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Vanceburg city, Kentucky: commercial real estate data.
Vanceburg city is a Census city of 1,482 people across 1.45 square miles of land, in Lewis County. Median household income is $30,054, 57.3 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $209,000.
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Vanceburg
What Vanceburg is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.45 sq mi
- Water area0.05 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,023
- County holding the largest share of its areaLewis 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.
Vanceburg
How many people live in Vanceburg
- Population1,482
- Median age49.7
- Population under 18237 plus or minus 98
- Share under 1816.0 percent plus or minus 5.9
- Population 65 and over345 plus or minus 86
- Share 65 and over23.3 percent
- Households675
- Family households308 plus or minus 94
- Share of households that are families45.6 percent plus or minus 12.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Vanceburg
Income and work in Vanceburg
- Median household income$30,054 plus or minus $8,410
- Per capita income$25,535 plus or minus $10,273
- Civilian labor force403 plus or minus 108
- Employed369 plus or minus 106
- Unemployed34 plus or minus 28
- Unemployment rate8.4 percent plus or minus 6.6
- Adults 25 and over1,119
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher73.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher9.9 percent plus or minus 5.1
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree5.6 percent plus or minus 4.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Vanceburg
Housing in Vanceburg
- Housing units785
- Occupied units675
- Vacant units110 plus or minus 64
- Vacancy rate14.0 percent plus or minus 7.9
- Owner occupied387 plus or minus 82
- Renter occupied288 plus or minus 82
- Ownership rate57.3 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$90,600 plus or minus $30,820
- Median gross rent, monthly$391 plus or minus $125
- Annual rent as a share of median income15.6 percent plus or minus 6.6
- Single family units500 plus or minus 107
- Share single family63.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more195 plus or minus 69
- Share in buildings of two or more24.8 percent plus or minus 7.9
- Mobile homes80 plus or minus 38
- Median year structure built1978
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Vanceburg
How Vanceburg gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute358 plus or minus 105
- Commuting under 15 minutes220 plus or minus 80
- Share commuting under 15 minutes61.5 percent plus or minus 13.3
- Commuting 30 minutes or more129 plus or minus 62
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more36.0 percent plus or minus 13.8
- Drove alone83.5 percent
- Carpooled11.6 percent plus or minus 11.7
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked1.6 percent plus or minus 2.4
- Worked from home3.2 percent plus or minus 2.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Vanceburg
SBA loans in Vanceburg (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$209,000
- Average approval$209,000
- Median approval$209,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$209,000
- Largest approval$209,000
- Jobs supported16
- Jobs per approval16.0
- 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 franchises100.0 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.
Lewis County, not Vanceburg
Lewis County context, not Vanceburg figures
These are Lewis County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Vanceburg measurements.
- Establishments in Lewis County114
- Employment at those establishments, Lewis County1,190
- Covered employment, Lewis County1,972
- Average annual pay, Lewis County$41,450
- Average weekly wage, Lewis County$797
- Housing units permitted, Lewis County0
- Of those, single family, Lewis County0
- County product, 2024, Lewis County$251,788,000
- County product change over the prior year, Lewis County3.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Lewis County$34,784
Every figure in this section is published for Lewis County as a whole and is not a measurement of Vanceburg. 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
Vanceburg questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Vanceburg, Kentucky?
1,482, in 675 households. Vanceburg city covers 1.45 square miles of land, which is 1,023 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Vanceburg in?
Lewis 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 Vanceburg?
$30,054. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $90,600. Median gross rent is $391 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Vanceburg businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $209,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $209,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Vanceburg, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Vanceburg borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Vanceburg. 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 Vanceburg figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Lewis 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 Vanceburg.
Is zoning published for Vanceburg?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.