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Belle Mead CDP, New Jersey: commercial real estate data.
Belle Mead CDP is a Census CDP of 6,394 people across 4.03 square miles of land, in Somerset County. Median household income is $223,250, 63.8 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 11 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $2.5 m.
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Belle Mead
What Belle Mead is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area4.03 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,586
- County holding the largest share of its areaSomerset 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.
Belle Mead
How many people live in Belle Mead
- Population6,394
- Median age35.2
- Population under 181,971 plus or minus 446
- Share under 1830.8 percent
- Population 65 and over494 plus or minus 187
- Share 65 and over7.7 percent plus or minus 2.7
- Households2,044
- Family households1,706
- Share of households that are families83.5 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Belle Mead
Income and work in Belle Mead
- Median household income$223,250
- Per capita income$72,795
- Civilian labor force3,639
- Employed3,470
- Unemployed169 plus or minus 133
- Unemployment rate4.6 percent plus or minus 3.6
- Adults 25 and over4,002
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher96.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher73.3 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree39.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Belle Mead
Housing in Belle Mead
- Housing units2,044
- Occupied units2,044
- Vacant units0
- Vacancy rate0.0 percent
- Owner occupied1,304
- Renter occupied740 plus or minus 217
- Ownership rate63.8 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$810,300
- Median gross rent, monthly$2,627
- Annual rent as a share of median income14.1 percent
- Single family units1,522 plus or minus 312
- Share single family74.5 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more522 plus or minus 184
- Share in buildings of two or more25.5 percent plus or minus 8.3
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built2001
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Belle Mead
How Belle Mead gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute2,194 plus or minus 441
- Commuting under 15 minutes284 plus or minus 151
- Share commuting under 15 minutes12.9 percent plus or minus 6.4
- Commuting 30 minutes or more1,400 plus or minus 354
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more63.8 percent
- Drove alone47.5 percent
- Carpooled8.3 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Public transport4.7 percent plus or minus 3.9
- Walked0.9 percent plus or minus 1.7
- Worked from home35.8 percent plus or minus 7.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Belle Mead
SBA loans in Belle Mead (7(a))
- Approvals11
- Gross approval$2,458,300
- Average approval$223,482
- Median approval$100,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$589,000
- Largest approval$704,000
- Jobs supported56
- Jobs per approval5.1
- 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 franchises27.3 percent
- Distinct lenders6
- Distinct industries by NAICS10
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.
Somerset County, not Belle Mead
Somerset County context, not Belle Mead figures
These are Somerset County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Belle Mead measurements.
- Establishments in Somerset County9,831
- Employment at those establishments, Somerset County188,127
- Covered employment, Somerset County190,468
- Average annual pay, Somerset County$106,418
- Average weekly wage, Somerset County$2,046
- Housing units permitted, Somerset County635
- Of those, single family, Somerset County320
- County product, 2024, Somerset County$54,494,111,000
- County product change over the prior year, Somerset County5.3 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Somerset County$123,037
Every figure in this section is published for Somerset County as a whole and is not a measurement of Belle Mead. 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
Belle Mead questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Belle Mead, New Jersey?
6,394, in 2,044 households. Belle Mead CDP covers 4.03 square miles of land, which is 1,586 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Belle Mead in?
Somerset 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 Belle Mead?
$223,250. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $810,300. Median gross rent is $2,627 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Belle Mead businesses?
11 7(a) approvals totalling $2.5 m, across 6 lenders, median approval $100,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Belle Mead, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Belle Mead borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Belle Mead. 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 Belle Mead figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Somerset 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 Belle Mead.
Is zoning published for Belle Mead?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.