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Silver Lake city, Kansas: commercial real estate data.
Silver Lake city is a Census city of 1,553 people across 0.56 square miles of land, in Shawnee County. Median household income is $56,834, 73.1 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 2 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $30,000.
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Silver Lake
What Silver Lake is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.56 sq mi
- Water area0.03 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land2,760
- County holding the largest share of its areaShawnee 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.
Silver Lake
How many people live in Silver Lake
- Population1,553
- Median age39.3 plus or minus 11.0
- Population under 18388 plus or minus 96
- Share under 1825.0 percent
- Population 65 and over399 plus or minus 190
- Share 65 and over25.7 percent plus or minus 11.1
- Households761 plus or minus 201
- Family households479 plus or minus 181
- Share of households that are families62.9 percent plus or minus 17.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Silver Lake
Income and work in Silver Lake
- Median household income$56,834
- Per capita income$37,160
- Civilian labor force670 plus or minus 151
- Employed670 plus or minus 151
- Unemployed0
- Unemployment rate0.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over1,039 plus or minus 237
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher99.0 percent plus or minus 31.5
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher32.3 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree12.4 percent plus or minus 5.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Silver Lake
- Housing units772 plus or minus 201
- Occupied units761 plus or minus 201
- Vacant units11 plus or minus 17
- Vacancy rate1.4 percent plus or minus 2.2
- Owner occupied556 plus or minus 192
- Renter occupied205 plus or minus 63
- Ownership rate73.1 percent plus or minus 16.3
- Median owner-occupied home value$169,300
- Median gross rent, monthly$860
- Annual rent as a share of median income18.2 percent
- Single family units619 plus or minus 198
- Share single family80.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more142 plus or minus 53
- Share in buildings of two or more18.4 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Mobile homes11 plus or minus 14
- Median year structure built1972
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Silver Lake gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute577 plus or minus 129
- Commuting under 15 minutes168 plus or minus 71
- Share commuting under 15 minutes29.1 percent plus or minus 10.4
- Commuting 30 minutes or more117 plus or minus 59
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more20.3 percent plus or minus 9.1
- Drove alone79.6 percent
- Carpooled3.0 percent plus or minus 1.8
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked3.3 percent plus or minus 2.9
- Worked from home13.6 percent plus or minus 14.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Silver Lake
SBA loans in Silver Lake (7(a))
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$30,000
- Average approval$15,000
- Median approval$19,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$19,000
- Largest approval$19,000
- Jobs supported21
- Jobs per approval10.5
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term48 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.
Shawnee County, not Silver Lake
Shawnee County context, not Silver Lake figures
These are Shawnee County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Silver Lake measurements.
- Establishments in Shawnee County3,959
- Employment at those establishments, Shawnee County77,340
- Covered employment, Shawnee County99,247
- Average annual pay, Shawnee County$60,096
- Average weekly wage, Shawnee County$1,156
- Housing units permitted, Shawnee County218
- Of those, single family, Shawnee County153
- County product, 2024, Shawnee County$14,583,646,000
- County product change over the prior year, Shawnee County3.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Shawnee County$53,508
Every figure in this section is published for Shawnee County as a whole and is not a measurement of Silver Lake. 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
Silver Lake questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Silver Lake, Kansas?
1,553, in 761 households. Silver Lake city covers 0.56 square miles of land, which is 2,760 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Silver Lake in?
Shawnee 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 Silver Lake?
$56,834. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $169,300. Median gross rent is $860 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Silver Lake businesses?
2 7(a) approvals totalling $30,000, across 2 lenders, median approval $19,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Silver Lake, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Silver Lake borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Silver Lake. 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 Silver Lake figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Shawnee 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 Silver Lake.
Is zoning published for Silver Lake?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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