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Bayfield city, Wisconsin: commercial real estate data.
Bayfield city is a Census city of 565 people across 0.87 square miles of land, in Bayfield County. Median household income is $70,982, 67.5 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 3 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.0 m.
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Bayfield
What Bayfield is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.87 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land651 plus or minus 136
- County holding the largest share of its areaBayfield 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.
Bayfield
How many people live in Bayfield
- Population565 plus or minus 118
- Median age63.5
- Population under 1867 plus or minus 26
- Share under 1811.9 percent plus or minus 3.8
- Population 65 and over269 plus or minus 67
- Share 65 and over47.6 percent
- Households283 plus or minus 58
- Family households164 plus or minus 54
- Share of households that are families58.0 percent plus or minus 14.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Bayfield
- Median household income$70,982 plus or minus $21,103
- Per capita income$42,059
- Civilian labor force230 plus or minus 58
- Employed223 plus or minus 57
- Unemployed7 plus or minus 10
- Unemployment rate3.0 percent plus or minus 4.3
- Adults 25 and over470 plus or minus 101
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher100.0 percent plus or minus 28.9
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher53.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree24.3 percent plus or minus 8.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Bayfield
- Housing units444
- Occupied units283 plus or minus 58
- Vacant units161 plus or minus 58
- Vacancy rate36.3 percent plus or minus 11.5
- Owner occupied191 plus or minus 53
- Renter occupied92 plus or minus 32
- Ownership rate67.5 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$320,100
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,142
- Annual rent as a share of median income19.3 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Single family units358 plus or minus 74
- Share single family80.6 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more83 plus or minus 34
- Share in buildings of two or more18.7 percent plus or minus 7.0
- Mobile homes3 plus or minus 4
- Median year structure built1965
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Bayfield gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute174 plus or minus 52
- Commuting under 15 minutes136 plus or minus 46
- Share commuting under 15 minutes78.2 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more14 plus or minus 14
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more8.0 percent plus or minus 7.7
- Drove alone55.5 percent
- Carpooled4.4 percent plus or minus 3.8
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked16.2 percent plus or minus 8.6
- Worked from home24.0 percent plus or minus 10.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bayfield
SBA loans in Bayfield (7(a))
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$1,037,700
- Average approval$345,900
- Median approval$400,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$456,000
- Largest approval$456,000
- Jobs supported46
- Jobs per approval15.3
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term144 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more33.3 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders3
- Distinct industries by NAICS3
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.
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SBA loans in Bayfield (504)
- Approvals5
- Gross approval$2,828,000
- Average approval$565,600
- Median approval$424,000
- Largest approval$1,036,000
- Jobs supported51
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Distinct CDCs2
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Bayfield County, not Bayfield
Bayfield County context, not Bayfield figures
These are Bayfield County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Bayfield measurements.
- Establishments in Bayfield County469
- Employment at those establishments, Bayfield County2,612
- Covered employment, Bayfield County4,194
- Average annual pay, Bayfield County$42,107
- Average weekly wage, Bayfield County$810
- Housing units permitted, Bayfield County104
- Of those, single family, Bayfield County104
- County product, 2024, Bayfield County$586,789,000
- County product change over the prior year, Bayfield County4.2 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Bayfield County$92,534
Every figure in this section is published for Bayfield County as a whole and is not a measurement of Bayfield. 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
Bayfield questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Bayfield, Wisconsin?
565, in 283 households. Bayfield city covers 0.87 square miles of land, which is 651 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Bayfield in?
Bayfield 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 Bayfield?
$70,982. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $320,100. Median gross rent is $1,142 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Bayfield businesses?
3 7(a) approvals totalling $1.0 m, across 3 lenders, median approval $400,000, plus 5 504 approvals worth $2.8 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Bayfield, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Bayfield borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Bayfield. 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.
Are the county figures on this page Bayfield figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Bayfield 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 Bayfield.
Is zoning published for Bayfield?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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