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Clifton city, Tennessee: commercial real estate data.
Clifton city is a Census city of 2,660 people across 5.56 square miles of land, in Wayne County. Median household income is $43,571, 67.2 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $202,000.
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Clifton
What Clifton is
- Census place typecity
- Land area5.56 sq mi
- Water area0.57 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land478
- County holding the largest share of its areaWayne 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.
Clifton
How many people live in Clifton
- Population2,660
- Median age44.1
- Population under 18259 plus or minus 88
- Share under 189.7 percent plus or minus 3.0
- Population 65 and over321 plus or minus 100
- Share 65 and over12.1 percent plus or minus 3.3
- Households442 plus or minus 146
- Family households249 plus or minus 104
- Share of households that are families56.3 percent plus or minus 14.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Clifton
Income and work in Clifton
- Median household income$43,571 plus or minus $17,953
- Per capita income$12,273 plus or minus $3,257
- Civilian labor force449 plus or minus 189
- Employed435 plus or minus 188
- Unemployed14 plus or minus 14
- Unemployment rate3.1 percent plus or minus 2.8
- Adults 25 and over2,329
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher80.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher4.6 percent plus or minus 2.2
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree1.7 percent plus or minus 1.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Clifton
Housing in Clifton
- Housing units549 plus or minus 147
- Occupied units442 plus or minus 146
- Vacant units107 plus or minus 43
- Vacancy rate19.5 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Owner occupied297 plus or minus 110
- Renter occupied145 plus or minus 88
- Ownership rate67.2 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$122,100 plus or minus $35,557
- Median gross rent, monthly$681
- Annual rent as a share of median income18.8 percent plus or minus 7.8
- Single family units487 plus or minus 150
- Share single family88.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more14 plus or minus 20
- Share in buildings of two or more2.6 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Mobile homes48 plus or minus 30
- Median year structure built1967
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Clifton
How Clifton gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute399 plus or minus 173
- Commuting under 15 minutes123 plus or minus 74
- Share commuting under 15 minutes30.8 percent plus or minus 12.8
- Commuting 30 minutes or more176 plus or minus 117
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more44.1 percent plus or minus 22.1
- Drove alone90.8 percent
- Carpooled2.4 percent plus or minus 3.4
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home5.5 percent plus or minus 5.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Clifton
SBA 7(a) lending to Clifton borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$202,000
- Average approval$202,000
- Median approval$202,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$202,000
- Largest approval$202,000
- Jobs supported7
- Jobs per approval7.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
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.
Wayne County, not Clifton
Wayne County context, not Clifton figures
These are Wayne County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Clifton measurements.
- Establishments in Wayne County216
- Employment at those establishments, Wayne County2,810
- Covered employment, Wayne County4,052
- Average annual pay, Wayne County$46,559
- Average weekly wage, Wayne County$895
- Housing units permitted, Wayne County1
- Of those, single family, Wayne County1
- County product, 2024, Wayne County$545,589,000
- County product change over the prior year, Wayne County10.3 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Wayne County$50,389
Every figure in this section is published for Wayne County as a whole and is not a measurement of Clifton. 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
Clifton questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Clifton, Tennessee?
2,660, in 442 households. Clifton city covers 5.56 square miles of land, which is 478 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Clifton in?
Wayne 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 Clifton?
$43,571. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $122,100. Median gross rent is $681 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Clifton businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $202,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $202,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Clifton, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Clifton borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Clifton. 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 Clifton figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Wayne 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 Clifton.
Is zoning published for Clifton?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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