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Fort White town, Florida: commercial real estate data.
Fort White town is a Census town of 531 people across 2.56 square miles of land, in Columbia County. Median household income is $53,750, 74.2 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 2 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $774,000.
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Fort White
What Fort White is
- Census place typetown
- Land area2.56 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land208 plus or minus 82
- County holding the largest share of its areaColumbia 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 White
How many people live in Fort White
- Population531 plus or minus 210
- Median age40.5 plus or minus 9.6
- Population under 18112 plus or minus 62
- Share under 1821.1 percent plus or minus 8.1
- Population 65 and over115 plus or minus 46
- Share 65 and over21.7 percent
- Households229 plus or minus 85
- Family households182 plus or minus 79
- Share of households that are families79.5 percent plus or minus 17.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fort White
Income and work in Fort White
- Median household income$53,750
- Per capita income$25,384 plus or minus $7,029
- Civilian labor force261 plus or minus 141
- Employed254 plus or minus 140
- Unemployed7 plus or minus 10
- Unemployment rate2.7 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Adults 25 and over394 plus or minus 150
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher86.5 percent plus or minus 43.2
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher17.0 percent plus or minus 7.1
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree7.4 percent plus or minus 6.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fort White
Housing in Fort White
- Housing units257 plus or minus 86
- Occupied units229 plus or minus 85
- Vacant units28 plus or minus 24
- Vacancy rate10.9 percent plus or minus 8.6
- Owner occupied170 plus or minus 64
- Renter occupied59 plus or minus 59
- Ownership rate74.2 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$220,800 plus or minus $123,953
- Median gross rent, monthly$943
- Annual rent as a share of median income21.1 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Single family units105 plus or minus 38
- Share single family40.9 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more11 plus or minus 20
- Share in buildings of two or more4.3 percent plus or minus 7.7
- Mobile homes141 plus or minus 80
- Median year structure built1998
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fort White
How Fort White gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute241 plus or minus 142
- Commuting under 15 minutes32 plus or minus 31
- Share commuting under 15 minutes13.3 percent plus or minus 10.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more97 plus or minus 50
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more40.2 percent plus or minus 31.5
- Drove alone59.1 percent plus or minus 45.3
- Carpooled26.8 percent plus or minus 40.3
- Public transport2.8 percent plus or minus 4.5
- Walked3.9 percent plus or minus 6.7
- Worked from home5.1 percent plus or minus 3.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fort White
SBA loans in Fort White (7(a))
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$774,000
- Average approval$387,000
- Median approval$759,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$759,000
- Largest approval$759,000
- Jobs supported23
- Jobs per approval11.5
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term302 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more50.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders2
- Distinct industries by NAICS2
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.
Fort White
Flood risk in Fort White
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number120349
- Currently effective map date(NSFHA)
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.
Columbia County, not Fort White
Columbia County context, not Fort White figures
These are Columbia 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 White measurements.
- Establishments in Columbia County1,492
- Employment at those establishments, Columbia County20,689
- Covered employment, Columbia County24,644
- Average annual pay, Columbia County$51,261
- Average weekly wage, Columbia County$986
- Housing units permitted, Columbia County178
- Of those, single family, Columbia County174
- County product, 2024, Columbia County$3,522,864,000
- County product change over the prior year, Columbia County3.2 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Columbia County$52,194
Every figure in this section is published for Columbia County as a whole and is not a measurement of Fort White. 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
Fort White questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Fort White, Florida?
531, in 229 households. Fort White town covers 2.56 square miles of land, which is 208 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Fort White in?
Columbia 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 White?
$53,750. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $220,800. Median gross rent is $943 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Fort White businesses?
2 7(a) approvals totalling $774,000, across 2 lenders, median approval $759,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Fort White, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Fort White borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Fort White. 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.
Is Fort White in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Fort White appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 120349, 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 Fort White figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Columbia 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 White.
Is zoning published for Fort White?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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