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Athens village, Michigan: commercial real estate data.
Athens village is a Census village of 1,134 people across 1.00 square miles of land, in Calhoun County. Median household income is $70,192, 77.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $350,000.
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Athens
What Athens is
- Census place typevillage
- Land area1 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,131 plus or minus 230
- County holding the largest share of its areaCalhoun 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.
Athens
How many people live in Athens
- Population1,134 plus or minus 231
- Median age45.8
- Population under 18194 plus or minus 45
- Share under 1817.1 percent
- Population 65 and over193 plus or minus 74
- Share 65 and over17.0 percent plus or minus 5.6
- Households428 plus or minus 96
- Family households283
- Share of households that are families66.1 percent plus or minus 19.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Athens
Income and work in Athens
- Median household income$70,192
- Per capita income$34,588
- Civilian labor force626 plus or minus 178
- Employed611 plus or minus 171
- Unemployed15 plus or minus 19
- Unemployment rate2.4 percent plus or minus 3.0
- Adults 25 and over820 plus or minus 173
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher93.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher9.1 percent plus or minus 2.9
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.4 percent plus or minus 2.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Athens
Housing in Athens
- Housing units459 plus or minus 99
- Occupied units428 plus or minus 96
- Vacant units31 plus or minus 24
- Vacancy rate6.8 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Owner occupied332 plus or minus 89
- Renter occupied96 plus or minus 37
- Ownership rate77.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$157,000
- Median gross rent, monthly$978 plus or minus $272
- Annual rent as a share of median income16.7 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Single family units402 plus or minus 95
- Share single family87.6 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more48 plus or minus 29
- Share in buildings of two or more10.5 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Mobile homes9 plus or minus 8
- Median year structure built1961
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Athens
How Athens gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute534 plus or minus 126
- Commuting under 15 minutes57 plus or minus 24
- Share commuting under 15 minutes10.7 percent plus or minus 3.7
- Commuting 30 minutes or more289 plus or minus 79
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more54.1 percent
- Drove alone76.0 percent plus or minus 27.5
- Carpooled12.0 percent plus or minus 7.8
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.8 percent plus or minus 1.3
- Worked from home11.1 percent plus or minus 13.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Athens
SBA 7(a) lending to Athens borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$350,000
- Average approval$350,000
- Median approval$350,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$350,000
- Largest approval$350,000
- Jobs supported2
- Jobs per approval2.0
- 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 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.
Athens
Flood programme status in Athens
- Listed NFIP communities2
- Of those, participating2
- NFIP community number261056
- Currently effective map date04/04/11(M)
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Calhoun County, not Athens
Calhoun County context, not Athens figures
These are Calhoun County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Athens measurements.
- Establishments in Calhoun County2,482
- Employment at those establishments, Calhoun County48,331
- Covered employment, Calhoun County54,415
- Average annual pay, Calhoun County$64,067
- Average weekly wage, Calhoun County$1,232
- Housing units permitted, Calhoun County91
- Of those, single family, Calhoun County85
- County product, 2024, Calhoun County$9,106,912,000
- County product change over the prior year, Calhoun County5.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Calhoun County$49,383
Every figure in this section is published for Calhoun County as a whole and is not a measurement of Athens. 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.
- 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
Athens questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Athens, Michigan?
1,134, in 428 households. Athens village covers 1.00 square miles of land, which is 1,131 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Athens in?
Calhoun 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 Athens?
$70,192. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $157,000. Median gross rent is $978 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Athens businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $350,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $350,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Athens, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Athens borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Athens. 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.
Is Athens in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Athens appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 261056, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Athens figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Calhoun 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 Athens.
Is zoning published for Athens?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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