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Burns town, Tennessee: commercial real estate data.
Burns town is a Census town of 1,884 people across 3.51 square miles of land, in Dickson County. Median household income is $69,167, 78.1 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 5 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $385,000.
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Burns
What Burns is
- Census place typetown
- Land area3.51 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land536 plus or minus 131
- County holding the largest share of its areaDickson 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.
Burns
How many people live in Burns
- Population1,884 plus or minus 460
- Median age40.7
- Population under 18498 plus or minus 164
- Share under 1826.4 percent plus or minus 5.9
- Population 65 and over303 plus or minus 71
- Share 65 and over16.1 percent plus or minus 5.4
- Households744 plus or minus 162
- Family households496 plus or minus 128
- Share of households that are families66.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Burns
Income and work in Burns
- Median household income$69,167
- Per capita income$33,052
- Civilian labor force988 plus or minus 237
- Employed980 plus or minus 236
- Unemployed8 plus or minus 14
- Unemployment rate0.8 percent plus or minus 1.4
- Adults 25 and over1,222 plus or minus 252
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher89.2 percent plus or minus 23.0
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher21.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree5.3 percent plus or minus 2.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Burns
Housing in Burns
- Housing units780 plus or minus 166
- Occupied units744 plus or minus 162
- Vacant units36 plus or minus 34
- Vacancy rate4.6 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Owner occupied581 plus or minus 143
- Renter occupied163 plus or minus 71
- Ownership rate78.1 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$286,400
- Median gross rent, monthly$887
- Annual rent as a share of median income15.4 percent
- Single family units693 plus or minus 158
- Share single family88.8 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more37 plus or minus 36
- Share in buildings of two or more4.7 percent plus or minus 4.5
- Mobile homes50 plus or minus 35
- Median year structure built1980
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Burns
How Burns gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute840 plus or minus 214
- Commuting under 15 minutes298 plus or minus 86
- Share commuting under 15 minutes35.5 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more406 plus or minus 117
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more48.3 percent
- Drove alone74.6 percent
- Carpooled10.9 percent plus or minus 6.3
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home11.2 percent plus or minus 4.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Burns
SBA loans in Burns (7(a))
- Approvals5
- Gross approval$385,000
- Average approval$77,000
- Median approval$100,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$110,000
- Largest approval$110,000
- Jobs supported40
- Jobs per approval8.0
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term72 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises20.0 percent
- Distinct lenders2
- Distinct industries by NAICS4
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.
Dickson County, not Burns
Dickson County context, not Burns figures
These are Dickson County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Burns measurements.
- Establishments in Dickson County1,100
- Employment at those establishments, Dickson County15,749
- Covered employment, Dickson County18,872
- Average annual pay, Dickson County$51,716
- Average weekly wage, Dickson County$995
- Housing units permitted, Dickson County376
- Of those, single family, Dickson County353
- County product, 2024, Dickson County$2,981,493,000
- County product change over the prior year, Dickson County5.5 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Dickson County$62,719
Every figure in this section is published for Dickson County as a whole and is not a measurement of Burns. 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
Burns questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Burns, Tennessee?
1,884, in 744 households. Burns town covers 3.51 square miles of land, which is 536 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Burns in?
Dickson 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 Burns?
$69,167. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $286,400. Median gross rent is $887 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Burns businesses?
5 7(a) approvals totalling $385,000, across 2 lenders, median approval $100,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Burns, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Burns borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Burns. 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.
Are the county figures on this page Burns figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Dickson 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 Burns.
Is zoning published for Burns?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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