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Fenton city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Fenton city is a Census city of 290 people across 0.33 square miles of land, in Kossuth County. Median household income is $55,417, 91.0 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $350,000.
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Fenton
What Fenton is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.33 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land879 plus or minus 224
- County holding the largest share of its areaKossuth 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.
Fenton
How many people live in Fenton
- Population290 plus or minus 74
- Median age49.0 plus or minus 12.0
- Population under 1852 plus or minus 25
- Share under 1817.9 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Population 65 and over94 plus or minus 22
- Share 65 and over32.4 percent plus or minus 11.2
- Households144 plus or minus 34
- Family households89 plus or minus 30
- Share of households that are families61.8 percent plus or minus 14.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fenton
Income and work in Fenton
- Median household income$55,417
- Per capita income$32,556
- Civilian labor force152 plus or minus 44
- Employed137 plus or minus 40
- Unemployed15 plus or minus 16
- Unemployment rate9.9 percent plus or minus 10.1
- Adults 25 and over217 plus or minus 52
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher93.5 percent plus or minus 29.8
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher21.7 percent plus or minus 9.7
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree5.1 percent plus or minus 5.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fenton
Housing in Fenton
- Housing units177 plus or minus 36
- Occupied units144 plus or minus 34
- Vacant units33 plus or minus 22
- Vacancy rate18.6 percent plus or minus 11.8
- Owner occupied131 plus or minus 34
- Renter occupied13 plus or minus 9
- Ownership rate91.0 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$55,000
- Median gross rent, monthly$760
- Annual rent as a share of median income16.5 percent
- Single family units177 plus or minus 36
- Share single family100.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1950
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fenton
How Fenton gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute131 plus or minus 39
- Commuting under 15 minutes33 plus or minus 25
- Share commuting under 15 minutes25.2 percent plus or minus 17.6
- Commuting 30 minutes or more36 plus or minus 17
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more27.5 percent plus or minus 10.2
- Drove alone89.6 percent
- Carpooled5.2 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked1.5 percent plus or minus 2.2
- Worked from home3.0 percent plus or minus 5.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fenton
SBA 7(a) lending to Fenton borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$350,000
- Average approval$350,000
- Median approval$350,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$350,000
- Largest approval$350,000
- Jobs supported4
- Jobs per approval4.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term24 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.
Kossuth County, not Fenton
Kossuth County context, not Fenton figures
These are Kossuth County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Fenton measurements.
- Establishments in Kossuth County536
- Employment at those establishments, Kossuth County5,276
- Covered employment, Kossuth County6,565
- Average annual pay, Kossuth County$52,766
- Average weekly wage, Kossuth County$1,015
- Housing units permitted, Kossuth County9
- Of those, single family, Kossuth County9
- County product, 2024, Kossuth County$1,398,715,000
- County product change over the prior year, Kossuth County6.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Kossuth County$48,535
Every figure in this section is published for Kossuth County as a whole and is not a measurement of Fenton. 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
Fenton questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Fenton, Iowa?
290, in 144 households. Fenton city covers 0.33 square miles of land, which is 879 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Fenton in?
Kossuth 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 Fenton?
$55,417. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $55,000. Median gross rent is $760 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Fenton businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $350,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $350,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Fenton, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Fenton borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Fenton. 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 Fenton figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Kossuth 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 Fenton.
Is zoning published for Fenton?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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