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Muscatine city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Muscatine city is a Census city of 23,489 people across 18.20 square miles of land, in Muscatine County. Median household income is $58,117, 66.5 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 17 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $8.6 m.
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Muscatine
What Muscatine is
- Census place typecity
- Land area18.2 sq mi
- Water area1.05 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,291
- County holding the largest share of its areaMuscatine 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.
Muscatine
How many people live in Muscatine
- Population23,489
- Median age37.0
- Population under 185,787
- Share under 1824.6 percent
- Population 65 and over4,139
- Share 65 and over17.6 percent
- Households9,640
- Family households5,769
- Share of households that are families59.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Muscatine
Income and work in Muscatine
- Median household income$58,117
- Per capita income$30,853
- Civilian labor force11,340
- Employed10,852
- Unemployed488 plus or minus 186
- Unemployment rate4.3 percent plus or minus 1.6
- Adults 25 and over15,483
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher89.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher21.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree5.6 percent plus or minus 1.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Muscatine
Housing in Muscatine
- Housing units10,411
- Occupied units9,640
- Vacant units771 plus or minus 298
- Vacancy rate7.4 percent plus or minus 2.9
- Owner occupied6,407
- Renter occupied3,233
- Ownership rate66.5 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$153,600
- Median gross rent, monthly$974
- Annual rent as a share of median income20.1 percent
- Single family units7,660
- Share single family73.6 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more2,246
- Share in buildings of two or more21.6 percent
- Mobile homes505 plus or minus 156
- Median year structure built1963
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Muscatine
How Muscatine gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute10,135
- Commuting under 15 minutes6,229
- Share commuting under 15 minutes61.5 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more1,536
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more15.2 percent
- Drove alone79.6 percent
- Carpooled10.1 percent plus or minus 2.3
- Public transport0.2 percent plus or minus 0.3
- Walked2.7 percent plus or minus 1.2
- Worked from home6.3 percent plus or minus 1.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Muscatine
SBA 7(a) lending to Muscatine borrowers
- Approvals17
- Gross approval$8,641,500
- Average approval$508,324
- Median approval$150,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$2,365,200
- Largest approval$3,200,000
- Jobs supported368
- Jobs per approval21.6
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more11.8 percent
- Share to franchises11.8 percent
- Distinct lenders7
- Distinct industries by NAICS15
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 1 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.
Muscatine
SBA 504 lending to Muscatine borrowers
- Approvals8
- Gross approval$5,321,000
- Average approval$665,125
- Median approval$469,000
- Largest approval$1,995,000
- Jobs supported46
- Loans with a final outcome3
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs4
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Muscatine County, not Muscatine
Muscatine County context, not Muscatine figures
These are Muscatine County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Muscatine measurements.
- Establishments in Muscatine County949
- Employment at those establishments, Muscatine County19,519
- Covered employment, Muscatine County21,234
- Average annual pay, Muscatine County$63,594
- Average weekly wage, Muscatine County$1,223
- Housing units permitted, Muscatine County77
- Of those, single family, Muscatine County30
- County product, 2024, Muscatine County$3,242,090,000
- County product change over the prior year, Muscatine County3.4 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Muscatine County$51,758
Every figure in this section is published for Muscatine County as a whole and is not a measurement of Muscatine. 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
Muscatine questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Muscatine, Iowa?
23,489, in 9,640 households. Muscatine city covers 18.20 square miles of land, which is 1,291 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Muscatine in?
Muscatine 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 Muscatine?
$58,117. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $153,600. Median gross rent is $974 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Muscatine businesses?
17 7(a) approvals totalling $8.6 m, across 7 lenders, median approval $150,000, plus 8 504 approvals worth $5.3 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Muscatine, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Muscatine borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Muscatine. only 1 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 Muscatine figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Muscatine 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 Muscatine.
Is zoning published for Muscatine?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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