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Taft city, California: commercial real estate data.
Taft city is a Census city of 7,125 people across 15.27 square miles of land, in Kern County. Median household income is $72,772, 55.0 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 8 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $5.1 m.
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Taft
What Taft is
- Census place typecity
- Land area15.27 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land467
- County holding the largest share of its areaKern 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.
Taft
How many people live in Taft
- Population7,125
- Median age37.1
- Population under 181,364 plus or minus 396
- Share under 1819.1 percent plus or minus 5.6
- Population 65 and over1,027 plus or minus 455
- Share 65 and over14.4 percent plus or minus 6.4
- Households2,651
- Family households1,760
- Share of households that are families66.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Taft
Income and work in Taft
- Median household income$72,772 plus or minus $22,114
- Per capita income$31,797
- Civilian labor force3,138
- Employed2,948
- Unemployed190 plus or minus 163
- Unemployment rate6.1 percent plus or minus 5.1
- Adults 25 and over5,160
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher82.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher9.0 percent plus or minus 3.6
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.1 percent plus or minus 2.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Taft
- Housing units2,876
- Occupied units2,651
- Vacant units225 plus or minus 146
- Vacancy rate7.8 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Owner occupied1,459 plus or minus 366
- Renter occupied1,192 plus or minus 378
- Ownership rate55.0 percent plus or minus 11.8
- Median owner-occupied home value$252,600
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,069
- Annual rent as a share of median income17.6 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Single family units1,936
- Share single family67.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more469 plus or minus 204
- Share in buildings of two or more16.3 percent plus or minus 6.8
- Mobile homes471 plus or minus 324
- Median year structure built1971
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Taft gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute2,781
- Commuting under 15 minutes1,564 plus or minus 416
- Share commuting under 15 minutes56.2 percent plus or minus 11.9
- Commuting 30 minutes or more825 plus or minus 284
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more29.7 percent plus or minus 9.0
- Drove alone82.0 percent
- Carpooled7.9 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked4.3 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Worked from home4.4 percent plus or minus 4.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Taft
SBA 7(a) lending to Taft borrowers
- Approvals8
- Gross approval$5,051,000
- Average approval$631,375
- Median approval$935,900
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,312,000
- Largest approval$1,312,000
- Jobs supported52
- Jobs per approval6.5
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more50.0 percent
- Share to franchises25.0 percent
- Distinct lenders7
- Distinct industries by NAICS7
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 504 lending to Taft borrowers
- Approvals4
- Gross approval$2,681,000
- Average approval$670,250
- Median approval$514,000
- Largest approval$1,576,000
- Jobs supported37
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs2
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Taft
Flood programme status in Taft
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number065063
- Currently effective map date09/26/08
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Kern County, not Taft
Kern County context, not Taft figures
These are Kern County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Taft measurements.
- Establishments in Kern County14,352
- Employment at those establishments, Kern County219,016
- Covered employment, Kern County347,664
- Average annual pay, Kern County$60,066
- Average weekly wage, Kern County$1,155
- Housing units permitted, Kern County3,244
- Of those, single family, Kern County2,812
- County product, 2024, Kern County$63,069,657,000
- County product change over the prior year, Kern County4.8 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Kern County$54,556
Every figure in this section is published for Kern County as a whole and is not a measurement of Taft. 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.
- 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
Taft questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Taft, California?
7,125, in 2,651 households. Taft city covers 15.27 square miles of land, which is 467 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Taft in?
Kern 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 Taft?
$72,772. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $252,600. Median gross rent is $1,069 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Taft businesses?
8 7(a) approvals totalling $5.1 m, across 7 lenders, median approval $935,900, plus 4 504 approvals worth $2.7 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Taft, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Taft borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Taft. 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.
Is Taft in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Taft appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 065063, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Taft figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Kern 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 Taft.
Is zoning published for Taft?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.