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Dunbar city, West Virginia: commercial real estate data.
Dunbar city is a Census city of 7,254 people across 2.80 square miles of land, in Kanawha County. Median household income is $58,379, 62.1 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 6 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $3.7 m.
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Dunbar
What Dunbar is
- Census place typecity
- Land area2.8 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land2,589
- County holding the largest share of its areaKanawha 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.
Dunbar
How many people live in Dunbar
- Population7,254
- Median age42.9
- Population under 18928 plus or minus 252
- Share under 1812.8 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Population 65 and over1,618
- Share 65 and over22.3 percent
- Households3,688
- Family households1,579
- Share of households that are families42.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dunbar
Income and work in Dunbar
- Median household income$58,379
- Per capita income$33,550
- Civilian labor force3,842
- Employed3,772
- Unemployed70 plus or minus 76
- Unemployment rate1.8 percent plus or minus 2.0
- Adults 25 and over5,463
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher94.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher29.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree8.0 percent plus or minus 2.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dunbar
Housing in Dunbar
- Housing units4,130
- Occupied units3,688
- Vacant units442 plus or minus 169
- Vacancy rate10.7 percent plus or minus 4.0
- Owner occupied2,289
- Renter occupied1,399
- Ownership rate62.1 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$119,600
- Median gross rent, monthly$935
- Annual rent as a share of median income19.2 percent
- Single family units3,245
- Share single family78.6 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more881 plus or minus 232
- Share in buildings of two or more21.3 percent plus or minus 5.4
- Mobile homes4 plus or minus 7
- Median year structure built1955
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dunbar
How Dunbar gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute3,505
- Commuting under 15 minutes916 plus or minus 241
- Share commuting under 15 minutes26.1 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more577 plus or minus 157
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more16.5 percent plus or minus 4.0
- Drove alone80.4 percent
- Carpooled7.7 percent plus or minus 4.4
- Public transport1.7 percent plus or minus 1.5
- Walked1.4 percent plus or minus 1.4
- Worked from home8.1 percent plus or minus 4.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Dunbar
SBA 7(a) lending to Dunbar borrowers
- Approvals6
- Gross approval$3,730,800
- Average approval$621,800
- Median approval$150,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$3,000,000
- Largest approval$3,000,000
- Jobs supported26
- Jobs per approval4.3
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more33.3 percent
- Share to franchises16.7 percent
- Distinct lenders4
- Distinct industries by NAICS6
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.
Kanawha County, not Dunbar
Kanawha County context, not Dunbar figures
These are Kanawha County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Dunbar measurements.
- Establishments in Kanawha County4,396
- Employment at those establishments, Kanawha County74,799
- Covered employment, Kanawha County97,845
- Average annual pay, Kanawha County$61,997
- Average weekly wage, Kanawha County$1,192
- Housing units permitted, Kanawha County98
- Of those, single family, Kanawha County98
- County product, 2024, Kanawha County$14,447,639,000
- County product change over the prior year, Kanawha County5.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Kanawha County$48,097
Every figure in this section is published for Kanawha County as a whole and is not a measurement of Dunbar. 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
Dunbar questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Dunbar, West Virginia?
7,254, in 3,688 households. Dunbar city covers 2.80 square miles of land, which is 2,589 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Dunbar in?
Kanawha 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 Dunbar?
$58,379. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $119,600. Median gross rent is $935 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Dunbar businesses?
6 7(a) approvals totalling $3.7 m, across 4 lenders, median approval $150,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Dunbar, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Dunbar borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Dunbar. 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.
Are the county figures on this page Dunbar figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Kanawha 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 Dunbar.
Is zoning published for Dunbar?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.