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Fort Deposit town, Alabama: commercial real estate data.
Fort Deposit town is a Census town of 1,525 people across 5.66 square miles of land, in Lowndes County. Median household income is $21,563, 61.6 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Fort Deposit
What Fort Deposit is
- Census place typetown
- Land area5.66 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land269 plus or minus 64
- County holding the largest share of its areaLowndes 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.
Fort Deposit
How many people live in Fort Deposit
- Population1,525 plus or minus 363
- Median age33.1 plus or minus 7.5
- Population under 18445 plus or minus 147
- Share under 1829.2 percent plus or minus 6.7
- Population 65 and over247 plus or minus 94
- Share 65 and over16.2 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Households601 plus or minus 146
- Family households405 plus or minus 142
- Share of households that are families67.4 percent plus or minus 17.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fort Deposit
Income and work in Fort Deposit
- Median household income$21,563 plus or minus $8,963
- Per capita income$16,807 plus or minus $3,640
- Civilian labor force453 plus or minus 176
- Employed381 plus or minus 168
- Unemployed72 plus or minus 57
- Unemployment rate15.9 percent plus or minus 11.0
- Adults 25 and over950 plus or minus 233
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher78.3 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher9.7 percent plus or minus 6.4
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree7.1 percent plus or minus 6.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fort Deposit
Housing in Fort Deposit
- Housing units661 plus or minus 143
- Occupied units601 plus or minus 146
- Vacant units60 plus or minus 38
- Vacancy rate9.1 percent plus or minus 5.4
- Owner occupied370 plus or minus 127
- Renter occupied231 plus or minus 92
- Ownership rate61.6 percent plus or minus 14.9
- Median owner-occupied home value$78,000 plus or minus $33,806
- Median gross rent, monthly$467
- Annual rent as a share of median income26.0 percent plus or minus 11.1
- Single family units236 plus or minus 88
- Share single family35.7 percent plus or minus 10.8
- Units in buildings of two or more194 plus or minus 99
- Share in buildings of two or more29.3 percent plus or minus 13.6
- Mobile homes231 plus or minus 111
- Median year structure built1994
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fort Deposit
How Fort Deposit gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute355 plus or minus 162
- Commuting under 15 minutes64 plus or minus 78
- Share commuting under 15 minutes18.0 percent plus or minus 20.3
- Commuting 30 minutes or more220 plus or minus 93
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more62.0 percent plus or minus 38.5
- Drove alone82.9 percent plus or minus 17.4
- Carpooled9.5 percent plus or minus 8.5
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.6 percent plus or minus 1.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lowndes County, not Fort Deposit
Lowndes County context, not Fort Deposit figures
These are Lowndes County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Fort Deposit measurements.
- Establishments in Lowndes County113
- Employment at those establishments, Lowndes County1,776
- Covered employment, Lowndes County2,675
- Average annual pay, Lowndes County$66,726
- Average weekly wage, Lowndes County$1,283
- Housing units permitted, Lowndes County2
- Of those, single family, Lowndes County2
- County product, 2024, Lowndes County$537,792,000
- County product change over the prior year, Lowndes County6.2 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Lowndes County$64,333
Every figure in this section is published for Lowndes County as a whole and is not a measurement of Fort Deposit. 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.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- 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
Fort Deposit questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Fort Deposit, Alabama?
1,525, in 601 households. Fort Deposit town covers 5.66 square miles of land, which is 269 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Fort Deposit in?
Lowndes 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 Fort Deposit?
$21,563. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $78,000. Median gross rent is $467 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Fort Deposit figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Lowndes 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 Fort Deposit.
Is zoning published for Fort Deposit?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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