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Clayton city, Missouri: commercial real estate data.
Clayton city is a Census city of 17,380 people across 2.51 square miles of land, in St. Louis County. Median household income is $123,000, 54.9 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 6 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.4 m.
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Clayton
What Clayton is
- Census place typecity
- Land area2.51 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land6,933
- County holding the largest share of its areaSt. Louis 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.
Clayton
How many people live in Clayton
- Population17,380
- Median age30.0
- Population under 183,070
- Share under 1817.7 percent
- Population 65 and over2,418
- Share 65 and over13.9 percent
- Households6,222
- Family households3,180
- Share of households that are families51.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Clayton
Income and work in Clayton
- Median household income$123,000
- Per capita income$74,159
- Civilian labor force7,996
- Employed7,712
- Unemployed284 plus or minus 143
- Unemployment rate3.6 percent plus or minus 1.8
- Adults 25 and over9,809
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher97.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher84.9 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree50.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Clayton
Housing in Clayton
- Housing units6,934
- Occupied units6,222
- Vacant units712 plus or minus 220
- Vacancy rate10.3 percent plus or minus 3.1
- Owner occupied3,413
- Renter occupied2,809
- Ownership rate54.9 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$830,000
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,692
- Annual rent as a share of median income16.5 percent
- Single family units2,401
- Share single family34.6 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more4,533
- Share in buildings of two or more65.4 percent
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1954
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Clayton
How Clayton gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute5,791
- Commuting under 15 minutes2,553
- Share commuting under 15 minutes44.1 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more816 plus or minus 202
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more14.1 percent plus or minus 3.3
- Drove alone57.4 percent
- Carpooled5.6 percent plus or minus 2.1
- Public transport1.5 percent plus or minus 0.8
- Walked10.1 percent plus or minus 2.2
- Worked from home23.4 percent plus or minus 4.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Clayton
SBA 7(a) lending to Clayton borrowers
- Approvals6
- Gross approval$1,368,500
- Average approval$228,083
- Median approval$245,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$700,000
- Largest approval$700,000
- Jobs supported36
- Jobs per approval6.0
- 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 lenders5
- Distinct industries by NAICS5
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.
Clayton
SBA 504 lending to Clayton borrowers
- Approvals5
- Gross approval$3,576,000
- Average approval$715,200
- Median approval$647,000
- Largest approval$1,450,000
- Jobs supported81
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Distinct CDCs3
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
St. Louis County, not Clayton
St. Louis County context, not Clayton figures
These are St. Louis County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Clayton measurements.
- Establishments in St. Louis County29,717
- Employment at those establishments, St. Louis County629,036
- Covered employment, St. Louis County596,676
- Average annual pay, St. Louis County$75,926
- Average weekly wage, St. Louis County$1,460
- Housing units permitted, St. Louis County1,193
- Of those, single family, St. Louis County687
- County product, 2024, St. Louis County$114,807,071,000
- County product change over the prior year, St. Louis County4.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, St. Louis County$94,672
Every figure in this section is published for St. Louis County as a whole and is not a measurement of Clayton. 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
Clayton questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Clayton, Missouri?
17,380, in 6,222 households. Clayton city covers 2.51 square miles of land, which is 6,933 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Clayton in?
St. Louis 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 Clayton?
$123,000. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $830,000. Median gross rent is $1,692 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Clayton businesses?
6 7(a) approvals totalling $1.4 m, across 5 lenders, median approval $245,000, plus 5 504 approvals worth $3.6 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Clayton, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Clayton borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Clayton. 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 Clayton figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for St. Louis 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 Clayton.
Is zoning published for Clayton?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.