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Harper city, Kansas: commercial real estate data.
Harper city is a Census city of 1,136 people across 1.62 square miles of land, in Harper County. Median household income is $54,250, 63.4 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $326,400.
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Harper
What Harper is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.62 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land700
- County holding the largest share of its areaHarper 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.
Harper
How many people live in Harper
- Population1,136
- Median age37.6
- Population under 18226 plus or minus 54
- Share under 1819.9 percent
- Population 65 and over210 plus or minus 43
- Share 65 and over18.5 percent
- Households506
- Family households274 plus or minus 62
- Share of households that are families54.2 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Harper
Income and work in Harper
- Median household income$54,250 plus or minus $14,468
- Per capita income$30,284
- Civilian labor force528 plus or minus 119
- Employed524 plus or minus 118
- Unemployed4 plus or minus 5
- Unemployment rate0.8 percent plus or minus 0.9
- Adults 25 and over846
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher85.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher9.7 percent plus or minus 4.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.8 percent plus or minus 3.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Harper
Housing in Harper
- Housing units741
- Occupied units506
- Vacant units235 plus or minus 63
- Vacancy rate31.7 percent plus or minus 7.8
- Owner occupied321
- Renter occupied185 plus or minus 62
- Ownership rate63.4 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$78,600
- Median gross rent, monthly$805 plus or minus $220
- Annual rent as a share of median income17.8 percent plus or minus 6.8
- Single family units566
- Share single family76.4 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more119 plus or minus 48
- Share in buildings of two or more16.1 percent plus or minus 6.3
- Mobile homes56 plus or minus 36
- Median year structure built1957
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Harper
How Harper gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute493 plus or minus 116
- Commuting under 15 minutes315 plus or minus 85
- Share commuting under 15 minutes63.9 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more86 plus or minus 42
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more17.4 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Drove alone70.9 percent
- Carpooled16.8 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked3.2 percent plus or minus 2.3
- Worked from home2.4 percent plus or minus 2.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Harper
SBA 7(a) lending to Harper borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$326,400
- Average approval$326,400
- Median approval$326,400
- Ninetieth percentile approval$326,400
- Largest approval$326,400
- Jobs supported4
- Jobs per approval4.0
- 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.
Harper County, not Harper
Harper County context, not Harper figures
These are Harper County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Harper measurements.
- Establishments in Harper County185
- Employment at those establishments, Harper County1,855
- Covered employment, Harper County2,422
- Average annual pay, Harper County$47,237
- Average weekly wage, Harper County$908
- Housing units permitted, Harper County7
- Of those, single family, Harper County7
- County product, 2024, Harper County$420,939,000
- County product change over the prior year, Harper County10.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Harper County$48,382
Every figure in this section is published for Harper County as a whole and is not a measurement of Harper. 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
Harper questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Harper, Kansas?
1,136, in 506 households. Harper city covers 1.62 square miles of land, which is 700 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Harper in?
Harper 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 Harper?
$54,250. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $78,600. Median gross rent is $805 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Harper businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $326,400, across 1 lenders, median approval $326,400. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Harper, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Harper borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Harper. 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 Harper figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Harper 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 Harper.
Is zoning published for Harper?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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