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Fort Garland CDP, Colorado: commercial real estate data.
Fort Garland CDP is a Census CDP of 446 people across 0.38 square miles of land, in Costilla County. 71.9 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $172,900.
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Fort Garland
What Fort Garland is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area0.38 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,187 plus or minus 354
- County holding the largest share of its areaCostilla 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 Garland
How many people live in Fort Garland
- Population446 plus or minus 133
- Median age30.5 plus or minus 14.6
- Population under 18183 plus or minus 60
- Share under 1841.0 percent
- Population 65 and over62 plus or minus 38
- Share 65 and over13.9 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Households167 plus or minus 49
- Family households128 plus or minus 51
- Share of households that are families76.6 percent plus or minus 20.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fort Garland
Income and work in Fort Garland
- Per capita income$17,033 plus or minus $5,798
- Civilian labor force138 plus or minus 66
- Employed135 plus or minus 64
- Unemployed3 plus or minus 6
- Unemployment rate2.2 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Adults 25 and over227 plus or minus 74
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher80.6 percent plus or minus 17.7
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher4.8 percent plus or minus 9.6
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fort Garland
Housing in Fort Garland
- Housing units203 plus or minus 55
- Occupied units167 plus or minus 49
- Vacant units36 plus or minus 33
- Vacancy rate17.7 percent plus or minus 15.5
- Owner occupied120 plus or minus 54
- Renter occupied47 plus or minus 31
- Ownership rate71.9 percent plus or minus 24.5
- Median owner-occupied home value$258,500
- Median gross rent, monthly$933 plus or minus $211
- Single family units172 plus or minus 60
- Share single family84.7 percent plus or minus 18.4
- Units in buildings of two or more3 plus or minus 15
- Share in buildings of two or more1.5 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Mobile homes28 plus or minus 22
- Median year structure built1984
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fort Garland
How Fort Garland gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute90 plus or minus 52
- Commuting under 15 minutes9 plus or minus 18
- Share commuting under 15 minutes10.0 percent plus or minus 19.1
- Commuting 30 minutes or more20 plus or minus 26
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more22.2 percent plus or minus 26.2
- Drove alone87.0 percent
- Carpooled3.0 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home10.0 percent plus or minus 9.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fort Garland
SBA loans in Fort Garland (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$172,900
- Average approval$172,900
- Median approval$172,900
- Ninetieth percentile approval$172,900
- Largest approval$172,900
- Jobs supported4
- Jobs per approval4.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 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.
Costilla County, not Fort Garland
Costilla County context, not Fort Garland figures
These are Costilla 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 Garland measurements.
- Establishments in Costilla County50
- Employment at those establishments, Costilla County385
- Covered employment, Costilla County962
- Average annual pay, Costilla County$40,602
- Average weekly wage, Costilla County$781
- Housing units permitted, Costilla County145
- Of those, single family, Costilla County145
- County product, 2024, Costilla County$125,757,000
- County product change over the prior year, Costilla County12.5 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Costilla County$45,870
Every figure in this section is published for Costilla County as a whole and is not a measurement of Fort Garland. 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.
- The American Community Survey does not publish a median household income for this place, which happens where the sample is too small to support one.
- 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 Garland questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Fort Garland, Colorado?
446, in 167 households. Fort Garland CDP covers 0.38 square miles of land, which is 1,187 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Fort Garland in?
Costilla County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
How much SBA lending goes to Fort Garland businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $172,900, across 1 lenders, median approval $172,900. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Fort Garland, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Fort Garland borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Fort Garland. 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 Fort Garland figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Costilla 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 Garland.
Is zoning published for Fort Garland?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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