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Tenaha town, Texas: commercial real estate data.
Tenaha town is a Census town of 1,239 people across 3.74 square miles of land, in Shelby County. Median household income is $27,813, 45.5 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 2 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $4.2 m.
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Tenaha
What Tenaha is
- Census place typetown
- Land area3.74 sq mi
- Water area0.02 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land331 plus or minus 93
- County holding the largest share of its areaShelby 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.
Tenaha
How many people live in Tenaha
- Population1,239 plus or minus 348
- Median age29.8 plus or minus 9.8
- Population under 18377 plus or minus 111
- Share under 1830.4 percent
- Population 65 and over146 plus or minus 60
- Share 65 and over11.8 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Households391 plus or minus 124
- Family households239 plus or minus 89
- Share of households that are families61.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Tenaha
Income and work in Tenaha
- Median household income$27,813 plus or minus $8,129
- Per capita income$27,442 plus or minus $18,655
- Civilian labor force462 plus or minus 208
- Employed462 plus or minus 208
- Unemployed0
- Unemployment rate0.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over688 plus or minus 239
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher74.6 percent plus or minus 35.6
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher8.0 percent plus or minus 5.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree2.9 percent plus or minus 4.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Tenaha
Housing in Tenaha
- Housing units457 plus or minus 134
- Occupied units391 plus or minus 124
- Vacant units66 plus or minus 49
- Vacancy rate14.4 percent plus or minus 9.9
- Owner occupied178 plus or minus 75
- Renter occupied213 plus or minus 96
- Ownership rate45.5 percent plus or minus 12.6
- Median owner-occupied home value$91,500 plus or minus $65,552
- Median gross rent, monthly$600
- Annual rent as a share of median income25.9 percent plus or minus 9.0
- Single family units193 plus or minus 77
- Share single family42.2 percent plus or minus 11.5
- Units in buildings of two or more104 plus or minus 67
- Share in buildings of two or more22.8 percent plus or minus 13.2
- Mobile homes160 plus or minus 78
- Median year structure built1979
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Tenaha
How Tenaha gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute460 plus or minus 207
- Commuting under 15 minutes84 plus or minus 67
- Share commuting under 15 minutes18.3 percent plus or minus 12.1
- Commuting 30 minutes or more197 plus or minus 114
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more42.8 percent plus or minus 15.7
- Drove alone66.2 percent plus or minus 22.6
- Carpooled26.4 percent plus or minus 19.1
- Public transport6.3 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.4 percent plus or minus 1.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Tenaha
SBA loans in Tenaha (7(a))
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$4,243,000
- Average approval$2,121,500
- Median approval$2,961,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$2,961,000
- Largest approval$2,961,000
- Jobs supported5
- Jobs per approval2.5
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term252 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more50.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders2
- Distinct industries by NAICS2
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.
Tenaha
SBA loans in Tenaha (504)
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$1,018,000
- Average approval$1,018,000
- Median approval$1,018,000
- Largest approval$1,018,000
- Jobs supported24
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Distinct CDCs1
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Tenaha
Flood risk in Tenaha
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number481006
- Currently effective map date05/26/26(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.
Shelby County, not Tenaha
Shelby County context, not Tenaha figures
These are Shelby County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Tenaha measurements.
- Establishments in Shelby County531
- Employment at those establishments, Shelby County7,070
- Covered employment, Shelby County8,678
- Average annual pay, Shelby County$51,298
- Average weekly wage, Shelby County$987
- Housing units permitted, Shelby County4
- Of those, single family, Shelby County4
- County product, 2024, Shelby County$1,987,568,000
- County product change over the prior year, Shelby County8.3 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Shelby County$51,467
Every figure in this section is published for Shelby County as a whole and is not a measurement of Tenaha. 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
Tenaha questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Tenaha, Texas?
1,239, in 391 households. Tenaha town covers 3.74 square miles of land, which is 331 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Tenaha in?
Shelby 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 Tenaha?
$27,813. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $91,500. Median gross rent is $600 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Tenaha businesses?
2 7(a) approvals totalling $4.2 m, across 2 lenders, median approval $2,961,000, plus 1 504 approvals worth $1.0 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Tenaha, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Tenaha borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Tenaha. 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 Tenaha in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Tenaha appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 481006, 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 Tenaha figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Shelby 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 Tenaha.
Is zoning published for Tenaha?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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