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Shelbyville city, Tennessee: commercial real estate data.
Shelbyville city is a Census city of 24,661 people across 19.31 square miles of land, in Bedford County. Median household income is $55,073, 50.7 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 22 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $21.7 m.
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Shelbyville
What Shelbyville is
- Census place typecity
- Land area19.31 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,277
- County holding the largest share of its areaBedford 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.
Shelbyville
How many people live in Shelbyville
- Population24,661
- Median age31.8
- Population under 187,013
- Share under 1828.4 percent
- Population 65 and over2,629
- Share 65 and over10.7 percent
- Households9,089
- Family households6,060
- Share of households that are families66.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Shelbyville
Income and work in Shelbyville
- Median household income$55,073
- Per capita income$25,611
- Civilian labor force12,419
- Employed11,947
- Unemployed472 plus or minus 229
- Unemployment rate3.8 percent plus or minus 1.8
- Adults 25 and over15,267
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher78.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher13.1 percent plus or minus 3.2
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.1 percent plus or minus 1.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Shelbyville
Housing in Shelbyville
- Housing units9,498
- Occupied units9,089
- Vacant units409 plus or minus 245
- Vacancy rate4.3 percent plus or minus 2.6
- Owner occupied4,611
- Renter occupied4,478
- Ownership rate50.7 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$244,000
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,056
- Annual rent as a share of median income23.0 percent
- Single family units6,718
- Share single family70.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more2,067 plus or minus 480
- Share in buildings of two or more21.8 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Mobile homes713 plus or minus 233
- Median year structure built1985
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Shelbyville
How Shelbyville gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute10,972
- Commuting under 15 minutes3,722
- Share commuting under 15 minutes33.9 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more4,256
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more38.8 percent
- Drove alone73.7 percent
- Carpooled17.8 percent plus or minus 5.1
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.2 percent plus or minus 0.3
- Worked from home6.8 percent plus or minus 2.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Shelbyville
SBA 7(a) lending to Shelbyville borrowers
- Approvals22
- Gross approval$21,671,900
- Average approval$985,086
- Median approval$381,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$2,100,000
- Largest approval$5,000,000
- Jobs supported273
- Jobs per approval12.4
- Loans with a final outcome2
- Paid in full2
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more27.3 percent
- Share to franchises9.1 percent
- Distinct lenders12
- Distinct industries by NAICS15
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.
Bedford County, not Shelbyville
Bedford County context, not Shelbyville figures
These are Bedford County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Shelbyville measurements.
- Establishments in Bedford County889
- Employment at those establishments, Bedford County14,839
- Covered employment, Bedford County18,134
- Average annual pay, Bedford County$53,753
- Average weekly wage, Bedford County$1,034
- Housing units permitted, Bedford County631
- Of those, single family, Bedford County623
- County product, 2024, Bedford County$2,920,940,000
- County product change over the prior year, Bedford County10.4 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Bedford County$70,954
Every figure in this section is published for Bedford County as a whole and is not a measurement of Shelbyville. 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
Shelbyville questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Shelbyville, Tennessee?
24,661, in 9,089 households. Shelbyville city covers 19.31 square miles of land, which is 1,277 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Shelbyville in?
Bedford 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 Shelbyville?
$55,073. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $244,000. Median gross rent is $1,056 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Shelbyville businesses?
22 7(a) approvals totalling $21.7 m, across 12 lenders, median approval $381,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Shelbyville, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Shelbyville borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Shelbyville. 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 Shelbyville figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Bedford 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 Shelbyville.
Is zoning published for Shelbyville?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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