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Wendell town, North Carolina: commercial real estate data.
Wendell town is a Census town of 13,064 people across 9.42 square miles of land, in Wake County. Median household income is $95,787, 78.2 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 23 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $16.2 m.
70 sourced place values · tier FULL · 8 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
Wendell
What Wendell is
- Census place typetown
- Land area9.42 sq mi
- Water area0.03 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,387
- County holding the largest share of its areaWake 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.
Wendell
How many people live in Wendell
- Population13,064
- Median age38.0
- Population under 183,102 plus or minus 657
- Share under 1823.7 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Population 65 and over2,044 plus or minus 532
- Share 65 and over15.6 percent plus or minus 4.1
- Households4,957
- Family households3,470
- Share of households that are families70.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wendell
Income and work in Wendell
- Median household income$95,787
- Per capita income$43,514
- Civilian labor force7,469
- Employed7,369
- Unemployed100 plus or minus 85
- Unemployment rate1.3 percent plus or minus 1.1
- Adults 25 and over8,796
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher91.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher38.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree15.3 percent plus or minus 3.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wendell
Housing in Wendell
- Housing units5,198
- Occupied units4,957
- Vacant units241 plus or minus 169
- Vacancy rate4.6 percent plus or minus 3.2
- Owner occupied3,877
- Renter occupied1,080 plus or minus 365
- Ownership rate78.2 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$330,500
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,457
- Annual rent as a share of median income18.3 percent plus or minus 3.9
- Single family units4,547
- Share single family87.5 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more634 plus or minus 285
- Share in buildings of two or more12.2 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Mobile homes17 plus or minus 28
- Median year structure built2010
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wendell
How Wendell gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute5,467
- Commuting under 15 minutes589 plus or minus 243
- Share commuting under 15 minutes10.8 percent plus or minus 4.3
- Commuting 30 minutes or more2,998 plus or minus 675
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more54.8 percent
- Drove alone65.8 percent
- Carpooled5.8 percent plus or minus 3.9
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home25.9 percent plus or minus 6.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wendell
SBA loans in Wendell (7(a))
- Approvals23
- Gross approval$16,235,500
- Average approval$705,891
- Median approval$459,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,876,000
- Largest approval$3,755,000
- Jobs supported182
- Jobs per approval7.9
- Loans with a final outcome4
- Paid in full3
- Charged off1
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more8.7 percent
- Share to franchises17.4 percent
- Distinct lenders14
- Distinct industries by NAICS15
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 4 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.
Wendell
Flood risk in Wendell
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number370245
- Currently effective map date07/19/22
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.
Wake County, not Wendell
Wake County context, not Wendell figures
These are Wake County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Wendell measurements.
- Establishments in Wake County33,873
- Employment at those establishments, Wake County556,250
- Covered employment, Wake County653,153
- Average annual pay, Wake County$76,807
- Average weekly wage, Wake County$1,477
- Housing units permitted, Wake County15,248
- Of those, single family, Wake County9,620
- County product, 2024, Wake County$128,428,188,000
- County product change over the prior year, Wake County6.5 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Wake County$88,162
Every figure in this section is published for Wake County as a whole and is not a measurement of Wendell. 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
Wendell questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Wendell, North Carolina?
13,064, in 4,957 households. Wendell town covers 9.42 square miles of land, which is 1,387 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Wendell in?
Wake 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 Wendell?
$95,787. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $330,500. Median gross rent is $1,457 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Wendell businesses?
23 7(a) approvals totalling $16.2 m, across 14 lenders, median approval $459,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Wendell, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Wendell borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Wendell. only 4 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 Wendell in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Wendell appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 370245, 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 Wendell figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Wake 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 Wendell.
Is zoning published for Wendell?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.