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Beaver Dam city, Wisconsin: commercial real estate data.
Beaver Dam city is a Census city of 16,565 people across 7.42 square miles of land, in Dodge County. Median household income is $66,673, 55.3 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 9 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $6.7 m.
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Beaver Dam
What Beaver Dam is
- Census place typecity
- Land area7.42 sq mi
- Water area1.38 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land2,231
- County holding the largest share of its areaDodge 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.
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How many people live in Beaver Dam
- Population16,565
- Median age40.1
- Population under 183,402
- Share under 1820.5 percent
- Population 65 and over3,018
- Share 65 and over18.2 percent
- Households7,571
- Family households4,061
- Share of households that are families53.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Beaver Dam
- Median household income$66,673
- Per capita income$37,703
- Civilian labor force9,334
- Employed8,989
- Unemployed345 plus or minus 180
- Unemployment rate3.7 percent plus or minus 1.9
- Adults 25 and over11,652
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher93.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher25.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree7.3 percent plus or minus 1.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Beaver Dam
- Housing units7,831
- Occupied units7,571
- Vacant units260 plus or minus 155
- Vacancy rate3.3 percent plus or minus 2.0
- Owner occupied4,188
- Renter occupied3,383
- Ownership rate55.3 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$201,900
- Median gross rent, monthly$959
- Annual rent as a share of median income17.3 percent
- Single family units4,950
- Share single family63.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more2,869
- Share in buildings of two or more36.6 percent
- Mobile homes12 plus or minus 21
- Median year structure built1963
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Beaver Dam gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute8,079
- Commuting under 15 minutes3,322
- Share commuting under 15 minutes41.1 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more2,479 plus or minus 495
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more30.7 percent
- Drove alone80.5 percent
- Carpooled6.0 percent plus or minus 2.7
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked3.5 percent plus or minus 1.9
- Worked from home8.5 percent plus or minus 2.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Beaver Dam
SBA 7(a) lending to Beaver Dam borrowers
- Approvals9
- Gross approval$6,693,700
- Average approval$743,744
- Median approval$475,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$2,477,000
- Largest approval$2,477,000
- Jobs supported54
- Jobs per approval6.0
- Loans with a final outcome2
- Paid in full2
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more66.7 percent
- Share to franchises33.3 percent
- Distinct lenders8
- Distinct industries by NAICS7
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 2 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 504 lending to Beaver Dam borrowers
- Approvals9
- Gross approval$9,608,000
- Average approval$1,067,556
- Median approval$601,000
- Largest approval$2,042,000
- Jobs supported25
- Loans with a final outcome6
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs1
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Dodge County, not Beaver Dam
Dodge County context, not Beaver Dam figures
These are Dodge County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Beaver Dam measurements.
- Establishments in Dodge County1,693
- Employment at those establishments, Dodge County33,265
- Covered employment, Dodge County36,662
- Average annual pay, Dodge County$59,552
- Average weekly wage, Dodge County$1,145
- Housing units permitted, Dodge County197
- Of those, single family, Dodge County185
- County product, 2024, Dodge County$5,047,693,000
- County product change over the prior year, Dodge County3.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Dodge County$59,387
Every figure in this section is published for Dodge County as a whole and is not a measurement of Beaver Dam. 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
Beaver Dam questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin?
16,565, in 7,571 households. Beaver Dam city covers 7.42 square miles of land, which is 2,231 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Beaver Dam in?
Dodge 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 Beaver Dam?
$66,673. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $201,900. Median gross rent is $959 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Beaver Dam businesses?
9 7(a) approvals totalling $6.7 m, across 8 lenders, median approval $475,000, plus 9 504 approvals worth $9.6 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Beaver Dam, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Beaver Dam borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Beaver Dam. only 2 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 Beaver Dam figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Dodge 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 Beaver Dam.
Is zoning published for Beaver Dam?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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