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Earling city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Earling city is a Census city of 478 people across 0.63 square miles of land, in Shelby County. Median household income is $43,750, 76.1 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $67,700.
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Earling
What Earling is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.63 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land761 plus or minus 164
- County holding the largest share of its areaShelby 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.
Earling
How many people live in Earling
- Population478 plus or minus 103
- Median age41.5 plus or minus 11.1
- Population under 18106 plus or minus 37
- Share under 1822.2 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Population 65 and over108 plus or minus 40
- Share 65 and over22.6 percent plus or minus 6.8
- Households218 plus or minus 46
- Family households114 plus or minus 41
- Share of households that are families52.3 percent plus or minus 15.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Earling
Income and work in Earling
- Median household income$43,750 plus or minus $13,158
- Per capita income$28,531
- Civilian labor force209 plus or minus 57
- Employed198 plus or minus 51
- Unemployed11 plus or minus 17
- Unemployment rate5.3 percent plus or minus 8.0
- Adults 25 and over312 plus or minus 64
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher94.9 percent plus or minus 26.6
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher26.9 percent plus or minus 8.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree7.4 percent plus or minus 4.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Earling
Housing in Earling
- Housing units227 plus or minus 48
- Occupied units218 plus or minus 46
- Vacant units9 plus or minus 12
- Vacancy rate4.0 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Owner occupied166 plus or minus 38
- Renter occupied52 plus or minus 26
- Ownership rate76.1 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$125,000 plus or minus $34,525
- Median gross rent, monthly$815 plus or minus $163
- Annual rent as a share of median income22.4 percent plus or minus 8.1
- Single family units217 plus or minus 49
- Share single family95.6 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more10 plus or minus 13
- Share in buildings of two or more4.4 percent plus or minus 5.9
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1956
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Earling
How Earling gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute173 plus or minus 47
- Commuting under 15 minutes56 plus or minus 24
- Share commuting under 15 minutes32.4 percent plus or minus 11.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more36 plus or minus 24
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more20.8 percent plus or minus 12.6
- Drove alone83.7 percent
- Carpooled2.0 percent plus or minus 2.0
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.5 percent plus or minus 1.5
- Worked from home11.7 percent plus or minus 8.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Earling
SBA 7(a) lending to Earling borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$67,700
- Average approval$67,700
- Median approval$67,700
- Ninetieth percentile approval$67,700
- Largest approval$67,700
- Jobs supported2
- Jobs per approval2.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 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.
Shelby County, not Earling
Shelby County context, not Earling figures
These are Shelby County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Earling measurements.
- Establishments in Shelby County384
- Employment at those establishments, Shelby County5,049
- Covered employment, Shelby County5,460
- Average annual pay, Shelby County$51,072
- Average weekly wage, Shelby County$982
- Housing units permitted, Shelby County6
- Of those, single family, Shelby County6
- County product, 2024, Shelby County$1,051,016,000
- County product change over the prior year, Shelby County0.5 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Shelby County$50,616
Every figure in this section is published for Shelby County as a whole and is not a measurement of Earling. 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
Earling questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Earling, Iowa?
478, in 218 households. Earling city covers 0.63 square miles of land, which is 761 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Earling in?
Shelby 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 Earling?
$43,750. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $125,000. Median gross rent is $815 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Earling businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $67,700, across 1 lenders, median approval $67,700. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Earling, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Earling borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Earling. 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 Earling figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Shelby 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 Earling.
Is zoning published for Earling?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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