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Packwood city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Packwood city is a Census city of 539 people across 0.75 square miles of land, in Jefferson County. Median household income is $51,500, 85.7 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 4 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $470,000.
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Packwood
What Packwood is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.75 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land720 plus or minus 338
- County holding the largest share of its areaJefferson 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.
Packwood
How many people live in Packwood
- Population539 plus or minus 253
- Median age36.3
- Population under 18199 plus or minus 90
- Share under 1836.9 percent plus or minus 24.1
- Population 65 and over68 plus or minus 41
- Share 65 and over12.6 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Households168 plus or minus 60
- Family households131 plus or minus 60
- Share of households that are families78.0 percent plus or minus 22.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Packwood
Income and work in Packwood
- Median household income$51,500 plus or minus $28,988
- Per capita income$19,833 plus or minus $7,032
- Civilian labor force237 plus or minus 104
- Employed191 plus or minus 72
- Unemployed46 plus or minus 40
- Unemployment rate19.4 percent plus or minus 14.6
- Adults 25 and over328 plus or minus 145
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher82.9 percent plus or minus 45.1
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher19.2 percent plus or minus 7.2
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.0 percent plus or minus 4.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Packwood
Housing in Packwood
- Housing units178 plus or minus 59
- Occupied units168 plus or minus 60
- Vacant units10 plus or minus 10
- Vacancy rate5.6 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Owner occupied144 plus or minus 59
- Renter occupied24 plus or minus 13
- Ownership rate85.7 percent plus or minus 17.2
- Median owner-occupied home value$80,000 plus or minus $38,461
- Median gross rent, monthly$722
- Annual rent as a share of median income16.8 percent plus or minus 9.5
- Single family units144 plus or minus 61
- Share single family80.9 percent plus or minus 21.2
- Units in buildings of two or more19 plus or minus 15
- Share in buildings of two or more10.7 percent plus or minus 7.9
- Mobile homes15 plus or minus 19
- Median year structure built1953
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Packwood
How Packwood gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute189 plus or minus 72
- Commuting under 15 minutes44 plus or minus 25
- Share commuting under 15 minutes23.3 percent plus or minus 10.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more24 plus or minus 21
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more12.7 percent plus or minus 10.2
- Drove alone92.7 percent
- Carpooled2.6 percent plus or minus 4.1
- Public transport3.7 percent plus or minus 4.5
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home1.0 percent plus or minus 1.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Packwood
SBA loans in Packwood (7(a))
- Approvals4
- Gross approval$470,000
- Average approval$117,500
- Median approval$170,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$200,000
- Largest approval$200,000
- Jobs supported7
- Jobs per approval1.8
- 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.
Jefferson County, not Packwood
Jefferson County context, not Packwood figures
These are Jefferson County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Packwood measurements.
- Establishments in Jefferson County608
- Employment at those establishments, Jefferson County6,922
- Covered employment, Jefferson County7,185
- Average annual pay, Jefferson County$53,535
- Average weekly wage, Jefferson County$1,030
- Housing units permitted, Jefferson County1
- Of those, single family, Jefferson County1
- County product, 2024, Jefferson County$911,305,000
- County product change over the prior year, Jefferson County-1.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Jefferson County$58,220
Every figure in this section is published for Jefferson County as a whole and is not a measurement of Packwood. 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
Packwood questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Packwood, Iowa?
539, in 168 households. Packwood city covers 0.75 square miles of land, which is 720 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Packwood in?
Jefferson 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 Packwood?
$51,500. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $80,000. Median gross rent is $722 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Packwood businesses?
4 7(a) approvals totalling $470,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $170,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Packwood, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Packwood borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Packwood. 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 Packwood figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Jefferson 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 Packwood.
Is zoning published for Packwood?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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