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Palmer city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Palmer city is a Census city of 134 people across 0.42 square miles of land, in Pocahontas County. Median household income is $59,063, 88.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $5.0 m.
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Palmer
What Palmer is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.42 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land317 plus or minus 111
- County holding the largest share of its areaPocahontas 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.
Palmer
How many people live in Palmer
- Population134 plus or minus 47
- Median age52.9
- Population under 1814 plus or minus 18
- Share under 1810.4 percent plus or minus 12.6
- Population 65 and over44 plus or minus 19
- Share 65 and over32.8 percent plus or minus 7.7
- Households79 plus or minus 28
- Family households33 plus or minus 17
- Share of households that are families41.8 percent plus or minus 15.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Palmer
Income and work in Palmer
- Median household income$59,063
- Per capita income$42,588 plus or minus $14,131
- Civilian labor force63 plus or minus 27
- Employed62 plus or minus 27
- Unemployed1 plus or minus 4
- Unemployment rate1.6 percent plus or minus 6.3
- Adults 25 and over107 plus or minus 38
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher83.2 percent plus or minus 39.9
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher7.5 percent plus or minus 11.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.9 percent plus or minus 9.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Palmer
Housing in Palmer
- Housing units103 plus or minus 34
- Occupied units79 plus or minus 28
- Vacant units24 plus or minus 20
- Vacancy rate23.3 percent plus or minus 17.8
- Owner occupied70 plus or minus 25
- Renter occupied9 plus or minus 12
- Ownership rate88.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$39,600 plus or minus $13,396
- Single family units96 plus or minus 33
- Share single family93.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more7 plus or minus 16
- Share in buildings of two or more6.8 percent plus or minus 15.8
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1941
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Palmer
How Palmer gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute60 plus or minus 27
- Commuting under 15 minutes27 plus or minus 16
- Share commuting under 15 minutes45.0 percent plus or minus 16.7
- Commuting 30 minutes or more28 plus or minus 24
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more46.7 percent plus or minus 34.1
- Drove alone83.9 percent plus or minus 17.1
- Carpooled8.1 percent plus or minus 10.7
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked1.6 percent plus or minus 3.1
- Worked from home3.2 percent plus or minus 4.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Palmer
SBA loans in Palmer (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$5,000,000
- Average approval$5,000,000
- Median approval$5,000,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$5,000,000
- Largest approval$5,000,000
- Jobs supported38
- Jobs per approval38.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term180 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.
Pocahontas County, not Palmer
Pocahontas County context, not Palmer figures
These are Pocahontas County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Palmer measurements.
- Establishments in Pocahontas County200
- Employment at those establishments, Pocahontas County1,934
- Covered employment, Pocahontas County2,644
- Average annual pay, Pocahontas County$52,766
- Average weekly wage, Pocahontas County$1,015
- Housing units permitted, Pocahontas County5
- Of those, single family, Pocahontas County5
- County product, 2024, Pocahontas County$641,676,000
- County product change over the prior year, Pocahontas County-0.5 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Pocahontas County$41,122
Every figure in this section is published for Pocahontas County as a whole and is not a measurement of Palmer. 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.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- 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
Palmer questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Palmer, Iowa?
134, in 79 households. Palmer city covers 0.42 square miles of land, which is 317 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Palmer in?
Pocahontas 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 Palmer?
$59,063. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $39,600. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Palmer businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $5.0 m, across 1 lenders, median approval $5,000,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Palmer, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Palmer borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Palmer. 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 Palmer figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Pocahontas 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 Palmer.
Is zoning published for Palmer?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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