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Kanawha city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Kanawha city is a Census city of 756 people across 1.98 square miles of land, in Hancock County. Median household income is $68,250, 78.3 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $275,000.
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Kanawha
What Kanawha is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.98 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land381 plus or minus 89
- County holding the largest share of its areaHancock 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.
Kanawha
How many people live in Kanawha
- Population756 plus or minus 176
- Median age36.4
- Population under 18131 plus or minus 56
- Share under 1817.3 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Population 65 and over135 plus or minus 34
- Share 65 and over17.9 percent
- Households364 plus or minus 79
- Family households198 plus or minus 48
- Share of households that are families54.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Kanawha
Income and work in Kanawha
- Median household income$68,250 plus or minus $28,343
- Per capita income$37,373
- Civilian labor force451 plus or minus 131
- Employed445 plus or minus 131
- Unemployed6 plus or minus 6
- Unemployment rate1.3 percent plus or minus 1.3
- Adults 25 and over500 plus or minus 109
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher94.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher26.6 percent plus or minus 16.0
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree1.6 percent plus or minus 2.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Kanawha
Housing in Kanawha
- Housing units451
- Occupied units364 plus or minus 79
- Vacant units87 plus or minus 35
- Vacancy rate19.3 percent plus or minus 7.1
- Owner occupied285 plus or minus 66
- Renter occupied79 plus or minus 39
- Ownership rate78.3 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$77,600
- Median gross rent, monthly$575 plus or minus $145
- Annual rent as a share of median income10.1 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Single family units395
- Share single family87.6 percent plus or minus 20.5
- Units in buildings of two or more56 plus or minus 37
- Share in buildings of two or more12.4 percent plus or minus 7.9
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1956
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Kanawha
How Kanawha gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute431 plus or minus 129
- Commuting under 15 minutes154 plus or minus 60
- Share commuting under 15 minutes35.7 percent plus or minus 8.8
- Commuting 30 minutes or more123 plus or minus 72
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more28.5 percent plus or minus 14.4
- Drove alone77.1 percent
- Carpooled11.9 percent plus or minus 12.3
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked6.3 percent plus or minus 3.8
- Worked from home3.1 percent plus or minus 2.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Kanawha
SBA loans in Kanawha (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$275,000
- Average approval$275,000
- Median approval$275,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$275,000
- Largest approval$275,000
- Jobs supported7
- Jobs per approval7.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more100.0 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.
Hancock County, not Kanawha
Hancock County context, not Kanawha figures
These are Hancock County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Kanawha measurements.
- Establishments in Hancock County302
- Employment at those establishments, Hancock County3,643
- Covered employment, Hancock County5,982
- Average annual pay, Hancock County$59,900
- Average weekly wage, Hancock County$1,152
- Housing units permitted, Hancock County13
- Of those, single family, Hancock County7
- County product, 2024, Hancock County$1,204,021,000
- County product change over the prior year, Hancock County5.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Hancock County$48,569
Every figure in this section is published for Hancock County as a whole and is not a measurement of Kanawha. 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
Kanawha questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Kanawha, Iowa?
756, in 364 households. Kanawha city covers 1.98 square miles of land, which is 381 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Kanawha in?
Hancock 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 Kanawha?
$68,250. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $77,600. Median gross rent is $575 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Kanawha businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $275,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $275,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Kanawha, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Kanawha borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Kanawha. 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 Kanawha figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Hancock 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 Kanawha.
Is zoning published for Kanawha?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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