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Bates City city, Missouri: commercial real estate data.
Bates City city is a Census city of 162 people across 1.08 square miles of land, in Lafayette County. Median household income is $88,750, 73.0 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 3 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $495,500.
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Bates City
What Bates City is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.08 sq mi
- Water area0.05 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land150 plus or minus 53
- County holding the largest share of its areaLafayette 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.
Bates City
How many people live in Bates City
- Population162 plus or minus 57
- Median age44.5 plus or minus 10.2
- Population under 1824 plus or minus 18
- Share under 1814.8 percent plus or minus 10.0
- Population 65 and over32 plus or minus 19
- Share 65 and over19.8 percent plus or minus 9.6
- Households63 plus or minus 22
- Family households47 plus or minus 21
- Share of households that are families74.6 percent plus or minus 20.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bates City
Income and work in Bates City
- Median household income$88,750 plus or minus $25,060
- Per capita income$38,249 plus or minus $13,129
- Civilian labor force86 plus or minus 43
- Employed78 plus or minus 40
- Unemployed8 plus or minus 9
- Unemployment rate9.3 percent plus or minus 9.4
- Adults 25 and over113 plus or minus 42
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher94.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher14.2 percent plus or minus 14.1
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.5 percent plus or minus 11.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Bates City
- Housing units80 plus or minus 25
- Occupied units63 plus or minus 22
- Vacant units17 plus or minus 14
- Vacancy rate21.3 percent plus or minus 16.2
- Owner occupied46 plus or minus 18
- Renter occupied17 plus or minus 13
- Ownership rate73.0 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$218,800 plus or minus $54,803
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,292 plus or minus $260
- Annual rent as a share of median income17.5 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Single family units53 plus or minus 19
- Share single family66.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more8 plus or minus 14
- Share in buildings of two or more10.0 percent plus or minus 17.5
- Mobile homes19 plus or minus 15
- Median year structure built1978
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Bates City gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute71 plus or minus 37
- Commuting under 15 minutes4 plus or minus 13
- Share commuting under 15 minutes5.6 percent plus or minus 18.1
- Commuting 30 minutes or more34 plus or minus 20
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more47.9 percent plus or minus 13.5
- Drove alone83.3 percent plus or minus 17.4
- Carpooled7.7 percent plus or minus 10.8
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home9.0 percent plus or minus 9.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bates City
SBA loans in Bates City (7(a))
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$495,500
- Average approval$165,167
- Median approval$200,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$250,000
- Largest approval$250,000
- Jobs supported24
- Jobs per approval8.0
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders2
- Distinct industries by NAICS2
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 1 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.
Lafayette County, not Bates City
Lafayette County context, not Bates City figures
These are Lafayette County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Bates City measurements.
- Establishments in Lafayette County732
- Employment at those establishments, Lafayette County6,755
- Covered employment, Lafayette County8,809
- Average annual pay, Lafayette County$44,138
- Average weekly wage, Lafayette County$849
- Housing units permitted, Lafayette County121
- Of those, single family, Lafayette County91
- County product, 2024, Lafayette County$1,157,596,000
- County product change over the prior year, Lafayette County2.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Lafayette County$54,485
Every figure in this section is published for Lafayette County as a whole and is not a measurement of Bates City. 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
Bates City questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Bates City, Missouri?
162, in 63 households. Bates City city covers 1.08 square miles of land, which is 150 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Bates City in?
Lafayette 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 Bates City?
$88,750. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $218,800. Median gross rent is $1,292 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Bates City businesses?
3 7(a) approvals totalling $495,500, across 2 lenders, median approval $200,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Bates City, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Bates City borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Bates City. only 1 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 Bates City figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Lafayette 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 Bates City.
Is zoning published for Bates City?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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