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Ecorse city, Michigan: commercial real estate data.
Ecorse city is a Census city of 9,064 people across 2.84 square miles of land, in Wayne County. Median household income is $40,241, 62.2 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 5 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.8 m.
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Ecorse
What Ecorse is
- Census place typecity
- Land area2.84 sq mi
- Water area0.81 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land3,195
- County holding the largest share of its areaWayne 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.
Ecorse
How many people live in Ecorse
- Population9,064
- Median age34.9
- Population under 182,294 plus or minus 471
- Share under 1825.3 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Population 65 and over1,405
- Share 65 and over15.5 percent
- Households3,614
- Family households1,951
- Share of households that are families54.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Ecorse
Income and work in Ecorse
- Median household income$40,241
- Per capita income$21,276
- Civilian labor force3,597
- Employed3,302
- Unemployed295 plus or minus 157
- Unemployment rate8.2 percent plus or minus 4.3
- Adults 25 and over6,007
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher70.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher8.4 percent plus or minus 2.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree2.9 percent plus or minus 2.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Ecorse
Housing in Ecorse
- Housing units4,121
- Occupied units3,614
- Vacant units507 plus or minus 163
- Vacancy rate12.3 percent plus or minus 3.8
- Owner occupied2,247
- Renter occupied1,367
- Ownership rate62.2 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$65,400
- Median gross rent, monthly$840
- Annual rent as a share of median income25.0 percent
- Single family units2,993
- Share single family72.6 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more882 plus or minus 247
- Share in buildings of two or more21.4 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Mobile homes246 plus or minus 217
- Median year structure built1954
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Ecorse
How Ecorse gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute2,902
- Commuting under 15 minutes701 plus or minus 281
- Share commuting under 15 minutes24.2 percent plus or minus 8.6
- Commuting 30 minutes or more911 plus or minus 296
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more31.4 percent plus or minus 8.3
- Drove alone74.8 percent
- Carpooled8.3 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Public transport1.1 percent plus or minus 1.0
- Walked3.6 percent plus or minus 3.0
- Worked from home11.3 percent plus or minus 7.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Ecorse
SBA 7(a) lending to Ecorse borrowers
- Approvals5
- Gross approval$1,847,800
- Average approval$369,560
- Median approval$300,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,100,000
- Largest approval$1,100,000
- Jobs supported20
- Jobs per approval4.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term186 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more40.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders4
- Distinct industries by NAICS5
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.
Ecorse
Flood programme status in Ecorse
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number260223
- Currently effective map date10/21/21
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.
Wayne County, not Ecorse
Wayne County context, not Ecorse figures
These are Wayne County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Ecorse measurements.
- Establishments in Wayne County33,699
- Employment at those establishments, Wayne County665,558
- Covered employment, Wayne County725,504
- Average annual pay, Wayne County$76,411
- Average weekly wage, Wayne County$1,469
- Housing units permitted, Wayne County2,629
- Of those, single family, Wayne County1,058
- County product, 2024, Wayne County$129,920,105,000
- County product change over the prior year, Wayne County3.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Wayne County$60,504
Every figure in this section is published for Wayne County as a whole and is not a measurement of Ecorse. 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
Ecorse questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Ecorse, Michigan?
9,064, in 3,614 households. Ecorse city covers 2.84 square miles of land, which is 3,195 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Ecorse in?
Wayne 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 Ecorse?
$40,241. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $65,400. Median gross rent is $840 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Ecorse businesses?
5 7(a) approvals totalling $1.8 m, across 4 lenders, median approval $300,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Ecorse, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Ecorse borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Ecorse. 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 Ecorse in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Ecorse appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 260223, 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 Ecorse figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Wayne 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 Ecorse.
Is zoning published for Ecorse?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.