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Cheney city, Kansas: commercial real estate data.
Cheney city is a Census city of 2,580 people across 2.32 square miles of land, in Sedgwick County. Median household income is $85,313, 78.0 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 4 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $5.5 m.
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Cheney
What Cheney is
- Census place typecity
- Land area2.32 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,113
- County holding the largest share of its areaSedgwick 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.
Cheney
How many people live in Cheney
- Population2,580
- Median age36.9
- Population under 18780 plus or minus 156
- Share under 1830.2 percent
- Population 65 and over410 plus or minus 114
- Share 65 and over15.9 percent plus or minus 4.4
- Households862
- Family households592
- Share of households that are families68.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cheney
Income and work in Cheney
- Median household income$85,313
- Per capita income$34,470
- Civilian labor force1,168
- Employed1,161
- Unemployed7 plus or minus 11
- Unemployment rate0.6 percent plus or minus 0.9
- Adults 25 and over1,602
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher94.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher32.8 percent plus or minus 7.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree6.7 percent plus or minus 3.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cheney
Housing in Cheney
- Housing units921
- Occupied units862
- Vacant units59 plus or minus 43
- Vacancy rate6.4 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Owner occupied672
- Renter occupied190 plus or minus 65
- Ownership rate78.0 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$167,900
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,051
- Annual rent as a share of median income14.8 percent
- Single family units809
- Share single family87.8 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more70 plus or minus 57
- Share in buildings of two or more7.6 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Mobile homes42 plus or minus 32
- Median year structure built1977
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cheney
How Cheney gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,058
- Commuting under 15 minutes342 plus or minus 95
- Share commuting under 15 minutes32.3 percent plus or minus 8.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more538 plus or minus 147
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more50.9 percent plus or minus 12.7
- Drove alone76.4 percent
- Carpooled9.6 percent plus or minus 6.6
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked1.7 percent plus or minus 2.1
- Worked from home8.9 percent plus or minus 3.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cheney
SBA loans in Cheney (7(a))
- Approvals4
- Gross approval$5,530,000
- Average approval$1,382,500
- Median approval$2,500,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$2,500,000
- Largest approval$2,500,000
- Jobs supported128
- Jobs per approval32.0
- 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 lenders2
- Distinct industries by NAICS2
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.
Sedgwick County, not Cheney
Sedgwick County context, not Cheney figures
These are Sedgwick County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Cheney measurements.
- Establishments in Sedgwick County12,710
- Employment at those establishments, Sedgwick County237,173
- Covered employment, Sedgwick County264,782
- Average annual pay, Sedgwick County$60,652
- Average weekly wage, Sedgwick County$1,166
- Housing units permitted, Sedgwick County2,620
- Of those, single family, Sedgwick County1,248
- County product, 2024, Sedgwick County$41,524,850,000
- County product change over the prior year, Sedgwick County3.8 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Sedgwick County$57,107
Every figure in this section is published for Sedgwick County as a whole and is not a measurement of Cheney. 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
Cheney questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Cheney, Kansas?
2,580, in 862 households. Cheney city covers 2.32 square miles of land, which is 1,113 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Cheney in?
Sedgwick 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 Cheney?
$85,313. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $167,900. Median gross rent is $1,051 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Cheney businesses?
4 7(a) approvals totalling $5.5 m, across 2 lenders, median approval $2,500,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Cheney, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Cheney borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Cheney. 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 Cheney figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Sedgwick 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 Cheney.
Is zoning published for Cheney?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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