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Elkhorn City city, Kentucky: commercial real estate data.
Elkhorn City city is a Census city of 846 people across 7.83 square miles of land, in Pike County. Median household income is $44,000, 69.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 5 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $349,600.
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Elkhorn City
What Elkhorn City is
- Census place typecity
- Land area7.83 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land108 plus or minus 26
- County holding the largest share of its areaPike 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.
Elkhorn City
How many people live in Elkhorn City
- Population846 plus or minus 206
- Median age53.3
- Population under 1870 plus or minus 34
- Share under 188.3 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Population 65 and over223 plus or minus 72
- Share 65 and over26.4 percent plus or minus 5.5
- Households382 plus or minus 109
- Family households179 plus or minus 51
- Share of households that are families46.9 percent plus or minus 18.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Elkhorn City
Income and work in Elkhorn City
- Median household income$44,000 plus or minus $15,496
- Per capita income$26,850
- Civilian labor force330 plus or minus 116
- Employed272 plus or minus 95
- Unemployed58 plus or minus 39
- Unemployment rate17.6 percent plus or minus 10.1
- Adults 25 and over719 plus or minus 191
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher84.4 percent plus or minus 30.3
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher25.0 percent plus or minus 8.7
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree8.5 percent plus or minus 4.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Elkhorn City
Housing in Elkhorn City
- Housing units523 plus or minus 129
- Occupied units382 plus or minus 109
- Vacant units141 plus or minus 68
- Vacancy rate27.0 percent plus or minus 11.2
- Owner occupied266 plus or minus 79
- Renter occupied116 plus or minus 67
- Ownership rate69.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$116,700 plus or minus $33,963
- Median gross rent, monthly$605
- Annual rent as a share of median income16.5 percent plus or minus 6.4
- Single family units295 plus or minus 90
- Share single family56.4 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more165 plus or minus 82
- Share in buildings of two or more31.5 percent plus or minus 13.6
- Mobile homes63 plus or minus 42
- Median year structure built1976
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Elkhorn City
How Elkhorn City gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute271 plus or minus 93
- Commuting under 15 minutes111 plus or minus 75
- Share commuting under 15 minutes41.0 percent plus or minus 24.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more118 plus or minus 56
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more43.5 percent plus or minus 14.5
- Drove alone76.0 percent plus or minus 21.7
- Carpooled24.0 percent plus or minus 22.5
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Elkhorn City
SBA 7(a) lending to Elkhorn City borrowers
- Approvals5
- Gross approval$349,600
- Average approval$69,920
- Median approval$30,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$200,000
- Largest approval$200,000
- Jobs supported4
- Jobs per approval0.8
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term60 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more20.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders2
- Distinct industries by NAICS5
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 1 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.
Pike County, not Elkhorn City
Pike County context, not Elkhorn City figures
These are Pike County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Elkhorn City measurements.
- Establishments in Pike County1,109
- Employment at those establishments, Pike County16,918
- Covered employment, Pike County20,549
- Average annual pay, Pike County$51,529
- Average weekly wage, Pike County$991
- Housing units permitted, Pike County5
- Of those, single family, Pike County5
- County product, 2024, Pike County$2,665,475,000
- County product change over the prior year, Pike County2.4 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Pike County$39,412
Every figure in this section is published for Pike County as a whole and is not a measurement of Elkhorn City. 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
Elkhorn City questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Elkhorn City, Kentucky?
846, in 382 households. Elkhorn City city covers 7.83 square miles of land, which is 108 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Elkhorn City in?
Pike 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 Elkhorn City?
$44,000. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $116,700. Median gross rent is $605 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Elkhorn City businesses?
5 7(a) approvals totalling $349,600, across 2 lenders, median approval $30,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Elkhorn City, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Elkhorn City borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Elkhorn City. only 1 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 Elkhorn City figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Pike 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 Elkhorn City.
Is zoning published for Elkhorn City?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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