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Sunset Hills city, Missouri: commercial real estate data.
Sunset Hills city is a Census city of 9,112 people across 8.98 square miles of land, in St. Louis County. Median household income is $138,144, 82.9 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $124,100.
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Sunset Hills
What Sunset Hills is
- Census place typecity
- Land area8.98 sq mi
- Water area0.11 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,015
- 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.
Sunset Hills
How many people live in Sunset Hills
- Population9,112
- Median age51.1
- Population under 181,832
- Share under 1820.1 percent
- Population 65 and over2,660
- Share 65 and over29.2 percent
- Households3,625
- Family households2,577
- Share of households that are families71.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sunset Hills
Income and work in Sunset Hills
- Median household income$138,144 plus or minus $31,334
- Per capita income$81,653
- Civilian labor force4,183
- Employed4,013
- Unemployed170 plus or minus 202
- Unemployment rate4.1 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Adults 25 and over6,595
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher96.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher62.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree25.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sunset Hills
Housing in Sunset Hills
- Housing units3,768
- Occupied units3,625
- Vacant units143 plus or minus 110
- Vacancy rate3.8 percent plus or minus 2.9
- Owner occupied3,005
- Renter occupied620 plus or minus 214
- Ownership rate82.9 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$523,800
- Single family units3,234
- Share single family85.8 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more463 plus or minus 140
- Share in buildings of two or more12.3 percent plus or minus 3.7
- Mobile homes71 plus or minus 89
- Median year structure built1979
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sunset Hills
How Sunset Hills gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute3,266
- Commuting under 15 minutes875 plus or minus 230
- Share commuting under 15 minutes26.8 percent plus or minus 6.3
- Commuting 30 minutes or more660 plus or minus 207
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more20.2 percent plus or minus 5.9
- Drove alone75.9 percent
- Carpooled4.0 percent plus or minus 3.0
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked1.3 percent plus or minus 1.4
- Worked from home18.3 percent plus or minus 3.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sunset Hills
SBA 7(a) lending to Sunset Hills borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$124,100
- Average approval$124,100
- Median approval$124,100
- Ninetieth percentile approval$124,100
- Largest approval$124,100
- Jobs supported2
- Jobs per approval2.0
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term60 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
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.
Sunset Hills
SBA 504 lending to Sunset Hills borrowers
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$789,000
- Average approval$263,000
- Median approval$251,000
- Largest approval$317,000
- Jobs supported13
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs2
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
St. Louis County, not Sunset Hills
St. Louis County context, not Sunset Hills 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 Sunset Hills 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 Sunset Hills. 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
Sunset Hills questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Sunset Hills, Missouri?
9,112, in 3,625 households. Sunset Hills city covers 8.98 square miles of land, which is 1,015 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Sunset Hills 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 Sunset Hills?
$138,144. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $523,800. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Sunset Hills businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $124,100, across 1 lenders, median approval $124,100, plus 3 504 approvals worth $789,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Sunset Hills, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Sunset Hills borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Sunset Hills. 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 Sunset Hills 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 Sunset Hills.
Is zoning published for Sunset Hills?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.