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Menlo city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Menlo city is a Census city of 398 people across 0.50 square miles of land, in Guthrie County. Median household income is $77,396, 88.5 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.5 m.
64 sourced place values · tier FULL · 7 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
Menlo
What Menlo is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.5 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land803 plus or minus 252
- County holding the largest share of its areaGuthrie 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.
Menlo
How many people live in Menlo
- Population398 plus or minus 125
- Median age43.6 plus or minus 10.7
- Population under 1874 plus or minus 41
- Share under 1818.6 percent plus or minus 8.4
- Population 65 and over64 plus or minus 23
- Share 65 and over16.1 percent
- Households157 plus or minus 41
- Family households105 plus or minus 35
- Share of households that are families66.9 percent plus or minus 13.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Menlo
Income and work in Menlo
- Median household income$77,396
- Per capita income$33,185
- Civilian labor force262 plus or minus 87
- Employed220 plus or minus 66
- Unemployed42 plus or minus 39
- Unemployment rate16.0 percent plus or minus 13.9
- Adults 25 and over257 plus or minus 72
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher92.6 percent plus or minus 33.2
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher8.6 percent plus or minus 6.4
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.4 percent plus or minus 4.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Menlo
Housing in Menlo
- Housing units192 plus or minus 51
- Occupied units157 plus or minus 41
- Vacant units35 plus or minus 22
- Vacancy rate18.2 percent plus or minus 10.4
- Owner occupied139 plus or minus 38
- Renter occupied18 plus or minus 13
- Ownership rate88.5 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$107,100
- Single family units168 plus or minus 47
- Share single family87.5 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more19 plus or minus 17
- Share in buildings of two or more9.9 percent plus or minus 8.7
- Mobile homes5 plus or minus 7
- Median year structure built1938
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Menlo
How Menlo gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute180 plus or minus 59
- Commuting under 15 minutes67 plus or minus 32
- Share commuting under 15 minutes37.2 percent plus or minus 12.6
- Commuting 30 minutes or more70 plus or minus 30
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more38.9 percent plus or minus 11.1
- Drove alone77.8 percent
- Carpooled4.4 percent plus or minus 3.7
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked6.4 percent plus or minus 6.6
- Worked from home11.3 percent plus or minus 7.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Menlo
SBA loans in Menlo (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$1,500,000
- Average approval$1,500,000
- Median approval$1,500,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,500,000
- Largest approval$1,500,000
- Jobs supported12
- Jobs per approval12.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term84 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.
Guthrie County, not Menlo
Guthrie County context, not Menlo figures
These are Guthrie County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Menlo measurements.
- Establishments in Guthrie County313
- Employment at those establishments, Guthrie County2,392
- Covered employment, Guthrie County3,271
- Average annual pay, Guthrie County$54,155
- Average weekly wage, Guthrie County$1,041
- Housing units permitted, Guthrie County26
- Of those, single family, Guthrie County24
- County product, 2024, Guthrie County$752,540,000
- County product change over the prior year, Guthrie County11.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Guthrie County$71,220
Every figure in this section is published for Guthrie County as a whole and is not a measurement of Menlo. 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.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- 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
Menlo questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Menlo, Iowa?
398, in 157 households. Menlo city covers 0.50 square miles of land, which is 803 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Menlo in?
Guthrie 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 Menlo?
$77,396. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $107,100. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Menlo businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $1.5 m, across 1 lenders, median approval $1,500,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Menlo, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Menlo borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Menlo. 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 Menlo figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Guthrie 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 Menlo.
Is zoning published for Menlo?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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