63
- Commuting under 15 minutes101 plus or minus 31
- Share commuting under 15 minutes34.1 percent plus or minus 7.7
- Commuting 30 minutes or more148 plus or minus 45
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more50.0 percent plus or minus 10.7
- Drove alone74.8 percent
- Carpooled12.9 percent plus or minus 7.3
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked7.4 percent plus or minus 4.3
- Worked from home4.2 percent plus or minus 2.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Albert City
SBA loans in Albert City (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$32,500
- Average approval$32,500
- Median approval$32,500
- Ninetieth percentile approval$32,500
- Largest approval$32,500
- Jobs supported4
- Jobs per approval4.0
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term144 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 1 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.
Buena Vista County, not Albert City
Buena Vista County context, not Albert City figures
These are Buena Vista County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Albert City measurements.
- Establishments in Buena Vista County491
- Employment at those establishments, Buena Vista County8,855
- Covered employment, Buena Vista County10,683
- Average annual pay, Buena Vista County$53,893
- Average weekly wage, Buena Vista County$1,036
- Housing units permitted, Buena Vista County172
- Of those, single family, Buena Vista County91
- County product, 2024, Buena Vista County$1,938,391,000
- County product change over the prior year, Buena Vista County8.2 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Buena Vista County$45,361
Every figure in this section is published for Buena Vista County as a whole and is not a measurement of Albert City. 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
Albert City questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Albert City, Iowa?
722, in 281 households. Albert City city covers 0.54 square miles of land, which is 1,325 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Albert City in?
Buena Vista 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 Albert City?
$80,972. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $96,500. Median gross rent is $784 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Albert City businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $32,500, across 1 lenders, median approval $32,500. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Albert City, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Albert City borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Albert City. only 1 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 Albert City figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Buena Vista 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 Albert City.
Is zoning published for Albert City?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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