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Elgin city, Kansas: commercial real estate data.
Elgin city is a Census city of 72 people across 0.19 square miles of land, in Chautauqua County. 100.0 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Elgin
What Elgin is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.19 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land369 plus or minus 154
- County holding the largest share of its areaChautauqua 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.
Elgin
How many people live in Elgin
- Population72 plus or minus 30
- Median age46.8 plus or minus 17.0
- Population under 187 plus or minus 13
- Share under 189.7 percent plus or minus 17.6
- Population 65 and over18 plus or minus 19
- Share 65 and over25.0 percent plus or minus 23.9
- Households32 plus or minus 18
- Family households26 plus or minus 16
- Share of households that are families81.3 percent plus or minus 20.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Elgin
Income and work in Elgin
- Per capita income$19,910 plus or minus $6,605
- Civilian labor force29 plus or minus 19
- Employed25 plus or minus 20
- Unemployed4 plus or minus 7
- Unemployment rate13.8 percent plus or minus 22.4
- Adults 25 and over62 plus or minus 26
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher82.3 percent plus or minus 19.7
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher6.5 percent plus or minus 20.9
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Elgin
Housing in Elgin
- Housing units44 plus or minus 19
- Occupied units32 plus or minus 18
- Vacant units12 plus or minus 11
- Vacancy rate27.3 percent plus or minus 22.1
- Owner occupied32 plus or minus 18
- Renter occupied0
- Ownership rate100.0 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$17,000 plus or minus $3,850
- Single family units34 plus or minus 18
- Share single family77.3 percent plus or minus 23.2
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes10 plus or minus 11
- Median year structure built1947
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Elgin
How Elgin gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute16 plus or minus 12
- Commuting under 15 minutes3 plus or minus 12
- Share commuting under 15 minutes18.8 percent plus or minus 74.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more10 plus or minus 15
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more62.5 percent plus or minus 80.2
- Drove alone36.0 percent plus or minus 38.4
- Carpooled16.0 percent plus or minus 20.3
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked12.0 percent plus or minus 17.5
- Worked from home36.0 percent plus or minus 38.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chautauqua County, not Elgin
Chautauqua County context, not Elgin figures
These are Chautauqua County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Elgin measurements.
- Establishments in Chautauqua County69
- Employment at those establishments, Chautauqua County501
- Covered employment, Chautauqua County754
- Average annual pay, Chautauqua County$35,811
- Average weekly wage, Chautauqua County$689
- Housing units permitted, Chautauqua County0
- Of those, single family, Chautauqua County0
- County product, 2024, Chautauqua County$101,001,000
- County product change over the prior year, Chautauqua County-10.4 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Chautauqua County$46,500
Every figure in this section is published for Chautauqua County as a whole and is not a measurement of Elgin. 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.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- The American Community Survey does not publish a median household income for this place, which happens where the sample is too small to support one.
- 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
Elgin questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Elgin, Kansas?
72, in 32 households. Elgin city covers 0.19 square miles of land, which is 369 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Elgin in?
Chautauqua County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
Are the county figures on this page Elgin figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Chautauqua 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 Elgin.
Is zoning published for Elgin?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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