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Waukee city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Waukee city is a Census city of 29,236 people across 21.91 square miles of land, in Dallas County. Median household income is $101,029, 66.5 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 44 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $21.0 m.
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Waukee
What Waukee is
- Census place typecity
- Land area21.91 sq mi
- Water area0.09 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,335
- 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.
Waukee
How many people live in Waukee
- Population29,236
- Median age34.7
- Population under 187,958
- Share under 1827.2 percent
- Population 65 and over3,250
- Share 65 and over11.1 percent
- Households11,830
- Family households7,517
- Share of households that are families63.5 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Waukee
Income and work in Waukee
- Median household income$101,029
- Per capita income$55,193
- Civilian labor force16,897
- Employed16,302
- Unemployed595 plus or minus 262
- Unemployment rate3.5 percent plus or minus 1.5
- Adults 25 and over19,387
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher95.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher58.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree18.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Waukee
Housing in Waukee
- Housing units12,216
- Occupied units11,830
- Vacant units386 plus or minus 197
- Vacancy rate3.2 percent plus or minus 1.6
- Owner occupied7,868
- Renter occupied3,962
- Ownership rate66.5 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$350,500
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,383
- Annual rent as a share of median income16.4 percent
- Single family units8,433
- Share single family69.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more3,452
- Share in buildings of two or more28.3 percent
- Mobile homes331 plus or minus 179
- Median year structure built2011
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Waukee
How Waukee gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute12,429
- Commuting under 15 minutes3,831
- Share commuting under 15 minutes30.8 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more2,171
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more17.5 percent
- Drove alone71.0 percent
- Carpooled5.5 percent plus or minus 2.3
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.6 percent plus or minus 0.3
- Worked from home22.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Waukee
SBA 7(a) lending to Waukee borrowers
- Approvals44
- Gross approval$21,007,200
- Average approval$477,436
- Median approval$283,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,310,000
- Largest approval$2,814,500
- Jobs supported506
- Jobs per approval11.5
- Loans with a final outcome6
- Paid in full6
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more11.4 percent
- Share to franchises29.5 percent
- Distinct lenders23
- Distinct industries by NAICS28
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 6 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.
Waukee
SBA 504 lending to Waukee borrowers
- Approvals23
- Gross approval$19,270,000
- Average approval$837,826
- Median approval$540,000
- Largest approval$2,291,000
- Jobs supported251
- Loans with a final outcome7
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs5
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Dallas County, not Waukee
Dallas County context, not Waukee 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 Waukee 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 Waukee. 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
Waukee questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Waukee, Iowa?
29,236, in 11,830 households. Waukee city covers 21.91 square miles of land, which is 1,335 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Waukee 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 Waukee?
$101,029. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $350,500. Median gross rent is $1,383 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Waukee businesses?
44 7(a) approvals totalling $21.0 m, across 23 lenders, median approval $283,000, plus 23 504 approvals worth $19.3 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Waukee, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Waukee borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Waukee. only 6 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 Waukee 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 Waukee.
Is zoning published for Waukee?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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