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Rice city, Texas: commercial real estate data.
Rice city is a Census city of 1,241 people across 2.67 square miles of land, in Navarro County. Median household income is $65,958, 84.5 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $3.9 m.
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Rice
What Rice is
- Census place typecity
- Land area2.67 sq mi
- Water area0.08 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land465 plus or minus 137
- County holding the largest share of its areaNavarro 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.
Rice
How many people live in Rice
- Population1,241 plus or minus 365
- Median age26.2 plus or minus 6.1
- Population under 18401 plus or minus 140
- Share under 1832.3 percent
- Population 65 and over79 plus or minus 39
- Share 65 and over6.4 percent plus or minus 2.5
- Households413 plus or minus 108
- Family households297 plus or minus 85
- Share of households that are families71.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Rice
Income and work in Rice
- Median household income$65,958
- Per capita income$25,489 plus or minus $6,695
- Civilian labor force582 plus or minus 165
- Employed570 plus or minus 166
- Unemployed12 plus or minus 13
- Unemployment rate2.1 percent plus or minus 2.2
- Adults 25 and over662 plus or minus 198
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher83.7 percent plus or minus 33.3
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher10.6 percent plus or minus 6.4
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.4 percent plus or minus 5.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Rice
Housing in Rice
- Housing units420 plus or minus 109
- Occupied units413 plus or minus 108
- Vacant units7 plus or minus 12
- Vacancy rate1.7 percent plus or minus 2.8
- Owner occupied349 plus or minus 94
- Renter occupied64 plus or minus 41
- Ownership rate84.5 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$79,500 plus or minus $43,029
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,513 plus or minus $690
- Annual rent as a share of median income27.5 percent plus or minus 13.6
- Single family units202 plus or minus 76
- Share single family48.1 percent plus or minus 12.9
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes215 plus or minus 85
- Median year structure built1995
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Rice
How Rice gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute558 plus or minus 161
- Commuting under 15 minutes162 plus or minus 69
- Share commuting under 15 minutes29.0 percent plus or minus 9.1
- Commuting 30 minutes or more260 plus or minus 97
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more46.6 percent plus or minus 11.1
- Drove alone86.8 percent
- Carpooled7.4 percent plus or minus 4.7
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home4.1 percent plus or minus 4.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Rice
SBA 7(a) lending to Rice borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$3,921,000
- Average approval$3,921,000
- Median approval$3,921,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$3,921,000
- Largest approval$3,921,000
- Jobs supported7
- Jobs per approval7.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term318 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more100.0 percent
- Share to franchises100.0 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.
Rice
Flood programme status in Rice
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number480957
- Currently effective map date06/05/12(M)
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Navarro County, not Rice
Navarro County context, not Rice figures
These are Navarro County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Rice measurements.
- Establishments in Navarro County966
- Employment at those establishments, Navarro County13,928
- Covered employment, Navarro County16,462
- Average annual pay, Navarro County$50,252
- Average weekly wage, Navarro County$966
- Housing units permitted, Navarro County530
- Of those, single family, Navarro County522
- County product, 2024, Navarro County$2,377,616,000
- County product change over the prior year, Navarro County3.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Navarro County$63,940
Every figure in this section is published for Navarro County as a whole and is not a measurement of Rice. 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.
- 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
Rice questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Rice, Texas?
1,241, in 413 households. Rice city covers 2.67 square miles of land, which is 465 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Rice in?
Navarro 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 Rice?
$65,958. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $79,500. Median gross rent is $1,513 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Rice businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $3.9 m, across 1 lenders, median approval $3,921,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Rice, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Rice borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Rice. 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.
Is Rice in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Rice appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 480957, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Rice figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Navarro 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 Rice.
Is zoning published for Rice?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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