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Thornton city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Thornton city is a Census city of 514 people across 1.24 square miles of land, in Cerro Gordo County. Median household income is $67,031, 84.0 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $54,000.
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Thornton
What Thornton is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.24 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land413 plus or minus 91
- County holding the largest share of its areaCerro Gordo 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.
Thornton
How many people live in Thornton
- Population514 plus or minus 113
- Median age34.5 plus or minus 7.3
- Population under 18118 plus or minus 32
- Share under 1823.0 percent
- Population 65 and over104 plus or minus 55
- Share 65 and over20.2 percent plus or minus 9.7
- Households231 plus or minus 53
- Family households168 plus or minus 49
- Share of households that are families72.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Thornton
Income and work in Thornton
- Median household income$67,031
- Per capita income$31,958
- Civilian labor force259 plus or minus 66
- Employed255 plus or minus 66
- Unemployed4 plus or minus 4
- Unemployment rate1.5 percent plus or minus 1.5
- Adults 25 and over344 plus or minus 90
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher92.7 percent plus or minus 31.9
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher17.2 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree2.6 percent plus or minus 3.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Thornton
Housing in Thornton
- Housing units244 plus or minus 54
- Occupied units231 plus or minus 53
- Vacant units13 plus or minus 11
- Vacancy rate5.3 percent plus or minus 4.4
- Owner occupied194 plus or minus 46
- Renter occupied37 plus or minus 23
- Ownership rate84.0 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$115,500 plus or minus $34,324
- Median gross rent, monthly$839
- Annual rent as a share of median income15.0 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Single family units226 plus or minus 52
- Share single family92.6 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more13 plus or minus 18
- Share in buildings of two or more5.3 percent plus or minus 7.3
- Mobile homes5 plus or minus 5
- Median year structure built1953
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Thornton
How Thornton gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute233 plus or minus 63
- Commuting under 15 minutes38 plus or minus 17
- Share commuting under 15 minutes16.3 percent plus or minus 5.9
- Commuting 30 minutes or more68 plus or minus 28
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more29.2 percent plus or minus 9.2
- Drove alone70.6 percent
- Carpooled16.1 percent plus or minus 9.3
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked3.1 percent plus or minus 2.2
- Worked from home8.6 percent plus or minus 6.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Thornton
SBA 7(a) lending to Thornton borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$54,000
- Average approval$54,000
- Median approval$54,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$54,000
- Largest approval$54,000
- Jobs supported2
- Jobs per approval2.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 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 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.
Cerro Gordo County, not Thornton
Cerro Gordo County context, not Thornton figures
These are Cerro Gordo County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Thornton measurements.
- Establishments in Cerro Gordo County1,357
- Employment at those establishments, Cerro Gordo County20,024
- Covered employment, Cerro Gordo County23,531
- Average annual pay, Cerro Gordo County$54,949
- Average weekly wage, Cerro Gordo County$1,057
- Housing units permitted, Cerro Gordo County52
- Of those, single family, Cerro Gordo County30
- County product, 2024, Cerro Gordo County$3,729,490,000
- County product change over the prior year, Cerro Gordo County3.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Cerro Gordo County$67,400
Every figure in this section is published for Cerro Gordo County as a whole and is not a measurement of Thornton. 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
Thornton questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Thornton, Iowa?
514, in 231 households. Thornton city covers 1.24 square miles of land, which is 413 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Thornton in?
Cerro Gordo 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 Thornton?
$67,031. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $115,500. Median gross rent is $839 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Thornton businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $54,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $54,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Thornton, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Thornton borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Thornton. 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 Thornton figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Cerro Gordo 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 Thornton.
Is zoning published for Thornton?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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