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Dexter city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Dexter city is a Census city of 620 people across 1.25 square miles of land, in Dallas County. Median household income is $87,250, 82.4 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $20,000.
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Dexter
What Dexter is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.25 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land495 plus or minus 111
- 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.
Dexter
How many people live in Dexter
- Population620 plus or minus 139
- Median age38.7
- Population under 18166 plus or minus 52
- Share under 1826.8 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Population 65 and over102 plus or minus 30
- Share 65 and over16.5 percent
- Households233
- Family households154 plus or minus 32
- Share of households that are families66.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dexter
Income and work in Dexter
- Median household income$87,250 plus or minus $19,477
- Per capita income$38,983
- Civilian labor force348 plus or minus 89
- Employed335 plus or minus 83
- Unemployed13 plus or minus 15
- Unemployment rate3.7 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Adults 25 and over414
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher98.6 percent plus or minus 24.6
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher18.4 percent plus or minus 6.3
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.6 percent plus or minus 3.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dexter
Housing in Dexter
- Housing units255
- Occupied units233
- Vacant units22 plus or minus 20
- Vacancy rate8.6 percent plus or minus 7.7
- Owner occupied192
- Renter occupied41 plus or minus 19
- Ownership rate82.4 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$163,500
- Median gross rent, monthly$845
- Annual rent as a share of median income11.6 percent plus or minus 3.3
- Single family units239
- Share single family93.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more11 plus or minus 15
- Share in buildings of two or more4.3 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Mobile homes5 plus or minus 6
- Median year structure built1942
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dexter
How Dexter gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute294 plus or minus 81
- Commuting under 15 minutes57 plus or minus 37
- Share commuting under 15 minutes19.4 percent plus or minus 11.3
- Commuting 30 minutes or more175 plus or minus 48
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more59.5 percent
- Drove alone71.9 percent
- Carpooled11.3 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked1.5 percent plus or minus 1.8
- Worked from home12.2 percent plus or minus 4.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dexter
SBA 7(a) lending to Dexter borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$20,000
- Average approval$20,000
- Median approval$20,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$20,000
- Largest approval$20,000
- 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.
Dallas County, not Dexter
Dallas County context, not Dexter 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 Dexter 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 Dexter. 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
Dexter questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Dexter, Iowa?
620, in 233 households. Dexter city covers 1.25 square miles of land, which is 495 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Dexter 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 Dexter?
$87,250. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $163,500. Median gross rent is $845 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Dexter businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $20,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $20,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Dexter, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Dexter borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Dexter. 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 Dexter 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 Dexter.
Is zoning published for Dexter?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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