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Signal Mountain town, Tennessee: commercial real estate data.
Signal Mountain town is a Census town of 8,860 people across 8.37 square miles of land, in Hamilton County. Median household income is $141,008, 87.9 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 11 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $2.7 m.
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Signal Mountain
What Signal Mountain is
- Census place typetown
- Land area8.37 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,059
- County holding the largest share of its areaHamilton 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.
Signal Mountain
How many people live in Signal Mountain
- Population8,860
- Median age44.3
- Population under 182,427
- Share under 1827.4 percent
- Population 65 and over2,181
- Share 65 and over24.6 percent
- Households3,351
- Family households2,452
- Share of households that are families73.2 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Signal Mountain
Income and work in Signal Mountain
- Median household income$141,008
- Per capita income$80,244
- Civilian labor force3,728
- Employed3,639
- Unemployed89 plus or minus 65
- Unemployment rate2.4 percent plus or minus 1.7
- Adults 25 and over6,126
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher99.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher72.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree32.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Signal Mountain
Housing in Signal Mountain
- Housing units3,429
- Occupied units3,351
- Vacant units78 plus or minus 89
- Vacancy rate2.3 percent plus or minus 2.6
- Owner occupied2,945
- Renter occupied406 plus or minus 145
- Ownership rate87.9 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$544,300
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,852 plus or minus $1,111
- Annual rent as a share of median income15.8 percent plus or minus 9.9
- Single family units3,116
- Share single family90.9 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more313 plus or minus 127
- Share in buildings of two or more9.1 percent plus or minus 3.7
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1977
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Signal Mountain
How Signal Mountain gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute2,690
- Commuting under 15 minutes389 plus or minus 155
- Share commuting under 15 minutes14.5 percent plus or minus 5.5
- Commuting 30 minutes or more980 plus or minus 303
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more36.4 percent plus or minus 10.4
- Drove alone70.0 percent
- Carpooled1.8 percent plus or minus 1.3
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked2.2 percent plus or minus 1.9
- Worked from home26.1 percent plus or minus 6.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Signal Mountain
SBA 7(a) lending to Signal Mountain borrowers
- Approvals11
- Gross approval$2,726,100
- Average approval$247,827
- Median approval$178,100
- Ninetieth percentile approval$336,000
- Largest approval$975,000
- Jobs supported55
- Jobs per approval5.0
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more9.1 percent
- Share to franchises45.5 percent
- Distinct lenders9
- Distinct industries by NAICS9
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.
Hamilton County, not Signal Mountain
Hamilton County context, not Signal Mountain figures
These are Hamilton County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Signal Mountain measurements.
- Establishments in Hamilton County9,883
- Employment at those establishments, Hamilton County205,761
- Covered employment, Hamilton County221,207
- Average annual pay, Hamilton County$66,004
- Average weekly wage, Hamilton County$1,269
- Housing units permitted, Hamilton County2,130
- Of those, single family, Hamilton County1,537
- County product, 2024, Hamilton County$37,279,203,000
- County product change over the prior year, Hamilton County3.3 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Hamilton County$92,528
Every figure in this section is published for Hamilton County as a whole and is not a measurement of Signal Mountain. 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
Signal Mountain questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Signal Mountain, Tennessee?
8,860, in 3,351 households. Signal Mountain town covers 8.37 square miles of land, which is 1,059 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Signal Mountain in?
Hamilton 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 Signal Mountain?
$141,008. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $544,300. Median gross rent is $1,852 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Signal Mountain businesses?
11 7(a) approvals totalling $2.7 m, across 9 lenders, median approval $178,100. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Signal Mountain, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Signal Mountain borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Signal Mountain. 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 Signal Mountain figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Hamilton 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 Signal Mountain.
Is zoning published for Signal Mountain?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.