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Brewer city, Maine: commercial real estate data.
Brewer city is a Census city of 9,652 people across 15.24 square miles of land, in Penobscot County. Median household income is $66,613, 59.7 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 13 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $4.8 m.
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Brewer
What Brewer is
- Census place typecity
- Land area15.24 sq mi
- Water area0.45 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land633
- County holding the largest share of its areaPenobscot 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.
Brewer
How many people live in Brewer
- Population9,652
- Median age40.1
- Population under 182,020 plus or minus 413
- Share under 1820.9 percent plus or minus 4.3
- Population 65 and over2,163
- Share 65 and over22.4 percent
- Households4,250
- Family households2,433
- Share of households that are families57.2 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brewer
Income and work in Brewer
- Median household income$66,613
- Per capita income$40,180
- Civilian labor force4,502
- Employed4,437
- Unemployed65 plus or minus 44
- Unemployment rate1.4 percent plus or minus 1.0
- Adults 25 and over6,904
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher95.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher35.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree13.8 percent plus or minus 3.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brewer
Housing in Brewer
- Housing units4,402
- Occupied units4,250
- Vacant units152 plus or minus 104
- Vacancy rate3.5 percent plus or minus 2.3
- Owner occupied2,536
- Renter occupied1,714
- Ownership rate59.7 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$245,300
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,086
- Annual rent as a share of median income19.6 percent
- Single family units2,584
- Share single family58.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more1,732 plus or minus 361
- Share in buildings of two or more39.3 percent
- Mobile homes86 plus or minus 93
- Median year structure built1959
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brewer
How Brewer gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute4,078
- Commuting under 15 minutes2,222
- Share commuting under 15 minutes54.5 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more460 plus or minus 175
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more11.3 percent plus or minus 4.1
- Drove alone80.4 percent
- Carpooled11.1 percent plus or minus 4.0
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.9 percent plus or minus 1.0
- Worked from home6.9 percent plus or minus 2.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brewer
SBA 7(a) lending to Brewer borrowers
- Approvals13
- Gross approval$4,799,000
- Average approval$369,154
- Median approval$144,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,530,000
- Largest approval$1,530,000
- Jobs supported76
- Jobs per approval5.8
- Loans with a final outcome3
- Paid in full3
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises15.4 percent
- Distinct lenders7
- Distinct industries by NAICS11
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 3 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.
Brewer
SBA 504 lending to Brewer borrowers
- Approvals6
- Gross approval$2,258,000
- Average approval$376,333
- Median approval$321,000
- Largest approval$966,000
- Jobs supported56
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Distinct CDCs3
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Penobscot County, not Brewer
Penobscot County context, not Brewer figures
These are Penobscot County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Brewer measurements.
- Establishments in Penobscot County4,222
- Employment at those establishments, Penobscot County60,749
- Covered employment, Penobscot County71,983
- Average annual pay, Penobscot County$55,593
- Average weekly wage, Penobscot County$1,069
- Housing units permitted, Penobscot County450
- Of those, single family, Penobscot County367
- County product, 2024, Penobscot County$9,643,476,000
- County product change over the prior year, Penobscot County5.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Penobscot County$55,736
Every figure in this section is published for Penobscot County as a whole and is not a measurement of Brewer. 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
Brewer questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Brewer, Maine?
9,652, in 4,250 households. Brewer city covers 15.24 square miles of land, which is 633 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Brewer in?
Penobscot 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 Brewer?
$66,613. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $245,300. Median gross rent is $1,086 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Brewer businesses?
13 7(a) approvals totalling $4.8 m, across 7 lenders, median approval $144,000, plus 6 504 approvals worth $2.3 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Brewer, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Brewer borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Brewer. only 3 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 Brewer figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Penobscot 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 Brewer.
Is zoning published for Brewer?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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