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Nehalem city, Oregon: commercial real estate data.
Nehalem city is a Census city of 235 people across 0.27 square miles of land, in Tillamook County. Median household income is $76,071, 84.4 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 9 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.1 m.
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Nehalem
What Nehalem is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.27 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land876 plus or minus 402
- County holding the largest share of its areaTillamook 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.
Nehalem
How many people live in Nehalem
- Population235 plus or minus 108
- Median age55.1 plus or minus 11.1
- Population under 1818 plus or minus 20
- Share under 187.7 percent plus or minus 7.7
- Population 65 and over84 plus or minus 47
- Share 65 and over35.7 percent plus or minus 11.1
- Households122 plus or minus 47
- Family households64 plus or minus 34
- Share of households that are families52.5 percent plus or minus 19.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Nehalem
Income and work in Nehalem
- Median household income$76,071 plus or minus $63,977
- Per capita income$40,237 plus or minus $10,575
- Civilian labor force144 plus or minus 75
- Employed122 plus or minus 60
- Unemployed22 plus or minus 40
- Unemployment rate15.3 percent plus or minus 26.6
- Adults 25 and over217 plus or minus 103
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher94.9 percent plus or minus 56.7
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher26.7 percent plus or minus 10.2
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree12.4 percent plus or minus 10.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Nehalem
Housing in Nehalem
- Housing units151 plus or minus 51
- Occupied units122 plus or minus 47
- Vacant units29 plus or minus 20
- Vacancy rate19.2 percent plus or minus 11.5
- Owner occupied103 plus or minus 44
- Renter occupied19 plus or minus 20
- Ownership rate84.4 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$456,700
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,196 plus or minus $717
- Annual rent as a share of median income18.9 percent plus or minus 19.5
- Single family units125 plus or minus 45
- Share single family82.8 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more20 plus or minus 21
- Share in buildings of two or more13.2 percent plus or minus 13.4
- Mobile homes6 plus or minus 11
- Median year structure built1984
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Nehalem
How Nehalem gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute94 plus or minus 56
- Commuting under 15 minutes60 plus or minus 36
- Share commuting under 15 minutes63.8 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more25 plus or minus 28
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more26.6 percent plus or minus 25.4
- Drove alone58.2 percent plus or minus 19.1
- Carpooled9.8 percent plus or minus 13.1
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked7.4 percent plus or minus 11.7
- Worked from home23.0 percent plus or minus 14.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Nehalem
SBA loans in Nehalem (7(a))
- Approvals9
- Gross approval$1,069,400
- Average approval$118,822
- Median approval$25,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$569,900
- Largest approval$569,900
- Jobs supported18
- Jobs per approval2.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more11.1 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders3
- Distinct industries by NAICS8
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.
Tillamook County, not Nehalem
Tillamook County context, not Nehalem figures
These are Tillamook County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Nehalem measurements.
- Establishments in Tillamook County769
- Employment at those establishments, Tillamook County8,076
- Covered employment, Tillamook County9,886
- Average annual pay, Tillamook County$52,379
- Average weekly wage, Tillamook County$1,007
- Housing units permitted, Tillamook County86
- Of those, single family, Tillamook County82
- County product, 2024, Tillamook County$1,475,328,000
- County product change over the prior year, Tillamook County1.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Tillamook County$127,841
Every figure in this section is published for Tillamook County as a whole and is not a measurement of Nehalem. 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
Nehalem questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Nehalem, Oregon?
235, in 122 households. Nehalem city covers 0.27 square miles of land, which is 876 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Nehalem in?
Tillamook 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 Nehalem?
$76,071. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $456,700. Median gross rent is $1,196 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Nehalem businesses?
9 7(a) approvals totalling $1.1 m, across 3 lenders, median approval $25,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Nehalem, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Nehalem borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Nehalem. 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 Nehalem figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Tillamook 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 Nehalem.
Is zoning published for Nehalem?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.