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Shaker Heights city, Ohio: commercial real estate data.
Shaker Heights city is a Census city of 28,922 people across 6.29 square miles of land, in Cuyahoga County. Median household income is $104,073, 60.3 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 24 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $10.1 m.
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Shaker Heights
What Shaker Heights is
- Census place typecity
- Land area6.29 sq mi
- Water area0.04 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land4,597
- County holding the largest share of its areaCuyahoga 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.
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How many people live in Shaker Heights
- Population28,922
- Median age41.8
- Population under 186,809
- Share under 1823.5 percent
- Population 65 and over6,233
- Share 65 and over21.6 percent
- Households12,806
- Family households7,419
- Share of households that are families57.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Shaker Heights
- Median household income$104,073
- Per capita income$72,806
- Civilian labor force15,318
- Employed14,620
- Unemployed698 plus or minus 231
- Unemployment rate4.6 percent plus or minus 1.5
- Adults 25 and over20,534
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher97.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher69.3 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree40.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Shaker Heights
- Housing units13,947
- Occupied units12,806
- Vacant units1,141
- Vacancy rate8.2 percent
- Owner occupied7,725
- Renter occupied5,081
- Ownership rate60.3 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$303,200
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,168
- Annual rent as a share of median income13.5 percent
- Single family units7,846
- Share single family56.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more6,046
- Share in buildings of two or more43.3 percent
- Mobile homes7 plus or minus 13
- Median year structure built1945
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Shaker Heights gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute10,977
- Commuting under 15 minutes2,797
- Share commuting under 15 minutes25.5 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more2,796
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more25.5 percent
- Drove alone63.6 percent
- Carpooled6.6 percent plus or minus 1.5
- Public transport3.6 percent plus or minus 2.2
- Walked1.3 percent plus or minus 0.6
- Worked from home23.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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SBA loans in Shaker Heights (7(a))
- Approvals24
- Gross approval$10,129,000
- Average approval$422,042
- Median approval$80,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,426,200
- Largest approval$2,570,000
- Jobs supported223
- Jobs per approval9.3
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full0
- Charged off1
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more4.2 percent
- Share to franchises4.2 percent
- Distinct lenders11
- Distinct industries by NAICS18
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 1 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.
Shaker Heights
Flood risk in Shaker Heights
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number390129
- Currently effective map date12/03/10
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.
Cuyahoga County, not Shaker Heights
Cuyahoga County context, not Shaker Heights figures
These are Cuyahoga County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Shaker Heights measurements.
- Establishments in Cuyahoga County31,496
- Employment at those establishments, Cuyahoga County681,543
- Covered employment, Cuyahoga County705,152
- Average annual pay, Cuyahoga County$75,134
- Average weekly wage, Cuyahoga County$1,445
- Housing units permitted, Cuyahoga County1,685
- Of those, single family, Cuyahoga County663
- County product, 2024, Cuyahoga County$135,913,887,000
- County product change over the prior year, Cuyahoga County5.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Cuyahoga County$70,762
Every figure in this section is published for Cuyahoga County as a whole and is not a measurement of Shaker Heights. 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
Shaker Heights questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Shaker Heights, Ohio?
28,922, in 12,806 households. Shaker Heights city covers 6.29 square miles of land, which is 4,597 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Shaker Heights in?
Cuyahoga 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 Shaker Heights?
$104,073. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $303,200. Median gross rent is $1,168 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Shaker Heights businesses?
24 7(a) approvals totalling $10.1 m, across 11 lenders, median approval $80,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Shaker Heights, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Shaker Heights borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Shaker Heights. only 1 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 Shaker Heights in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Shaker Heights appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 390129, 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 Shaker Heights figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Cuyahoga 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 Shaker Heights.
Is zoning published for Shaker Heights?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.