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Inkster city, Michigan: commercial real estate data.
Inkster city is a Census city of 25,428 people across 6.25 square miles of land, in Wayne County. Median household income is $39,252, 46.8 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 17 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $3.8 m.
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Inkster
What Inkster is
- Census place typecity
- Land area6.25 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land4,067
- 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.
Inkster
How many people live in Inkster
- Population25,428
- Median age35.0
- Population under 186,751
- Share under 1826.5 percent
- Population 65 and over3,114
- Share 65 and over12.2 percent
- Households9,750
- Family households5,688
- Share of households that are families58.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Inkster
Income and work in Inkster
- Median household income$39,252
- Per capita income$25,587
- Civilian labor force11,251
- Employed9,627
- Unemployed1,624 plus or minus 329
- Unemployment rate14.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over16,622
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher84.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher13.1 percent plus or minus 2.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.9 percent plus or minus 1.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Inkster
Housing in Inkster
- Housing units11,517
- Occupied units9,750
- Vacant units1,767
- Vacancy rate15.3 percent
- Owner occupied4,561
- Renter occupied5,189
- Ownership rate46.8 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$80,400
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,170
- Annual rent as a share of median income35.8 percent
- Single family units8,921
- Share single family77.5 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more2,442
- Share in buildings of two or more21.2 percent
- Mobile homes154 plus or minus 118
- Median year structure built1957
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Inkster
How Inkster gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute8,903
- Commuting under 15 minutes1,737 plus or minus 430
- Share commuting under 15 minutes19.5 percent plus or minus 4.5
- Commuting 30 minutes or more3,406
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more38.3 percent
- Drove alone76.7 percent
- Carpooled10.0 percent plus or minus 2.6
- Public transport3.5 percent plus or minus 2.0
- Walked1.4 percent plus or minus 1.5
- Worked from home5.9 percent plus or minus 2.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Inkster
SBA loans in Inkster (7(a))
- Approvals17
- Gross approval$3,823,000
- Average approval$224,882
- Median approval$127,500
- Ninetieth percentile approval$600,000
- Largest approval$1,280,500
- Jobs supported69
- Jobs per approval4.1
- Loans with a final outcome5
- Paid in full5
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more11.8 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders7
- Distinct industries by NAICS13
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 5 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.
Inkster
Flood risk in Inkster
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number260232
- Currently effective map date12/03/13
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 Inkster
Wayne County context, not Inkster 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 Inkster 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 Inkster. 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
Inkster questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Inkster, Michigan?
25,428, in 9,750 households. Inkster city covers 6.25 square miles of land, which is 4,067 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Inkster 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 Inkster?
$39,252. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $80,400. Median gross rent is $1,170 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Inkster businesses?
17 7(a) approvals totalling $3.8 m, across 7 lenders, median approval $127,500. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Inkster, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Inkster borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Inkster. only 5 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 Inkster in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Inkster appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 260232, 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 Inkster 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 Inkster.
Is zoning published for Inkster?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.