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Sterling city, Kansas: commercial real estate data.
Sterling city is a Census city of 2,411 people across 1.87 square miles of land, in Rice County. Median household income is $54,922, 75.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $575,000.
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Sterling
What Sterling is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.87 sq mi
- Water area0.04 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,293
- County holding the largest share of its areaRice 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.
Sterling
How many people live in Sterling
- Population2,411
- Median age29.4
- Population under 18491 plus or minus 102
- Share under 1820.4 percent
- Population 65 and over413 plus or minus 97
- Share 65 and over17.1 percent plus or minus 3.7
- Households835
- Family households515
- Share of households that are families61.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sterling
Income and work in Sterling
- Median household income$54,922
- Per capita income$30,174 plus or minus $6,228
- Civilian labor force1,191
- Employed1,162
- Unemployed29 plus or minus 29
- Unemployment rate2.4 percent plus or minus 2.4
- Adults 25 and over1,316
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher95.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher39.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree15.2 percent plus or minus 5.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sterling
Housing in Sterling
- Housing units952
- Occupied units835
- Vacant units117 plus or minus 62
- Vacancy rate12.3 percent plus or minus 6.4
- Owner occupied631
- Renter occupied204 plus or minus 67
- Ownership rate75.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$133,000 plus or minus $30,593
- Median gross rent, monthly$689
- Annual rent as a share of median income15.1 percent
- Single family units854
- Share single family89.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more81 plus or minus 48
- Share in buildings of two or more8.5 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Mobile homes17 plus or minus 14
- Median year structure built1955
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sterling
How Sterling gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,042
- Commuting under 15 minutes638
- Share commuting under 15 minutes61.2 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more233 plus or minus 72
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more22.4 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Drove alone71.4 percent
- Carpooled6.3 percent plus or minus 4.4
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked12.1 percent plus or minus 4.3
- Worked from home7.9 percent plus or minus 4.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sterling
SBA 7(a) lending to Sterling borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$575,000
- Average approval$575,000
- Median approval$575,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$575,000
- Largest approval$575,000
- Jobs supported2
- Jobs per approval2.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term116 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.
Rice County, not Sterling
Rice County context, not Sterling figures
These are Rice County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Sterling measurements.
- Establishments in Rice County265
- Employment at those establishments, Rice County2,285
- Covered employment, Rice County3,769
- Average annual pay, Rice County$50,565
- Average weekly wage, Rice County$972
- Housing units permitted, Rice County9
- Of those, single family, Rice County6
- County product, 2024, Rice County$949,357,000
- County product change over the prior year, Rice County3.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Rice County$49,218
Every figure in this section is published for Rice County as a whole and is not a measurement of Sterling. 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
Sterling questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Sterling, Kansas?
2,411, in 835 households. Sterling city covers 1.87 square miles of land, which is 1,293 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Sterling in?
Rice 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 Sterling?
$54,922. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $133,000. Median gross rent is $689 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Sterling businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $575,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $575,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Sterling, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Sterling borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Sterling. 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 Sterling figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Rice 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 Sterling.
Is zoning published for Sterling?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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