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Hempstead city, Texas: commercial real estate data.
Hempstead city is a Census city of 6,137 people across 6.56 square miles of land, in Waller County. Median household income is $60,041, 38.5 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 17 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $14.7 m.
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Hempstead
What Hempstead is
- Census place typecity
- Land area6.56 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land935
- County holding the largest share of its areaWaller 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.
Hempstead
How many people live in Hempstead
- Population6,137
- Median age26.3
- Population under 181,970 plus or minus 394
- Share under 1832.1 percent plus or minus 6.4
- Population 65 and over460 plus or minus 144
- Share 65 and over7.5 percent plus or minus 2.3
- Households1,901
- Family households1,576
- Share of households that are families82.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hempstead
Income and work in Hempstead
- Median household income$60,041
- Per capita income$21,905
- Civilian labor force2,802
- Employed2,736
- Unemployed66 plus or minus 52
- Unemployment rate2.4 percent plus or minus 1.8
- Adults 25 and over3,343
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher72.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher6.8 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree2.2 percent plus or minus 2.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hempstead
Housing in Hempstead
- Housing units2,088
- Occupied units1,901
- Vacant units187 plus or minus 128
- Vacancy rate9.0 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Owner occupied732 plus or minus 193
- Renter occupied1,169 plus or minus 343
- Ownership rate38.5 percent plus or minus 8.0
- Median owner-occupied home value$160,700 plus or minus $88,640
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,234 plus or minus $315
- Annual rent as a share of median income24.7 percent plus or minus 6.9
- Single family units880 plus or minus 227
- Share single family42.1 percent plus or minus 9.1
- Units in buildings of two or more972 plus or minus 386
- Share in buildings of two or more46.6 percent plus or minus 17.3
- Mobile homes236 plus or minus 123
- Median year structure built1987
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hempstead
How Hempstead gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute2,656
- Commuting under 15 minutes770 plus or minus 305
- Share commuting under 15 minutes29.0 percent plus or minus 10.4
- Commuting 30 minutes or more1,269 plus or minus 464
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more47.8 percent plus or minus 15.5
- Drove alone83.5 percent
- Carpooled13.1 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.9 percent plus or minus 1.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hempstead
SBA loans in Hempstead (7(a))
- Approvals17
- Gross approval$14,685,000
- Average approval$863,824
- Median approval$613,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$2,010,000
- Largest approval$2,662,000
- Jobs supported187
- Jobs per approval11.0
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more58.8 percent
- Share to franchises11.8 percent
- Distinct lenders14
- Distinct industries by NAICS16
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.
Hempstead
Flood risk in Hempstead
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number481045
- Currently effective map date05/16/19
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.
Waller County, not Hempstead
Waller County context, not Hempstead figures
These are Waller County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Hempstead measurements.
- Establishments in Waller County1,082
- Employment at those establishments, Waller County18,058
- Covered employment, Waller County26,681
- Average annual pay, Waller County$61,149
- Average weekly wage, Waller County$1,176
- Housing units permitted, Waller County480
- Of those, single family, Waller County368
- County product, 2024, Waller County$6,168,074,000
- County product change over the prior year, Waller County-0.4 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Waller County$80,096
Every figure in this section is published for Waller County as a whole and is not a measurement of Hempstead. 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
Hempstead questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Hempstead, Texas?
6,137, in 1,901 households. Hempstead city covers 6.56 square miles of land, which is 935 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Hempstead in?
Waller 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 Hempstead?
$60,041. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $160,700. Median gross rent is $1,234 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Hempstead businesses?
17 7(a) approvals totalling $14.7 m, across 14 lenders, median approval $613,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Hempstead, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Hempstead borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Hempstead. 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.
Is Hempstead in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Hempstead appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 481045, 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 Hempstead figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Waller 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 Hempstead.
Is zoning published for Hempstead?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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