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Dallas Center city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Dallas Center city is a Census city of 2,161 people across 5.41 square miles of land, in Dallas County. Median household income is $95,854, 83.3 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 2 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.3 m.
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Dallas Center
What Dallas Center is
- Census place typecity
- Land area5.41 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land399
- County holding the largest share of its areaDallas 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.
Dallas Center
How many people live in Dallas Center
- Population2,161
- Median age41.1
- Population under 18558
- Share under 1825.8 percent
- Population 65 and over480
- Share 65 and over22.2 percent
- Households856
- Family households586
- Share of households that are families68.5 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dallas Center
Income and work in Dallas Center
- Median household income$95,854
- Per capita income$40,631
- Civilian labor force1,008
- Employed1,003
- Unemployed5 plus or minus 8
- Unemployment rate0.5 percent plus or minus 0.8
- Adults 25 and over1,456
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher95.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher29.9 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree8.7 percent plus or minus 3.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dallas Center
Housing in Dallas Center
- Housing units969
- Occupied units856
- Vacant units113 plus or minus 54
- Vacancy rate11.7 percent plus or minus 5.5
- Owner occupied713
- Renter occupied143 plus or minus 43
- Ownership rate83.3 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$246,800
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,120
- Annual rent as a share of median income14.0 percent
- Single family units795
- Share single family82.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more158 plus or minus 61
- Share in buildings of two or more16.3 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Mobile homes16 plus or minus 24
- Median year structure built1974
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dallas Center
How Dallas Center gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute827
- Commuting under 15 minutes150 plus or minus 42
- Share commuting under 15 minutes18.1 percent plus or minus 4.4
- Commuting 30 minutes or more320 plus or minus 65
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more38.7 percent
- Drove alone77.6 percent
- Carpooled2.8 percent plus or minus 1.9
- Public transport0.8 percent plus or minus 1.0
- Walked0.9 percent plus or minus 1.0
- Worked from home17.4 percent plus or minus 4.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dallas Center
SBA 7(a) lending to Dallas Center borrowers
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$1,250,000
- Average approval$625,000
- Median approval$1,175,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,175,000
- Largest approval$1,175,000
- Jobs supported6
- Jobs per approval3.0
- 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 lenders2
- Distinct industries by NAICS2
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.
Dallas Center
SBA 504 lending to Dallas Center borrowers
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$488,000
- Average approval$244,000
- Median approval$249,000
- Largest approval$249,000
- Jobs supported4
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Distinct CDCs1
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Dallas County, not Dallas Center
Dallas County context, not Dallas Center figures
These are Dallas County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Dallas Center measurements.
- Establishments in Dallas County2,521
- Employment at those establishments, Dallas County46,640
- Covered employment, Dallas County55,258
- Average annual pay, Dallas County$76,316
- Average weekly wage, Dallas County$1,468
- Housing units permitted, Dallas County1,513
- Of those, single family, Dallas County883
- County product, 2024, Dallas County$11,106,538,000
- County product change over the prior year, Dallas County7.4 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Dallas County$79,519
Every figure in this section is published for Dallas County as a whole and is not a measurement of Dallas Center. 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
Dallas Center questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Dallas Center, Iowa?
2,161, in 856 households. Dallas Center city covers 5.41 square miles of land, which is 399 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Dallas Center in?
Dallas 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 Dallas Center?
$95,854. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $246,800. Median gross rent is $1,120 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Dallas Center businesses?
2 7(a) approvals totalling $1.3 m, across 2 lenders, median approval $1,175,000, plus 2 504 approvals worth $488,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Dallas Center, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Dallas Center borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Dallas Center. 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 Dallas Center figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Dallas 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 Dallas Center.
Is zoning published for Dallas Center?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.