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Sheldon city, Missouri: commercial real estate data.
Sheldon city is a Census city of 443 people across 0.53 square miles of land, in Vernon County. Median household income is $41,848, 43.2 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 4 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.8 m.
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Sheldon
What Sheldon is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.53 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land843 plus or minus 225
- County holding the largest share of its areaVernon 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.
Sheldon
How many people live in Sheldon
- Population443 plus or minus 118
- Median age41.1
- Population under 18128 plus or minus 39
- Share under 1828.9 percent
- Population 65 and over73 plus or minus 32
- Share 65 and over16.5 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Households190 plus or minus 54
- Family households93 plus or minus 32
- Share of households that are families48.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sheldon
Income and work in Sheldon
- Median household income$41,848 plus or minus $8,776
- Per capita income$21,328
- Civilian labor force193 plus or minus 62
- Employed181 plus or minus 60
- Unemployed12 plus or minus 10
- Unemployment rate6.2 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Adults 25 and over292 plus or minus 77
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher84.9 percent plus or minus 30.2
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher11.0 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree1.0 percent plus or minus 4.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sheldon
Housing in Sheldon
- Housing units224 plus or minus 52
- Occupied units190 plus or minus 54
- Vacant units34 plus or minus 23
- Vacancy rate15.2 percent plus or minus 9.6
- Owner occupied82 plus or minus 30
- Renter occupied108 plus or minus 40
- Ownership rate43.2 percent plus or minus 9.9
- Median owner-occupied home value$67,500 plus or minus $23,056
- Median gross rent, monthly$617
- Annual rent as a share of median income17.7 percent plus or minus 4.0
- Single family units155 plus or minus 44
- Share single family69.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more40 plus or minus 27
- Share in buildings of two or more17.9 percent plus or minus 11.3
- Mobile homes29 plus or minus 19
- Median year structure built1965
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sheldon
How Sheldon gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute172 plus or minus 56
- Commuting under 15 minutes47 plus or minus 27
- Share commuting under 15 minutes27.3 percent plus or minus 12.7
- Commuting 30 minutes or more29 plus or minus 15
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more16.9 percent plus or minus 7.1
- Drove alone89.4 percent
- Carpooled6.1 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home4.4 percent plus or minus 4.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sheldon
SBA loans in Sheldon (7(a))
- Approvals4
- Gross approval$1,816,000
- Average approval$454,000
- Median approval$468,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$950,000
- Largest approval$950,000
- Jobs supported25
- Jobs per approval6.3
- Loans with a final outcome2
- Paid in full2
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders3
- Distinct industries by NAICS4
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 2 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.
Vernon County, not Sheldon
Vernon County context, not Sheldon figures
These are Vernon County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Sheldon measurements.
- Establishments in Vernon County436
- Employment at those establishments, Vernon County5,612
- Covered employment, Vernon County6,582
- Average annual pay, Vernon County$46,600
- Average weekly wage, Vernon County$896
- Housing units permitted, Vernon County57
- Of those, single family, Vernon County13
- County product, 2024, Vernon County$1,137,997,000
- County product change over the prior year, Vernon County0.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Vernon County$49,797
Every figure in this section is published for Vernon County as a whole and is not a measurement of Sheldon. 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
Sheldon questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Sheldon, Missouri?
443, in 190 households. Sheldon city covers 0.53 square miles of land, which is 843 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Sheldon in?
Vernon 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 Sheldon?
$41,848. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $67,500. Median gross rent is $617 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Sheldon businesses?
4 7(a) approvals totalling $1.8 m, across 3 lenders, median approval $468,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Sheldon, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Sheldon borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Sheldon. only 2 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 Sheldon figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Vernon 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 Sheldon.
Is zoning published for Sheldon?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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