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Little Falls city, New York: commercial real estate data.
Little Falls city is a Census city of 4,550 people across 3.84 square miles of land, in Herkimer County. Median household income is $53,544, 65.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 11 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $3.3 m.
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Little Falls
What Little Falls is
- Census place typecity
- Land area3.84 sq mi
- Water area0.15 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,185
- County holding the largest share of its areaHerkimer 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.
Little Falls
How many people live in Little Falls
- Population4,550
- Median age39.0
- Population under 181,118 plus or minus 239
- Share under 1824.6 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Population 65 and over965
- Share 65 and over21.2 percent
- Households1,926
- Family households1,044
- Share of households that are families54.2 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Little Falls
Income and work in Little Falls
- Median household income$53,544
- Per capita income$31,801
- Civilian labor force1,971
- Employed1,821
- Unemployed150 plus or minus 132
- Unemployment rate7.6 percent plus or minus 6.7
- Adults 25 and over2,899
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher92.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher22.0 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree8.9 percent plus or minus 3.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Little Falls
Housing in Little Falls
- Housing units2,234
- Occupied units1,926
- Vacant units308 plus or minus 104
- Vacancy rate13.8 percent plus or minus 4.5
- Owner occupied1,264
- Renter occupied662 plus or minus 142
- Ownership rate65.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$105,700 plus or minus $22,269
- Median gross rent, monthly$804
- Annual rent as a share of median income18.0 percent
- Single family units1,177
- Share single family52.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more1,042
- Share in buildings of two or more46.6 percent
- Mobile homes15 plus or minus 23
- Median year structure built1938
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Little Falls
How Little Falls gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,559
- Commuting under 15 minutes617 plus or minus 165
- Share commuting under 15 minutes39.6 percent plus or minus 9.4
- Commuting 30 minutes or more546 plus or minus 153
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more35.0 percent plus or minus 8.8
- Drove alone75.3 percent
- Carpooled7.6 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Public transport0.5 percent plus or minus 0.8
- Walked3.4 percent plus or minus 2.8
- Worked from home12.1 percent plus or minus 4.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Little Falls
SBA 7(a) lending to Little Falls borrowers
- Approvals11
- Gross approval$3,275,000
- Average approval$297,727
- Median approval$25,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,360,000
- Largest approval$1,475,000
- Jobs supported53
- Jobs per approval4.8
- Loans with a final outcome2
- Paid in full2
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more18.2 percent
- Share to franchises9.1 percent
- Distinct lenders4
- Distinct industries by NAICS9
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.
Little Falls
Flood programme status in Little Falls
- Listed NFIP communities2
- Of those, participating2
- NFIP community number360310
- Currently effective map date04/04/83
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Herkimer County, not Little Falls
Herkimer County context, not Little Falls figures
These are Herkimer County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Little Falls measurements.
- Establishments in Herkimer County1,124
- Employment at those establishments, Herkimer County11,873
- Covered employment, Herkimer County15,519
- Average annual pay, Herkimer County$51,384
- Average weekly wage, Herkimer County$988
- Housing units permitted, Herkimer County50
- Of those, single family, Herkimer County50
- County product, 2024, Herkimer County$2,359,755,000
- County product change over the prior year, Herkimer County4.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Herkimer County$56,153
Every figure in this section is published for Herkimer County as a whole and is not a measurement of Little Falls. 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.
- 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
Little Falls questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Little Falls, New York?
4,550, in 1,926 households. Little Falls city covers 3.84 square miles of land, which is 1,185 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Little Falls in?
Herkimer 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 Little Falls?
$53,544. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $105,700. Median gross rent is $804 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Little Falls businesses?
11 7(a) approvals totalling $3.3 m, across 4 lenders, median approval $25,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Little Falls, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Little Falls borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Little Falls. 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.
Is Little Falls in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Little Falls appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 360310, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Little Falls figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Herkimer 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 Little Falls.
Is zoning published for Little Falls?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.