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Cottonwood Falls city, Kansas: commercial real estate data.
Cottonwood Falls city is a Census city of 1,041 people across 0.64 square miles of land, in Chase County. Median household income is $50,750, 84.3 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $10,300.
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Cottonwood Falls
What Cottonwood Falls is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.64 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,616
- County holding the largest share of its areaChase 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.
Cottonwood Falls
How many people live in Cottonwood Falls
- Population1,041
- Median age40.2
- Population under 18189 plus or minus 47
- Share under 1818.2 percent plus or minus 3.8
- Population 65 and over257 plus or minus 80
- Share 65 and over24.7 percent plus or minus 6.9
- Households420
- Family households211 plus or minus 46
- Share of households that are families50.2 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cottonwood Falls
Income and work in Cottonwood Falls
- Median household income$50,750
- Per capita income$26,871
- Civilian labor force487
- Employed479
- Unemployed8 plus or minus 13
- Unemployment rate1.6 percent plus or minus 2.7
- Adults 25 and over793
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher89.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher23.0 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.2 percent plus or minus 2.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cottonwood Falls
Housing in Cottonwood Falls
- Housing units499
- Occupied units420
- Vacant units79 plus or minus 36
- Vacancy rate15.8 percent plus or minus 6.8
- Owner occupied354 plus or minus 82
- Renter occupied66 plus or minus 29
- Ownership rate84.3 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$85,100
- Median gross rent, monthly$838
- Annual rent as a share of median income19.8 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Single family units449
- Share single family90.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more16 plus or minus 15
- Share in buildings of two or more3.2 percent plus or minus 3.0
- Mobile homes34 plus or minus 22
- Median year structure built1953
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cottonwood Falls
How Cottonwood Falls gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute437
- Commuting under 15 minutes161 plus or minus 51
- Share commuting under 15 minutes36.8 percent plus or minus 9.9
- Commuting 30 minutes or more91 plus or minus 33
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more20.8 percent plus or minus 6.8
- Drove alone80.6 percent
- Carpooled8.3 percent plus or minus 6.9
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked4.0 percent plus or minus 2.9
- Worked from home7.0 percent plus or minus 5.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cottonwood Falls
SBA 7(a) lending to Cottonwood Falls borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$10,300
- Average approval$10,300
- Median approval$10,300
- Ninetieth percentile approval$10,300
- Largest approval$10,300
- Jobs supported2
- Jobs per approval2.0
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- 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 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.
Chase County, not Cottonwood Falls
Chase County context, not Cottonwood Falls figures
These are Chase County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Cottonwood Falls measurements.
- Establishments in Chase County60
- Employment at those establishments, Chase County460
- Covered employment, Chase County777
- Average annual pay, Chase County$43,605
- Average weekly wage, Chase County$839
- Housing units permitted, Chase County4
- Of those, single family, Chase County0
- County product, 2024, Chase County$146,841,000
- County product change over the prior year, Chase County-12.2 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Chase County$44,096
Every figure in this section is published for Chase County as a whole and is not a measurement of Cottonwood Falls. 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
Cottonwood Falls questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas?
1,041, in 420 households. Cottonwood Falls city covers 0.64 square miles of land, which is 1,616 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Cottonwood Falls in?
Chase 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 Cottonwood Falls?
$50,750. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $85,100. Median gross rent is $838 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Cottonwood Falls businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $10,300, across 1 lenders, median approval $10,300. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Cottonwood Falls, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Cottonwood Falls borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Cottonwood Falls. 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 Cottonwood Falls figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Chase 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 Cottonwood Falls.
Is zoning published for Cottonwood Falls?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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