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Sidney city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Sidney city is a Census city of 955 people across 1.37 square miles of land, in Fremont County. Median household income is $80,714, 78.4 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 2 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $260,000.
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Sidney
What Sidney is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.37 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land697
- County holding the largest share of its areaFremont 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.
Sidney
How many people live in Sidney
- Population955
- Median age44.6 plus or minus 14.6
- Population under 18181 plus or minus 46
- Share under 1819.0 percent
- Population 65 and over253 plus or minus 62
- Share 65 and over26.5 percent
- Households398
- Family households228 plus or minus 51
- Share of households that are families57.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sidney
Income and work in Sidney
- Median household income$80,714
- Per capita income$36,799
- Civilian labor force473 plus or minus 95
- Employed469 plus or minus 96
- Unemployed4 plus or minus 5
- Unemployment rate0.8 percent plus or minus 1.0
- Adults 25 and over685
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher91.4 percent plus or minus 22.3
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher15.8 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.5 percent plus or minus 2.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sidney
Housing in Sidney
- Housing units483
- Occupied units398
- Vacant units85 plus or minus 44
- Vacancy rate17.6 percent plus or minus 8.8
- Owner occupied312
- Renter occupied86 plus or minus 35
- Ownership rate78.4 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$125,300
- Median gross rent, monthly$750 plus or minus $163
- Annual rent as a share of median income11.2 percent plus or minus 3.1
- Single family units421
- Share single family87.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more45 plus or minus 27
- Share in buildings of two or more9.3 percent plus or minus 5.5
- Mobile homes17 plus or minus 17
- Median year structure built1966
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sidney
How Sidney gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute446 plus or minus 94
- Commuting under 15 minutes204 plus or minus 57
- Share commuting under 15 minutes45.7 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more130 plus or minus 54
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more29.1 percent plus or minus 10.4
- Drove alone83.3 percent
- Carpooled6.9 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked5.1 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Worked from home4.5 percent plus or minus 3.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sidney
SBA loans in Sidney (7(a))
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$260,000
- Average approval$130,000
- Median approval$150,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$150,000
- Largest approval$150,000
- Jobs supported9
- Jobs per approval4.5
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term181 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises50.0 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.
Fremont County, not Sidney
Fremont County context, not Sidney figures
These are Fremont County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Sidney measurements.
- Establishments in Fremont County190
- Employment at those establishments, Fremont County1,508
- Covered employment, Fremont County2,197
- Average annual pay, Fremont County$48,228
- Average weekly wage, Fremont County$927
- Housing units permitted, Fremont County5
- Of those, single family, Fremont County5
- County product, 2024, Fremont County$394,050,000
- County product change over the prior year, Fremont County-9.3 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Fremont County$45,048
Every figure in this section is published for Fremont County as a whole and is not a measurement of Sidney. 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
Sidney questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Sidney, Iowa?
955, in 398 households. Sidney city covers 1.37 square miles of land, which is 697 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Sidney in?
Fremont 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 Sidney?
$80,714. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $125,300. Median gross rent is $750 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Sidney businesses?
2 7(a) approvals totalling $260,000, across 2 lenders, median approval $150,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Sidney, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Sidney borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Sidney. 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 Sidney figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Fremont 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 Sidney.
Is zoning published for Sidney?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.