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Bruce village, Wisconsin: commercial real estate data.
Bruce village is a Census village of 900 people across 2.31 square miles of land, in Rusk County. Median household income is $52,667, 68.0 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $97,000.
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Bruce
What Bruce is
- Census place typevillage
- Land area2.31 sq mi
- Water area0.05 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land390
- County holding the largest share of its areaRusk 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.
Bruce
How many people live in Bruce
- Population900
- Median age31.8
- Population under 18263
- Share under 1829.2 percent
- Population 65 and over129 plus or minus 26
- Share 65 and over14.3 percent
- Households338
- Family households186 plus or minus 38
- Share of households that are families55.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bruce
Income and work in Bruce
- Median household income$52,667
- Per capita income$22,341
- Civilian labor force385
- Employed361
- Unemployed24 plus or minus 17
- Unemployment rate6.2 percent plus or minus 4.3
- Adults 25 and over567
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher90.3 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher7.2 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree2.5 percent plus or minus 2.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bruce
Housing in Bruce
- Housing units383
- Occupied units338
- Vacant units45 plus or minus 29
- Vacancy rate11.7 percent plus or minus 7.4
- Owner occupied230
- Renter occupied108 plus or minus 29
- Ownership rate68.0 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$87,100 plus or minus $30,058
- Median gross rent, monthly$625 plus or minus $169
- Annual rent as a share of median income14.2 percent plus or minus 4.4
- Single family units281
- Share single family73.4 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more69 plus or minus 27
- Share in buildings of two or more18.0 percent plus or minus 6.5
- Mobile homes33 plus or minus 17
- Median year structure built1966
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bruce
How Bruce gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute299
- Commuting under 15 minutes79 plus or minus 33
- Share commuting under 15 minutes26.4 percent plus or minus 10.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more123 plus or minus 32
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more41.1 percent
- Drove alone80.6 percent
- Carpooled8.6 percent plus or minus 4.4
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home8.0 percent plus or minus 4.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bruce
SBA 7(a) lending to Bruce borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$97,000
- Average approval$97,000
- Median approval$97,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$97,000
- Largest approval$97,000
- Jobs supported4
- Jobs per approval4.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more100.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
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.
Rusk County, not Bruce
Rusk County context, not Bruce figures
These are Rusk County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Bruce measurements.
- Establishments in Rusk County321
- Employment at those establishments, Rusk County4,275
- Covered employment, Rusk County4,597
- Average annual pay, Rusk County$46,068
- Average weekly wage, Rusk County$886
- Housing units permitted, Rusk County74
- Of those, single family, Rusk County72
- County product, 2024, Rusk County$726,751,000
- County product change over the prior year, Rusk County2.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Rusk County$64,466
Every figure in this section is published for Rusk County as a whole and is not a measurement of Bruce. 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
Bruce questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Bruce, Wisconsin?
900, in 338 households. Bruce village covers 2.31 square miles of land, which is 390 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Bruce in?
Rusk 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 Bruce?
$52,667. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $87,100. Median gross rent is $625 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Bruce businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $97,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $97,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Bruce, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Bruce borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Bruce. 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 Bruce figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Rusk 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 Bruce.
Is zoning published for Bruce?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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