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Sabula city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Sabula city is a Census city of 547 people across 0.50 square miles of land, in Jackson County. Median household income is $77,656, 76.0 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 2 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $85,000.
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Sabula
What Sabula is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.5 sq mi
- Water area0.96 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,096 plus or minus 272
- County holding the largest share of its areaJackson 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.
Sabula
How many people live in Sabula
- Population547 plus or minus 136
- Median age50.9 plus or minus 15.6
- Population under 18106 plus or minus 48
- Share under 1819.4 percent plus or minus 7.3
- Population 65 and over149 plus or minus 37
- Share 65 and over27.2 percent
- Households250 plus or minus 54
- Family households153 plus or minus 42
- Share of households that are families61.2 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sabula
Income and work in Sabula
- Median household income$77,656 plus or minus $24,066
- Per capita income$35,294
- Civilian labor force254 plus or minus 82
- Employed248 plus or minus 82
- Unemployed6 plus or minus 8
- Unemployment rate2.4 percent plus or minus 3.1
- Adults 25 and over420 plus or minus 92
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher95.5 percent plus or minus 27.8
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher7.4 percent plus or minus 4.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree1.4 percent plus or minus 2.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sabula
Housing in Sabula
- Housing units308 plus or minus 67
- Occupied units250 plus or minus 54
- Vacant units58 plus or minus 36
- Vacancy rate18.8 percent plus or minus 10.9
- Owner occupied190 plus or minus 47
- Renter occupied60 plus or minus 31
- Ownership rate76.0 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$133,300 plus or minus $41,680
- Median gross rent, monthly$950 plus or minus $382
- Annual rent as a share of median income14.7 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Single family units234 plus or minus 56
- Share single family76.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more41 plus or minus 31
- Share in buildings of two or more13.3 percent plus or minus 9.7
- Mobile homes33 plus or minus 22
- Median year structure built1938
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sabula
How Sabula gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute219 plus or minus 75
- Commuting under 15 minutes48 plus or minus 26
- Share commuting under 15 minutes21.9 percent plus or minus 9.4
- Commuting 30 minutes or more113 plus or minus 47
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more51.6 percent plus or minus 12.0
- Drove alone87.6 percent
- Carpooled6.0 percent plus or minus 7.4
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home6.4 percent plus or minus 6.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sabula
SBA loans in Sabula (7(a))
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$85,000
- Average approval$42,500
- Median approval$50,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$50,000
- Largest approval$50,000
- Jobs supported4
- Jobs per approval2.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 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.
Jackson County, not Sabula
Jackson County context, not Sabula figures
These are Jackson County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Sabula measurements.
- Establishments in Jackson County515
- Employment at those establishments, Jackson County4,717
- Covered employment, Jackson County5,869
- Average annual pay, Jackson County$45,236
- Average weekly wage, Jackson County$870
- Housing units permitted, Jackson County23
- Of those, single family, Jackson County23
- County product, 2024, Jackson County$906,681,000
- County product change over the prior year, Jackson County6.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Jackson County$59,573
Every figure in this section is published for Jackson County as a whole and is not a measurement of Sabula. 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
Sabula questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Sabula, Iowa?
547, in 250 households. Sabula city covers 0.50 square miles of land, which is 1,096 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Sabula in?
Jackson 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 Sabula?
$77,656. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $133,300. Median gross rent is $950 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Sabula businesses?
2 7(a) approvals totalling $85,000, across 2 lenders, median approval $50,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Sabula, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Sabula borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Sabula. 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 Sabula figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Jackson 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 Sabula.
Is zoning published for Sabula?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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