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Baxter city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Baxter city is a Census city of 1,247 people across 0.65 square miles of land, in Jasper County. Median household income is $60,952, 74.4 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 4 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $148,000.
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Baxter
What Baxter is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.65 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,908
- County holding the largest share of its areaJasper 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.
Baxter
How many people live in Baxter
- Population1,247
- Median age33.9
- Population under 18382 plus or minus 90
- Share under 1830.6 percent
- Population 65 and over250 plus or minus 64
- Share 65 and over20.0 percent
- Households476
- Family households279 plus or minus 56
- Share of households that are families58.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Baxter
Income and work in Baxter
- Median household income$60,952
- Per capita income$30,929
- Civilian labor force588 plus or minus 126
- Employed574 plus or minus 122
- Unemployed14 plus or minus 18
- Unemployment rate2.4 percent plus or minus 3.0
- Adults 25 and over765
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher92.0 percent plus or minus 21.2
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher17.6 percent plus or minus 4.1
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree6.5 percent plus or minus 2.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Baxter
Housing in Baxter
- Housing units507
- Occupied units476
- Vacant units31 plus or minus 25
- Vacancy rate6.1 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Owner occupied354
- Renter occupied122 plus or minus 52
- Ownership rate74.4 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$166,700
- Median gross rent, monthly$900 plus or minus $206
- Annual rent as a share of median income17.7 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Single family units417
- Share single family82.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more85 plus or minus 43
- Share in buildings of two or more16.8 percent plus or minus 8.1
- Mobile homes5 plus or minus 7
- Median year structure built1969
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Baxter
How Baxter gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute527 plus or minus 115
- Commuting under 15 minutes138 plus or minus 56
- Share commuting under 15 minutes26.2 percent plus or minus 9.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more294 plus or minus 74
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more55.8 percent
- Drove alone83.9 percent
- Carpooled5.1 percent plus or minus 3.0
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked3.2 percent plus or minus 2.6
- Worked from home6.9 percent plus or minus 4.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Baxter
SBA loans in Baxter (7(a))
- Approvals4
- Gross approval$148,000
- Average approval$37,000
- Median approval$25,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$76,000
- Largest approval$76,000
- Jobs supported27
- Jobs per approval6.8
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term60 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders2
- Distinct industries by NAICS3
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.
Jasper County, not Baxter
Jasper County context, not Baxter figures
These are Jasper County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Baxter measurements.
- Establishments in Jasper County767
- Employment at those establishments, Jasper County7,469
- Covered employment, Jasper County10,453
- Average annual pay, Jasper County$49,910
- Average weekly wage, Jasper County$960
- Housing units permitted, Jasper County15
- Of those, single family, Jasper County11
- County product, 2024, Jasper County$1,522,980,000
- County product change over the prior year, Jasper County1.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Jasper County$54,400
Every figure in this section is published for Jasper County as a whole and is not a measurement of Baxter. 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
Baxter questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Baxter, Iowa?
1,247, in 476 households. Baxter city covers 0.65 square miles of land, which is 1,908 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Baxter in?
Jasper 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 Baxter?
$60,952. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $166,700. Median gross rent is $900 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Baxter businesses?
4 7(a) approvals totalling $148,000, across 2 lenders, median approval $25,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Baxter, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Baxter borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Baxter. 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 Baxter figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Jasper 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 Baxter.
Is zoning published for Baxter?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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