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Seneca city, Missouri: commercial real estate data.
Seneca city is a Census city of 1,906 people across 2.56 square miles of land, in Newton County. Median household income is $46,023, 64.2 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 2 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $798,000.
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Seneca
What Seneca is
- Census place typecity
- Land area2.56 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land745 plus or minus 165
- County holding the largest share of its areaNewton 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.
Seneca
How many people live in Seneca
- Population1,906 plus or minus 422
- Median age39.9 plus or minus 11.7
- Population under 18480 plus or minus 143
- Share under 1825.2 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Population 65 and over464 plus or minus 120
- Share 65 and over24.3 percent
- Households645
- Family households483 plus or minus 105
- Share of households that are families74.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Seneca
Income and work in Seneca
- Median household income$46,023 plus or minus $9,517
- Per capita income$23,008
- Civilian labor force729 plus or minus 204
- Employed723 plus or minus 205
- Unemployed6 plus or minus 9
- Unemployment rate0.8 percent plus or minus 1.2
- Adults 25 and over1,220
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher90.3 percent plus or minus 24.3
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher7.0 percent plus or minus 4.4
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.8 percent plus or minus 1.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Seneca
Housing in Seneca
- Housing units737
- Occupied units645
- Vacant units92 plus or minus 58
- Vacancy rate12.5 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Owner occupied414 plus or minus 85
- Renter occupied231 plus or minus 78
- Ownership rate64.2 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$132,600 plus or minus $38,056
- Median gross rent, monthly$902
- Annual rent as a share of median income23.5 percent plus or minus 5.5
- Single family units670
- Share single family90.9 percent plus or minus 21.3
- Units in buildings of two or more43 plus or minus 33
- Share in buildings of two or more5.8 percent plus or minus 4.3
- Mobile homes24 plus or minus 21
- Median year structure built1972
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Seneca
How Seneca gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute663 plus or minus 194
- Commuting under 15 minutes183 plus or minus 77
- Share commuting under 15 minutes27.6 percent plus or minus 8.4
- Commuting 30 minutes or more226 plus or minus 74
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more34.1 percent
- Drove alone70.9 percent
- Carpooled19.9 percent plus or minus 9.7
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.8 percent plus or minus 1.4
- Worked from home7.1 percent plus or minus 4.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Seneca
SBA 7(a) lending to Seneca borrowers
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$798,000
- Average approval$399,000
- Median approval$685,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$685,000
- Largest approval$685,000
- Jobs supported8
- Jobs per approval4.0
- 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 lenders2
- Distinct industries by NAICS2
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.
Newton County, not Seneca
Newton County context, not Seneca figures
These are Newton County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Seneca measurements.
- Establishments in Newton County1,251
- Employment at those establishments, Newton County22,540
- Covered employment, Newton County21,297
- Average annual pay, Newton County$53,349
- Average weekly wage, Newton County$1,026
- Housing units permitted, Newton County103
- Of those, single family, Newton County63
- County product, 2024, Newton County$3,081,772,000
- County product change over the prior year, Newton County6.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Newton County$52,566
Every figure in this section is published for Newton County as a whole and is not a measurement of Seneca. 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
Seneca questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Seneca, Missouri?
1,906, in 645 households. Seneca city covers 2.56 square miles of land, which is 745 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Seneca in?
Newton 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 Seneca?
$46,023. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $132,600. Median gross rent is $902 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Seneca businesses?
2 7(a) approvals totalling $798,000, across 2 lenders, median approval $685,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Seneca, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Seneca borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Seneca. 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 Seneca figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Newton 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 Seneca.
Is zoning published for Seneca?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.