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Bell town, Florida: commercial real estate data.
Bell town is a Census town of 563 people across 1.64 square miles of land, in Gilchrist County. Median household income is $65,938, 73.4 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $50,000.
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Bell
What Bell is
- Census place typetown
- Land area1.64 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land344 plus or minus 128
- County holding the largest share of its areaGilchrist 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.
Bell
How many people live in Bell
- Population563 plus or minus 209
- Median age39.5 plus or minus 8.8
- Population under 18158 plus or minus 69
- Share under 1828.1 percent plus or minus 6.4
- Population 65 and over70 plus or minus 28
- Share 65 and over12.4 percent
- Households207 plus or minus 70
- Family households150 plus or minus 64
- Share of households that are families72.5 percent plus or minus 18.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bell
Income and work in Bell
- Median household income$65,938 plus or minus $25,368
- Per capita income$31,509 plus or minus $10,656
- Civilian labor force269 plus or minus 105
- Employed264 plus or minus 104
- Unemployed5 plus or minus 11
- Unemployment rate1.9 percent plus or minus 4.0
- Adults 25 and over382 plus or minus 132
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher77.0 percent plus or minus 35.6
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher11.0 percent plus or minus 8.1
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree1.3 percent plus or minus 4.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bell
Housing in Bell
- Housing units230 plus or minus 71
- Occupied units207 plus or minus 70
- Vacant units23 plus or minus 18
- Vacancy rate10.0 percent plus or minus 7.2
- Owner occupied152 plus or minus 61
- Renter occupied55 plus or minus 30
- Ownership rate73.4 percent plus or minus 15.9
- Median owner-occupied home value$171,800 plus or minus $39,294
- Median gross rent, monthly$963 plus or minus $410
- Annual rent as a share of median income17.5 percent plus or minus 10.1
- Single family units92 plus or minus 47
- Share single family40.0 percent plus or minus 16.5
- Units in buildings of two or more6 plus or minus 19
- Share in buildings of two or more2.6 percent plus or minus 8.0
- Mobile homes132 plus or minus 56
- Median year structure built1990
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bell
How Bell gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute251 plus or minus 101
- Commuting under 15 minutes63 plus or minus 51
- Share commuting under 15 minutes25.1 percent plus or minus 17.6
- Commuting 30 minutes or more105 plus or minus 48
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more41.8 percent plus or minus 9.4
- Drove alone65.4 percent
- Carpooled31.5 percent plus or minus 17.0
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home2.3 percent plus or minus 2.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bell
SBA 7(a) lending to Bell borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$50,000
- Average approval$50,000
- Median approval$50,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$50,000
- Largest approval$50,000
- Jobs supported0
- Jobs per approval0.0
- 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.
Gilchrist County, not Bell
Gilchrist County context, not Bell figures
These are Gilchrist County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Bell measurements.
- Establishments in Gilchrist County295
- Employment at those establishments, Gilchrist County2,222
- Covered employment, Gilchrist County3,814
- Average annual pay, Gilchrist County$46,829
- Average weekly wage, Gilchrist County$901
- Housing units permitted, Gilchrist County94
- Of those, single family, Gilchrist County94
- County product, 2024, Gilchrist County$576,381,000
- County product change over the prior year, Gilchrist County7.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Gilchrist County$59,249
Every figure in this section is published for Gilchrist County as a whole and is not a measurement of Bell. 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.
- 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
Bell questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Bell, Florida?
563, in 207 households. Bell town covers 1.64 square miles of land, which is 344 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Bell in?
Gilchrist 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 Bell?
$65,938. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $171,800. Median gross rent is $963 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Bell businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $50,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $50,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Bell, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Bell borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Bell. 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 Bell figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Gilchrist 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 Bell.
Is zoning published for Bell?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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