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Wauneta village, Nebraska: commercial real estate data.
Wauneta village is a Census village of 531 people across 0.78 square miles of land, in Chase County. Median household income is $47,143, 70.8 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 5 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $639,000.
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Wauneta
What Wauneta is
- Census place typevillage
- Land area0.78 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land683 plus or minus 154
- County holding the largest share of its areaChase 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.
Wauneta
How many people live in Wauneta
- Population531 plus or minus 120
- Median age54.7 plus or minus 18.9
- Population under 1894 plus or minus 37
- Share under 1817.7 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Population 65 and over238 plus or minus 68
- Share 65 and over44.8 percent
- Households236 plus or minus 51
- Family households150 plus or minus 42
- Share of households that are families63.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wauneta
Income and work in Wauneta
- Median household income$47,143
- Per capita income$29,601
- Civilian labor force198 plus or minus 55
- Employed190 plus or minus 53
- Unemployed8 plus or minus 11
- Unemployment rate4.0 percent plus or minus 5.4
- Adults 25 and over408 plus or minus 97
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher96.3 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher16.9 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.7 percent plus or minus 3.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wauneta
Housing in Wauneta
- Housing units265 plus or minus 53
- Occupied units236 plus or minus 51
- Vacant units29 plus or minus 17
- Vacancy rate10.9 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Owner occupied167 plus or minus 39
- Renter occupied69 plus or minus 38
- Ownership rate70.8 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$88,100 plus or minus $20,035
- Median gross rent, monthly$630 plus or minus $365
- Annual rent as a share of median income16.0 percent plus or minus 9.6
- Single family units245 plus or minus 52
- Share single family92.5 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more2 plus or minus 10
- Share in buildings of two or more0.8 percent plus or minus 3.9
- Mobile homes18 plus or minus 15
- Median year structure built1938
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wauneta
How Wauneta gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute169 plus or minus 49
- Commuting under 15 minutes77 plus or minus 29
- Share commuting under 15 minutes45.6 percent plus or minus 10.9
- Commuting 30 minutes or more14 plus or minus 14
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more8.3 percent plus or minus 8.1
- Drove alone76.6 percent
- Carpooled6.9 percent plus or minus 10.5
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked6.4 percent plus or minus 5.6
- Worked from home10.1 percent plus or minus 10.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wauneta
SBA loans in Wauneta (7(a))
- Approvals5
- Gross approval$639,000
- Average approval$127,800
- Median approval$150,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$191,000
- Largest approval$191,000
- Jobs supported13
- Jobs per approval2.6
- 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 lenders3
- Distinct industries by NAICS4
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.
Chase County, not Wauneta
Chase County context, not Wauneta figures
These are Chase County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Wauneta measurements.
- Establishments in Chase County157
- Employment at those establishments, Chase County1,109
- Covered employment, Chase County1,779
- Average annual pay, Chase County$51,656
- Average weekly wage, Chase County$993
- Housing units permitted, Chase County21
- Of those, single family, Chase County17
- County product, 2024, Chase County$433,592,000
- County product change over the prior year, Chase County-4.8 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Chase County$47,500
Every figure in this section is published for Chase County as a whole and is not a measurement of Wauneta. 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
Wauneta questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Wauneta, Nebraska?
531, in 236 households. Wauneta village covers 0.78 square miles of land, which is 683 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Wauneta in?
Chase 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 Wauneta?
$47,143. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $88,100. Median gross rent is $630 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Wauneta businesses?
5 7(a) approvals totalling $639,000, across 3 lenders, median approval $150,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Wauneta, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Wauneta borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Wauneta. 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 Wauneta figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Chase 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 Wauneta.
Is zoning published for Wauneta?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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