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Wildwood city, Missouri: commercial real estate data.
Wildwood city is a Census city of 35,133 people across 66.68 square miles of land, in St. Louis County. Median household income is $161,060, 91.8 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 18 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $3.7 m.
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Wildwood
What Wildwood is
- Census place typecity
- Land area66.68 sq mi
- Water area0.21 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land527
- 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.
Wildwood
How many people live in Wildwood
- Population35,133
- Median age45.7
- Population under 188,397
- Share under 1823.9 percent
- Population 65 and over7,286
- Share 65 and over20.7 percent
- Households12,851
- Family households10,570
- Share of households that are families82.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wildwood
Income and work in Wildwood
- Median household income$161,060
- Per capita income$75,366
- Civilian labor force18,412
- Employed17,986
- Unemployed426 plus or minus 136
- Unemployment rate2.3 percent plus or minus 0.7
- Adults 25 and over24,392
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher98.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher68.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree27.2 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wildwood
Housing in Wildwood
- Housing units13,391
- Occupied units12,851
- Vacant units540 plus or minus 233
- Vacancy rate4.0 percent plus or minus 1.7
- Owner occupied11,800
- Renter occupied1,051
- Ownership rate91.8 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$495,800
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,661
- Annual rent as a share of median income12.4 percent
- Single family units12,513
- Share single family93.4 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more843 plus or minus 236
- Share in buildings of two or more6.3 percent plus or minus 1.8
- Mobile homes35 plus or minus 42
- Median year structure built1992
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wildwood
How Wildwood gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute13,377
- Commuting under 15 minutes2,578
- Share commuting under 15 minutes19.3 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more6,245
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more46.7 percent
- Drove alone68.8 percent
- Carpooled4.7 percent plus or minus 1.4
- Public transport0.1 percent plus or minus 0.2
- Walked0.8 percent plus or minus 0.5
- Worked from home24.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wildwood
SBA 7(a) lending to Wildwood borrowers
- Approvals18
- Gross approval$3,671,800
- Average approval$203,989
- Median approval$150,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$525,000
- Largest approval$1,000,000
- Jobs supported138
- Jobs per approval7.7
- Loans with a final outcome6
- Paid in full6
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises33.3 percent
- Distinct lenders13
- Distinct industries by NAICS17
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 6 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.
Wildwood
SBA 504 lending to Wildwood borrowers
- Approvals4
- Gross approval$2,976,000
- Average approval$744,000
- Median approval$917,000
- Largest approval$1,563,000
- Jobs supported23
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 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 Wildwood
St. Louis County context, not Wildwood 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 Wildwood 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 Wildwood. 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
Wildwood questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Wildwood, Missouri?
35,133, in 12,851 households. Wildwood city covers 66.68 square miles of land, which is 527 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Wildwood 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 Wildwood?
$161,060. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $495,800. Median gross rent is $1,661 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Wildwood businesses?
18 7(a) approvals totalling $3.7 m, across 13 lenders, median approval $150,000, plus 4 504 approvals worth $3.0 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Wildwood, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Wildwood borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Wildwood. only 6 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 Wildwood 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 Wildwood.
Is zoning published for Wildwood?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.