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Chassell CDP, Michigan: commercial real estate data.
Chassell CDP is a Census CDP of 899 people across 3.61 square miles of land, in Houghton County. Median household income is $54,148, 84.4 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 3 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $819,000.
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Chassell
What Chassell is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area3.61 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land249 plus or minus 51
- County holding the largest share of its areaHoughton 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.
Chassell
How many people live in Chassell
- Population899 plus or minus 185
- Median age49.4
- Population under 18172 plus or minus 59
- Share under 1819.1 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Population 65 and over201 plus or minus 56
- Share 65 and over22.4 percent
- Households435
- Family households201 plus or minus 55
- Share of households that are families46.2 percent plus or minus 9.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chassell
Income and work in Chassell
- Median household income$54,148 plus or minus $16,675
- Per capita income$44,805 plus or minus $9,727
- Civilian labor force410 plus or minus 91
- Employed404 plus or minus 91
- Unemployed6 plus or minus 6
- Unemployment rate1.5 percent plus or minus 1.4
- Adults 25 and over664
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher99.2 percent plus or minus 26.2
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher42.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree21.1 percent plus or minus 7.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chassell
Housing in Chassell
- Housing units569
- Occupied units435
- Vacant units134 plus or minus 73
- Vacancy rate23.6 percent plus or minus 12.0
- Owner occupied367 plus or minus 74
- Renter occupied68 plus or minus 37
- Ownership rate84.4 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$167,600
- Single family units507
- Share single family89.1 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more43 plus or minus 34
- Share in buildings of two or more7.6 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Mobile homes19 plus or minus 18
- Median year structure built1971
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chassell
How Chassell gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute348 plus or minus 81
- Commuting under 15 minutes102 plus or minus 46
- Share commuting under 15 minutes29.3 percent plus or minus 11.4
- Commuting 30 minutes or more31 plus or minus 20
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more8.9 percent plus or minus 5.4
- Drove alone74.8 percent
- Carpooled7.6 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Public transport2.3 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Walked3.8 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Worked from home11.5 percent plus or minus 8.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chassell
SBA 7(a) lending to Chassell borrowers
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$819,000
- Average approval$273,000
- Median approval$350,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$350,000
- Largest approval$350,000
- Jobs supported9
- Jobs per approval3.0
- 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 lenders3
- Distinct industries by NAICS3
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.
Chassell
Flood programme status in Chassell
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number260411
- Currently effective map date12/05/90
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.
Houghton County, not Chassell
Houghton County context, not Chassell figures
These are Houghton County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Chassell measurements.
- Establishments in Houghton County891
- Employment at those establishments, Houghton County9,246
- Covered employment, Houghton County12,124
- Average annual pay, Houghton County$54,867
- Average weekly wage, Houghton County$1,055
- Housing units permitted, Houghton County111
- Of those, single family, Houghton County103
- County product, 2024, Houghton County$1,588,874,000
- County product change over the prior year, Houghton County7.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Houghton County$64,949
Every figure in this section is published for Houghton County as a whole and is not a measurement of Chassell. 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.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- 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
Chassell questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Chassell, Michigan?
899, in 435 households. Chassell CDP covers 3.61 square miles of land, which is 249 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Chassell in?
Houghton 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 Chassell?
$54,148. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $167,600. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Chassell businesses?
3 7(a) approvals totalling $819,000, across 3 lenders, median approval $350,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Chassell, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Chassell borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Chassell. 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 Chassell in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Chassell appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 260411, 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 Chassell figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Houghton 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 Chassell.
Is zoning published for Chassell?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.