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Harper Woods city, Michigan: commercial real estate data.
Harper Woods city is a Census city of 15,116 people across 2.63 square miles of land, in Wayne County. Median household income is $65,022, 67.1 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 8 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.4 m.
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Harper Woods
What Harper Woods is
- Census place typecity
- Land area2.63 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land5,749
- 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.
Harper Woods
How many people live in Harper Woods
- Population15,116
- Median age37.1
- Population under 184,250
- Share under 1828.1 percent
- Population 65 and over2,156
- Share 65 and over14.3 percent
- Households5,595
- Family households3,158
- Share of households that are families56.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Harper Woods
Income and work in Harper Woods
- Median household income$65,022
- Per capita income$30,520
- Civilian labor force7,345
- Employed6,825
- Unemployed520 plus or minus 182
- Unemployment rate7.1 percent plus or minus 2.4
- Adults 25 and over9,768
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher91.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher26.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree9.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Harper Woods
Housing in Harper Woods
- Housing units5,961
- Occupied units5,595
- Vacant units366 plus or minus 139
- Vacancy rate6.1 percent plus or minus 2.3
- Owner occupied3,757
- Renter occupied1,838
- Ownership rate67.1 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$157,200
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,351
- Annual rent as a share of median income24.9 percent
- Single family units5,111
- Share single family85.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more822 plus or minus 237
- Share in buildings of two or more13.8 percent plus or minus 3.9
- Mobile homes28 plus or minus 50
- Median year structure built1955
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Harper Woods
How Harper Woods gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute5,638
- Commuting under 15 minutes1,175 plus or minus 309
- Share commuting under 15 minutes20.8 percent plus or minus 5.1
- Commuting 30 minutes or more2,200
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more39.0 percent
- Drove alone66.9 percent
- Carpooled15.4 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Public transport1.2 percent plus or minus 0.9
- Walked0.2 percent plus or minus 0.3
- Worked from home12.6 percent plus or minus 3.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Harper Woods
SBA loans in Harper Woods (7(a))
- Approvals8
- Gross approval$1,368,600
- Average approval$171,075
- Median approval$150,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$370,000
- Largest approval$370,000
- Jobs supported33
- Jobs per approval4.1
- 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 NAICS7
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.
Wayne County, not Harper Woods
Wayne County context, not Harper Woods 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 Harper Woods 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 Harper Woods. 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.
- 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
Harper Woods questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Harper Woods, Michigan?
15,116, in 5,595 households. Harper Woods city covers 2.63 square miles of land, which is 5,749 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Harper Woods 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 Harper Woods?
$65,022. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $157,200. Median gross rent is $1,351 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Harper Woods businesses?
8 7(a) approvals totalling $1.4 m, across 3 lenders, median approval $150,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Harper Woods, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Harper Woods borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Harper Woods. 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 Harper Woods 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 Harper Woods.
Is zoning published for Harper Woods?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.