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Bad Axe city, Michigan: commercial real estate data.
Bad Axe city is a Census city of 2,992 people across 2.33 square miles of land, in Huron County. Median household income is $44,688, 57.4 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 8 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $426,000.
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Bad Axe
What Bad Axe is
- Census place typecity
- Land area2.33 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,283
- County holding the largest share of its areaHuron 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.
Bad Axe
How many people live in Bad Axe
- Population2,992
- Median age48.6
- Population under 18500 plus or minus 129
- Share under 1816.7 percent plus or minus 4.3
- Population 65 and over791
- Share 65 and over26.4 percent
- Households1,355
- Family households645
- Share of households that are families47.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bad Axe
Income and work in Bad Axe
- Median household income$44,688 plus or minus $10,657
- Per capita income$28,740
- Civilian labor force1,266
- Employed1,195
- Unemployed71 plus or minus 47
- Unemployment rate5.6 percent plus or minus 3.7
- Adults 25 and over2,364
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher87.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher22.1 percent plus or minus 6.3
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree7.0 percent plus or minus 3.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bad Axe
Housing in Bad Axe
- Housing units1,508
- Occupied units1,355
- Vacant units153 plus or minus 93
- Vacancy rate10.1 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Owner occupied778
- Renter occupied577
- Ownership rate57.4 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$125,200
- Median gross rent, monthly$742
- Annual rent as a share of median income19.9 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Single family units1,098
- Share single family72.8 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more391 plus or minus 139
- Share in buildings of two or more25.9 percent plus or minus 8.8
- Mobile homes19 plus or minus 19
- Median year structure built1961
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bad Axe
How Bad Axe gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,074
- Commuting under 15 minutes575 plus or minus 150
- Share commuting under 15 minutes53.5 percent plus or minus 12.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more263 plus or minus 116
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more24.5 percent plus or minus 10.3
- Drove alone75.8 percent
- Carpooled9.2 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Public transport2.0 percent plus or minus 2.6
- Walked5.0 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Worked from home8.0 percent plus or minus 5.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bad Axe
SBA 7(a) lending to Bad Axe borrowers
- Approvals8
- Gross approval$426,000
- Average approval$53,250
- Median approval$39,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$180,000
- Largest approval$180,000
- Jobs supported11
- Jobs per approval1.4
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- 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 NAICS6
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.
Bad Axe
Flood programme status in Bad Axe
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating0
- NFIP community number260703
- Currently effective map date12/02/08
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.
Huron County, not Bad Axe
Huron County context, not Bad Axe figures
These are Huron County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Bad Axe measurements.
- Establishments in Huron County933
- Employment at those establishments, Huron County10,758
- Covered employment, Huron County11,234
- Average annual pay, Huron County$50,295
- Average weekly wage, Huron County$967
- Housing units permitted, Huron County64
- Of those, single family, Huron County64
- County product, 2024, Huron County$2,157,937,000
- County product change over the prior year, Huron County7.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Huron County$57,901
Every figure in this section is published for Huron County as a whole and is not a measurement of Bad Axe. 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
Bad Axe questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Bad Axe, Michigan?
2,992, in 1,355 households. Bad Axe city covers 2.33 square miles of land, which is 1,283 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Bad Axe in?
Huron 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 Bad Axe?
$44,688. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $125,200. Median gross rent is $742 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Bad Axe businesses?
8 7(a) approvals totalling $426,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $39,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Bad Axe, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Bad Axe borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Bad Axe. 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.
Is Bad Axe in the National Flood Insurance Program?
It is listed but not shown as participating. Bad Axe appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 260703, 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 Bad Axe figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Huron 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 Bad Axe.
Is zoning published for Bad Axe?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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