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Fayette city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Fayette city is a Census city of 1,309 people across 1.50 square miles of land, in Fayette County. Median household income is $47,917, 53.4 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Fayette
What Fayette is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.5 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land874
- County holding the largest share of its areaFayette 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.
Fayette
How many people live in Fayette
- Population1,309
- Median age23.4
- Population under 18148 plus or minus 45
- Share under 1811.3 percent plus or minus 3.2
- Population 65 and over182 plus or minus 61
- Share 65 and over13.9 percent plus or minus 4.4
- Households451
- Family households190 plus or minus 40
- Share of households that are families42.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fayette
Income and work in Fayette
- Median household income$47,917 plus or minus $15,829
- Per capita income$22,517
- Civilian labor force780
- Employed738
- Unemployed42 plus or minus 30
- Unemployment rate5.4 percent plus or minus 3.8
- Adults 25 and over631
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher95.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher32.6 percent plus or minus 8.4
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree10.9 percent plus or minus 4.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Fayette
- Housing units521
- Occupied units451
- Vacant units70 plus or minus 39
- Vacancy rate13.4 percent plus or minus 7.1
- Owner occupied241
- Renter occupied210 plus or minus 79
- Ownership rate53.4 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$119,000
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,347 plus or minus $792
- Annual rent as a share of median income33.7 percent plus or minus 22.8
- Single family units393 plus or minus 78
- Share single family75.4 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more107 plus or minus 43
- Share in buildings of two or more20.5 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Mobile homes21 plus or minus 12
- Median year structure built1951
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Fayette gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute651
- Commuting under 15 minutes418 plus or minus 114
- Share commuting under 15 minutes64.2 percent plus or minus 13.1
- Commuting 30 minutes or more84 plus or minus 42
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more12.9 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Drove alone71.3 percent
- Carpooled10.3 percent plus or minus 6.4
- Public transport1.0 percent plus or minus 2.0
- Walked9.2 percent plus or minus 3.8
- Worked from home8.3 percent plus or minus 4.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fayette
SBA 504 lending to Fayette borrowers
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$931,000
- Average approval$465,500
- Median approval$466,000
- Largest approval$466,000
- Jobs supported4
- Loans with a final outcome1
- 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.
Fayette County, not Fayette
Fayette County context, not Fayette figures
These are Fayette County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Fayette measurements.
- Establishments in Fayette County524
- Employment at those establishments, Fayette County5,706
- Covered employment, Fayette County6,964
- Average annual pay, Fayette County$48,847
- Average weekly wage, Fayette County$939
- Housing units permitted, Fayette County11
- Of those, single family, Fayette County9
- County product, 2024, Fayette County$1,074,991,000
- County product change over the prior year, Fayette County6.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Fayette County$48,126
Every figure in this section is published for Fayette County as a whole and is not a measurement of Fayette. 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
Fayette questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Fayette, Iowa?
1,309, in 451 households. Fayette city covers 1.50 square miles of land, which is 874 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Fayette in?
Fayette 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 Fayette?
$47,917. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $119,000. Median gross rent is $1,347 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Fayette figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Fayette 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 Fayette.
Is zoning published for Fayette?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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