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Balmorhea city, Texas: commercial real estate data.
Balmorhea city is a Census city of 456 people across 0.51 square miles of land, in Reeves County. 52.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $51,000.
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Balmorhea
What Balmorhea is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.51 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land889 plus or minus 361
- County holding the largest share of its areaReeves 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.
Balmorhea
How many people live in Balmorhea
- Population456 plus or minus 185
- Median age38.1 plus or minus 12.5
- Population under 18135 plus or minus 71
- Share under 1829.6 percent plus or minus 10.1
- Population 65 and over101 plus or minus 53
- Share 65 and over22.1 percent plus or minus 7.3
- Households137 plus or minus 51
- Family households128 plus or minus 50
- Share of households that are families93.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Balmorhea
Income and work in Balmorhea
- Per capita income$20,298 plus or minus $8,652
- Civilian labor force192 plus or minus 85
- Employed192 plus or minus 85
- Unemployed0
- Unemployment rate0.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over286 plus or minus 100
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher78.3 percent plus or minus 16.8
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher3.1 percent plus or minus 7.1
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.1 percent plus or minus 7.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Balmorhea
Housing in Balmorhea
- Housing units176 plus or minus 56
- Occupied units137 plus or minus 51
- Vacant units39 plus or minus 24
- Vacancy rate22.2 percent plus or minus 11.7
- Owner occupied72 plus or minus 37
- Renter occupied65 plus or minus 43
- Ownership rate52.6 percent plus or minus 18.6
- Median owner-occupied home value$54,400
- Single family units131 plus or minus 50
- Share single family74.4 percent plus or minus 15.9
- Units in buildings of two or more8 plus or minus 22
- Share in buildings of two or more4.5 percent plus or minus 12.3
- Mobile homes37 plus or minus 29
- Median year structure built1969
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Balmorhea
How Balmorhea gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute188 plus or minus 85
- Commuting under 15 minutes136 plus or minus 75
- Share commuting under 15 minutes72.3 percent plus or minus 22.9
- Commuting 30 minutes or more37 plus or minus 37
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more19.7 percent plus or minus 17.4
- Drove alone78.7 percent plus or minus 16.8
- Carpooled5.3 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.5 percent plus or minus 1.0
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Balmorhea
SBA loans in Balmorhea (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$51,000
- Average approval$51,000
- Median approval$51,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$51,000
- Largest approval$51,000
- Jobs supported2
- Jobs per approval2.0
- 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.
Balmorhea
Flood risk in Balmorhea
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number480537
- Currently effective map date09/16/88
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.
Reeves County, not Balmorhea
Reeves County context, not Balmorhea figures
These are Reeves County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Balmorhea measurements.
- Establishments in Reeves County383
- Employment at those establishments, Reeves County5,405
- Covered employment, Reeves County7,721
- Average annual pay, Reeves County$80,453
- Average weekly wage, Reeves County$1,547
- Housing units permitted, Reeves County30
- Of those, single family, Reeves County30
- County product, 2024, Reeves County$14,272,302,000
- County product change over the prior year, Reeves County-2.8 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Reeves County$55,215
Every figure in this section is published for Reeves County as a whole and is not a measurement of Balmorhea. 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.
- The American Community Survey does not publish a median household income for this place, which happens where the sample is too small to support one.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- 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
Balmorhea questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Balmorhea, Texas?
456, in 137 households. Balmorhea city covers 0.51 square miles of land, which is 889 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Balmorhea in?
Reeves County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
How much SBA lending goes to Balmorhea businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $51,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $51,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Balmorhea, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Balmorhea borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Balmorhea. 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 Balmorhea in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Balmorhea appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 480537, 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 Balmorhea figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Reeves 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 Balmorhea.
Is zoning published for Balmorhea?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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