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Wewahitchka city, Florida: commercial real estate data.
Wewahitchka city is a Census city of 1,884 people across 6.70 square miles of land, in Gulf County. Median household income is $43,674, 57.7 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 3 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $319,000.
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Wewahitchka
What Wewahitchka is
- Census place typecity
- Land area6.7 sq mi
- Water area1.1 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land281 plus or minus 63
- County holding the largest share of its areaGulf 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.
Wewahitchka
How many people live in Wewahitchka
- Population1,884 plus or minus 420
- Median age30.6
- Population under 18580 plus or minus 164
- Share under 1830.8 percent
- Population 65 and over272 plus or minus 85
- Share 65 and over14.4 percent plus or minus 3.2
- Households813 plus or minus 184
- Family households551 plus or minus 150
- Share of households that are families67.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wewahitchka
Income and work in Wewahitchka
- Median household income$43,674 plus or minus $13,028
- Per capita income$26,983 plus or minus $6,603
- Civilian labor force904 plus or minus 246
- Employed886 plus or minus 243
- Unemployed18 plus or minus 21
- Unemployment rate2.0 percent plus or minus 2.3
- Adults 25 and over1,140 plus or minus 236
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher89.7 percent plus or minus 25.9
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher19.0 percent plus or minus 8.0
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.5 percent plus or minus 2.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wewahitchka
Housing in Wewahitchka
- Housing units1,093 plus or minus 220
- Occupied units813 plus or minus 184
- Vacant units280 plus or minus 114
- Vacancy rate25.6 percent plus or minus 9.1
- Owner occupied469 plus or minus 122
- Renter occupied344 plus or minus 134
- Ownership rate57.7 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$185,800
- Median gross rent, monthly$825 plus or minus $319
- Annual rent as a share of median income22.7 percent plus or minus 11.1
- Single family units548 plus or minus 174
- Share single family50.1 percent plus or minus 12.3
- Units in buildings of two or more161 plus or minus 74
- Share in buildings of two or more14.7 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Mobile homes368 plus or minus 131
- Median year structure built1987
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wewahitchka
How Wewahitchka gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute811 plus or minus 236
- Commuting under 15 minutes421 plus or minus 191
- Share commuting under 15 minutes51.9 percent plus or minus 18.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more330 plus or minus 114
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more40.7 percent
- Drove alone64.7 percent
- Carpooled13.0 percent plus or minus 4.4
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked13.3 percent plus or minus 16.5
- Worked from home7.8 percent plus or minus 4.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wewahitchka
SBA 7(a) lending to Wewahitchka borrowers
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$319,000
- Average approval$106,333
- Median approval$100,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$140,000
- Largest approval$140,000
- Jobs supported3
- Jobs per approval1.0
- 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 lenders3
- Distinct industries by NAICS3
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.
Wewahitchka
Flood programme status in Wewahitchka
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number120100
- Currently effective map date03/09/21
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.
Gulf County, not Wewahitchka
Gulf County context, not Wewahitchka figures
These are Gulf County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Wewahitchka measurements.
- Establishments in Gulf County405
- Employment at those establishments, Gulf County2,779
- Covered employment, Gulf County4,562
- Average annual pay, Gulf County$51,111
- Average weekly wage, Gulf County$983
- Housing units permitted, Gulf County302
- Of those, single family, Gulf County302
- County product, 2024, Gulf County$652,018,000
- County product change over the prior year, Gulf County6.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Gulf County$131,600
Every figure in this section is published for Gulf County as a whole and is not a measurement of Wewahitchka. 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
Wewahitchka questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Wewahitchka, Florida?
1,884, in 813 households. Wewahitchka city covers 6.70 square miles of land, which is 281 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Wewahitchka in?
Gulf 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 Wewahitchka?
$43,674. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $185,800. Median gross rent is $825 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Wewahitchka businesses?
3 7(a) approvals totalling $319,000, across 3 lenders, median approval $100,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Wewahitchka, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Wewahitchka borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Wewahitchka. 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 Wewahitchka in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Wewahitchka appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 120100, 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 Wewahitchka figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Gulf 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 Wewahitchka.
Is zoning published for Wewahitchka?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.