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Escanaba city, Michigan: commercial real estate data.
Escanaba city is a Census city of 12,354 people across 12.74 square miles of land, in Delta County. Median household income is $45,369, 63.9 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 18 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $17.4 m.
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Escanaba
What Escanaba is
- Census place typecity
- Land area12.74 sq mi
- Water area3.62 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land969
- County holding the largest share of its areaDelta 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.
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How many people live in Escanaba
- Population12,354
- Median age44.4
- Population under 182,495
- Share under 1820.2 percent
- Population 65 and over2,873
- Share 65 and over23.3 percent
- Households5,715
- Family households2,775
- Share of households that are families48.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Escanaba
- Median household income$45,369
- Per capita income$32,014
- Civilian labor force5,214
- Employed4,941
- Unemployed273 plus or minus 146
- Unemployment rate5.2 percent plus or minus 2.8
- Adults 25 and over8,835
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher89.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher19.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree6.1 percent plus or minus 1.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Escanaba
- Housing units6,464
- Occupied units5,715
- Vacant units749 plus or minus 220
- Vacancy rate11.6 percent plus or minus 3.4
- Owner occupied3,653
- Renter occupied2,062
- Ownership rate63.9 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$125,200
- Median gross rent, monthly$657
- Annual rent as a share of median income17.4 percent
- Single family units4,266
- Share single family66.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more1,849
- Share in buildings of two or more28.6 percent
- Mobile homes349 plus or minus 105
- Median year structure built1952
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Escanaba gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute4,575
- Commuting under 15 minutes3,575
- Share commuting under 15 minutes78.1 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more295 plus or minus 110
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more6.4 percent plus or minus 2.4
- Drove alone76.8 percent
- Carpooled10.5 percent plus or minus 3.2
- Public transport0.8 percent plus or minus 0.7
- Walked3.0 percent plus or minus 1.8
- Worked from home6.1 percent plus or minus 2.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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SBA loans in Escanaba (7(a))
- Approvals18
- Gross approval$17,398,200
- Average approval$966,567
- Median approval$648,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$2,100,000
- Largest approval$5,000,000
- Jobs supported191
- Jobs per approval10.6
- Loans with a final outcome6
- Paid in full6
- Charged off0
- Median term144 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more33.3 percent
- Share to franchises38.9 percent
- Distinct lenders11
- Distinct industries by NAICS12
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 6 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.
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Flood risk in Escanaba
- Listed NFIP communities2
- Of those, participating2
- NFIP community number260387
- Currently effective map date03/07/23
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.
Delta County, not Escanaba
Delta County context, not Escanaba figures
These are Delta County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Escanaba measurements.
- Establishments in Delta County991
- Employment at those establishments, Delta County11,596
- Covered employment, Delta County13,848
- Average annual pay, Delta County$47,978
- Average weekly wage, Delta County$923
- Housing units permitted, Delta County38
- Of those, single family, Delta County36
- County product, 2024, Delta County$1,635,247,000
- County product change over the prior year, Delta County5.8 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Delta County$57,176
Every figure in this section is published for Delta County as a whole and is not a measurement of Escanaba. 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
Escanaba questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Escanaba, Michigan?
12,354, in 5,715 households. Escanaba city covers 12.74 square miles of land, which is 969 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Escanaba in?
Delta 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 Escanaba?
$45,369. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $125,200. Median gross rent is $657 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Escanaba businesses?
18 7(a) approvals totalling $17.4 m, across 11 lenders, median approval $648,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Escanaba, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Escanaba borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Escanaba. only 6 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 Escanaba in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Escanaba appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 260387, 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 Escanaba figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Delta 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 Escanaba.
Is zoning published for Escanaba?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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