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Dresden town, Tennessee: commercial real estate data.
Dresden town is a Census town of 2,943 people across 5.94 square miles of land, in Weakley County. Median household income is $51,000, 64.1 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 6 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $9.6 m.
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Dresden
What Dresden is
- Census place typetown
- Land area5.94 sq mi
- Water area0.02 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land495
- County holding the largest share of its areaWeakley 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.
Dresden
How many people live in Dresden
- Population2,943
- Median age48.0
- Population under 18413 plus or minus 168
- Share under 1814.0 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Population 65 and over852 plus or minus 303
- Share 65 and over29.0 percent plus or minus 10.3
- Households1,530
- Family households710 plus or minus 160
- Share of households that are families46.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dresden
Income and work in Dresden
- Median household income$51,000 plus or minus $11,000
- Per capita income$32,606
- Civilian labor force1,422
- Employed1,332 plus or minus 271
- Unemployed90 plus or minus 113
- Unemployment rate6.3 percent plus or minus 7.9
- Adults 25 and over2,338
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher86.2 percent plus or minus 18.8
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher17.8 percent plus or minus 9.2
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.8 percent plus or minus 5.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dresden
Housing in Dresden
- Housing units1,639
- Occupied units1,530
- Vacant units109 plus or minus 124
- Vacancy rate6.7 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Owner occupied980 plus or minus 235
- Renter occupied550 plus or minus 206
- Ownership rate64.1 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$126,900 plus or minus $31,745
- Median gross rent, monthly$725 plus or minus $179
- Annual rent as a share of median income17.1 percent plus or minus 5.6
- Single family units1,477
- Share single family90.1 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more162 plus or minus 115
- Share in buildings of two or more9.9 percent plus or minus 6.9
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1967
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dresden
How Dresden gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,231 plus or minus 278
- Commuting under 15 minutes410 plus or minus 216
- Share commuting under 15 minutes33.3 percent plus or minus 15.8
- Commuting 30 minutes or more372 plus or minus 195
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more30.2 percent plus or minus 14.3
- Drove alone87.5 percent
- Carpooled2.6 percent plus or minus 3.9
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked2.4 percent plus or minus 3.9
- Worked from home7.6 percent plus or minus 6.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dresden
SBA 7(a) lending to Dresden borrowers
- Approvals6
- Gross approval$9,632,800
- Average approval$1,605,467
- Median approval$1,207,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$3,800,500
- Largest approval$3,800,500
- Jobs supported17
- Jobs per approval2.8
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term219 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more33.3 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders4
- Distinct industries by NAICS3
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.
Weakley County, not Dresden
Weakley County context, not Dresden figures
These are Weakley County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Dresden measurements.
- Establishments in Weakley County589
- Employment at those establishments, Weakley County8,540
- Covered employment, Weakley County10,673
- Average annual pay, Weakley County$44,884
- Average weekly wage, Weakley County$863
- Housing units permitted, Weakley County67
- Of those, single family, Weakley County67
- County product, 2024, Weakley County$1,407,341,000
- County product change over the prior year, Weakley County-4.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Weakley County$36,565
Every figure in this section is published for Weakley County as a whole and is not a measurement of Dresden. 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
Dresden questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Dresden, Tennessee?
2,943, in 1,530 households. Dresden town covers 5.94 square miles of land, which is 495 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Dresden in?
Weakley 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 Dresden?
$51,000. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $126,900. Median gross rent is $725 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Dresden businesses?
6 7(a) approvals totalling $9.6 m, across 4 lenders, median approval $1,207,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Dresden, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Dresden borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Dresden. 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 Dresden figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Weakley 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 Dresden.
Is zoning published for Dresden?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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