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Good Thunder city, Minnesota: commercial real estate data.
Good Thunder city is a Census city of 456 people across 0.63 square miles of land, in Blue Earth County. Median household income is $81,667, 88.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $163,300.
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Good Thunder
What Good Thunder is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.63 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land728
- County holding the largest share of its areaBlue Earth 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.
Good Thunder
How many people live in Good Thunder
- Population456
- Median age52.2
- Population under 1876 plus or minus 30
- Share under 1816.7 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Population 65 and over87 plus or minus 25
- Share 65 and over19.1 percent plus or minus 4.7
- Households220 plus or minus 52
- Family households105 plus or minus 21
- Share of households that are families47.7 percent plus or minus 14.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Good Thunder
- Median household income$81,667 plus or minus $22,244
- Per capita income$41,980 plus or minus $8,787
- Civilian labor force263 plus or minus 57
- Employed257 plus or minus 56
- Unemployed6 plus or minus 5
- Unemployment rate2.3 percent plus or minus 1.8
- Adults 25 and over352
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher98.3 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher16.2 percent plus or minus 4.0
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree2.8 percent plus or minus 3.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Good Thunder
- Housing units239 plus or minus 52
- Occupied units220 plus or minus 52
- Vacant units19 plus or minus 17
- Vacancy rate7.9 percent plus or minus 6.9
- Owner occupied195 plus or minus 53
- Renter occupied25 plus or minus 14
- Ownership rate88.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$178,700
- Single family units213 plus or minus 54
- Share single family89.1 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more22 plus or minus 19
- Share in buildings of two or more9.2 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Mobile homes4 plus or minus 4
- Median year structure built1953
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Good Thunder gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute236 plus or minus 55
- Commuting under 15 minutes16 plus or minus 9
- Share commuting under 15 minutes6.8 percent plus or minus 3.7
- Commuting 30 minutes or more80 plus or minus 22
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more33.9 percent
- Drove alone83.5 percent
- Carpooled5.1 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked2.0 percent plus or minus 1.9
- Worked from home7.1 percent plus or minus 2.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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SBA loans in Good Thunder (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$163,300
- Average approval$163,300
- Median approval$163,300
- Ninetieth percentile approval$163,300
- Largest approval$163,300
- Jobs supported3
- Jobs per approval3.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more100.0 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.
Blue Earth County, not Good Thunder
Blue Earth County context, not Good Thunder figures
These are Blue Earth County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Good Thunder measurements.
- Establishments in Blue Earth County1,992
- Employment at those establishments, Blue Earth County35,883
- Covered employment, Blue Earth County41,255
- Average annual pay, Blue Earth County$56,997
- Average weekly wage, Blue Earth County$1,096
- Housing units permitted, Blue Earth County271
- Of those, single family, Blue Earth County81
- County product, 2024, Blue Earth County$5,640,718,000
- County product change over the prior year, Blue Earth County7.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Blue Earth County$64,024
Every figure in this section is published for Blue Earth County as a whole and is not a measurement of Good Thunder. 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
Good Thunder questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Good Thunder, Minnesota?
456, in 220 households. Good Thunder city covers 0.63 square miles of land, which is 728 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Good Thunder in?
Blue Earth 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 Good Thunder?
$81,667. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $178,700. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Good Thunder businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $163,300, across 1 lenders, median approval $163,300. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Good Thunder, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Good Thunder borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Good Thunder. 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 Good Thunder figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Blue Earth 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 Good Thunder.
Is zoning published for Good Thunder?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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