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Bear Lake village, Michigan: commercial real estate data.
Bear Lake village is a Census village of 264 people across 0.31 square miles of land, in Manistee County. Median household income is $63,281, 94.7 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $25,000.
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Bear Lake
What Bear Lake is
- Census place typevillage
- Land area0.31 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land851 plus or minus 222
- County holding the largest share of its areaManistee 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.
Bear Lake
How many people live in Bear Lake
- Population264 plus or minus 69
- Median age38.6
- Population under 1843 plus or minus 21
- Share under 1816.3 percent plus or minus 6.8
- Population 65 and over41 plus or minus 19
- Share 65 and over15.5 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Households95 plus or minus 19
- Family households67 plus or minus 16
- Share of households that are families70.5 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bear Lake
Income and work in Bear Lake
- Median household income$63,281
- Per capita income$28,075
- Civilian labor force158 plus or minus 53
- Employed139 plus or minus 47
- Unemployed19 plus or minus 15
- Unemployment rate12.0 percent plus or minus 8.6
- Adults 25 and over171 plus or minus 35
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher88.9 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher18.1 percent plus or minus 9.7
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree2.3 percent plus or minus 7.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bear Lake
Housing in Bear Lake
- Housing units143 plus or minus 29
- Occupied units95 plus or minus 19
- Vacant units48 plus or minus 28
- Vacancy rate33.6 percent plus or minus 18.4
- Owner occupied90 plus or minus 19
- Renter occupied5 plus or minus 5
- Ownership rate94.7 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$155,400 plus or minus $37,341
- Single family units123 plus or minus 29
- Share single family86.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more4 plus or minus 13
- Share in buildings of two or more2.8 percent plus or minus 9.1
- Mobile homes16 plus or minus 11
- Median year structure built1948
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Bear Lake gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute139 plus or minus 47
- Commuting under 15 minutes60 plus or minus 33
- Share commuting under 15 minutes43.2 percent plus or minus 18.9
- Commuting 30 minutes or more52 plus or minus 20
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more37.4 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Drove alone58.3 percent plus or minus 25.7
- Carpooled39.6 percent plus or minus 18.7
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked2.2 percent plus or minus 2.8
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bear Lake
SBA loans in Bear Lake (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$25,000
- Average approval$25,000
- Median approval$25,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$25,000
- Largest approval$25,000
- Jobs supported0
- Jobs per approval0.0
- 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.
Manistee County, not Bear Lake
Manistee County context, not Bear Lake figures
These are Manistee County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Bear Lake measurements.
- Establishments in Manistee County574
- Employment at those establishments, Manistee County5,667
- Covered employment, Manistee County7,281
- Average annual pay, Manistee County$51,233
- Average weekly wage, Manistee County$985
- Housing units permitted, Manistee County248
- Of those, single family, Manistee County104
- County product, 2024, Manistee County$1,160,259,000
- County product change over the prior year, Manistee County5.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Manistee County$62,877
Every figure in this section is published for Manistee County as a whole and is not a measurement of Bear Lake. 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.
- 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
Bear Lake questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Bear Lake, Michigan?
264, in 95 households. Bear Lake village covers 0.31 square miles of land, which is 851 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Bear Lake in?
Manistee 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 Bear Lake?
$63,281. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $155,400. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Bear Lake businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $25,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $25,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Bear Lake, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Bear Lake borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Bear Lake. 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.
Are the county figures on this page Bear Lake figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Manistee 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 Bear Lake.
Is zoning published for Bear Lake?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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