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Wasco city, California: commercial real estate data.
Wasco city is a Census city of 26,558 people across 9.39 square miles of land, in Kern County. Median household income is $51,727, 58.3 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 10 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $2.7 m.
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Wasco
What Wasco is
- Census place typecity
- Land area9.39 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land2,829
- 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.
Wasco
How many people live in Wasco
- Population26,558
- Median age30.6
- Population under 187,542
- Share under 1828.4 percent
- Population 65 and over1,692 plus or minus 339
- Share 65 and over6.4 percent plus or minus 1.3
- Households6,342
- Family households5,289
- Share of households that are families83.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wasco
Income and work in Wasco
- Median household income$51,727
- Per capita income$17,909
- Civilian labor force10,014
- Employed9,309
- Unemployed705 plus or minus 276
- Unemployment rate7.0 percent plus or minus 2.7
- Adults 25 and over16,262
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher62.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher6.2 percent plus or minus 1.7
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree1.3 percent plus or minus 0.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wasco
Housing in Wasco
- Housing units6,763
- Occupied units6,342
- Vacant units421 plus or minus 157
- Vacancy rate6.2 percent plus or minus 2.3
- Owner occupied3,697
- Renter occupied2,645
- Ownership rate58.3 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$273,600
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,089
- Annual rent as a share of median income25.3 percent
- Single family units5,365
- Share single family79.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more1,077 plus or minus 281
- Share in buildings of two or more15.9 percent plus or minus 4.0
- Mobile homes321 plus or minus 112
- Median year structure built1983
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wasco
How Wasco gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute8,728
- Commuting under 15 minutes2,428 plus or minus 489
- Share commuting under 15 minutes27.8 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more2,428
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more27.8 percent
- Drove alone78.4 percent
- Carpooled16.0 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Public transport0.2 percent plus or minus 0.3
- Walked2.0 percent plus or minus 1.3
- Worked from home2.9 percent plus or minus 1.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wasco
SBA 7(a) lending to Wasco borrowers
- Approvals10
- Gross approval$2,707,800
- Average approval$270,780
- Median approval$200,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,115,000
- Largest approval$1,115,000
- Jobs supported106
- Jobs per approval10.6
- Loans with a final outcome2
- Paid in full2
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more10.0 percent
- Share to franchises10.0 percent
- Distinct lenders6
- Distinct industries by NAICS9
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.
Wasco
SBA 504 lending to Wasco borrowers
- Approvals7
- Gross approval$5,113,000
- Average approval$730,429
- Median approval$788,000
- Largest approval$1,102,000
- Jobs supported33
- Loans with a final outcome2
- 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.
Wasco
Flood programme status in Wasco
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number060085
- 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 Wasco
Kern County context, not Wasco 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 Wasco 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 Wasco. 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
Wasco questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Wasco, California?
26,558, in 6,342 households. Wasco city covers 9.39 square miles of land, which is 2,829 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Wasco 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 Wasco?
$51,727. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $273,600. Median gross rent is $1,089 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Wasco businesses?
10 7(a) approvals totalling $2.7 m, across 6 lenders, median approval $200,000, plus 7 504 approvals worth $5.1 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Wasco, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Wasco borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Wasco. 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.
Is Wasco in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Wasco appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 060085, 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 Wasco 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 Wasco.
Is zoning published for Wasco?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.