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Wauchula city, Florida: commercial real estate data.
Wauchula city is a Census city of 4,927 people across 3.27 square miles of land, in Hardee County. Median household income is $53,013, 43.2 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 3 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.7 m.
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Wauchula
What Wauchula is
- Census place typecity
- Land area3.27 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,508
- County holding the largest share of its areaHardee 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.
Wauchula
How many people live in Wauchula
- Population4,927
- Median age28.8 plus or minus 11.9
- Population under 181,936 plus or minus 419
- Share under 1839.3 percent plus or minus 8.5
- Population 65 and over515 plus or minus 204
- Share 65 and over10.5 percent plus or minus 4.1
- Households1,658
- Family households1,222
- Share of households that are families73.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wauchula
Income and work in Wauchula
- Median household income$53,013 plus or minus $27,915
- Per capita income$25,650 plus or minus $5,523
- Civilian labor force1,761
- Employed1,758
- Unemployed3 plus or minus 9
- Unemployment rate0.2 percent plus or minus 0.5
- Adults 25 and over2,590
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher80.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher9.3 percent plus or minus 5.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree1.7 percent plus or minus 1.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wauchula
Housing in Wauchula
- Housing units1,881
- Occupied units1,658
- Vacant units223 plus or minus 144
- Vacancy rate11.9 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Owner occupied716 plus or minus 260
- Renter occupied942 plus or minus 293
- Ownership rate43.2 percent plus or minus 14.5
- Median owner-occupied home value$191,800 plus or minus $43,898
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,017
- Annual rent as a share of median income23.0 percent plus or minus 12.5
- Single family units864 plus or minus 269
- Share single family45.9 percent plus or minus 12.7
- Units in buildings of two or more967 plus or minus 321
- Share in buildings of two or more51.4 percent plus or minus 15.4
- Mobile homes50 plus or minus 69
- Median year structure built1991
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wauchula
How Wauchula gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,754
- Commuting under 15 minutes568 plus or minus 304
- Share commuting under 15 minutes32.4 percent plus or minus 16.5
- Commuting 30 minutes or more665 plus or minus 267
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more37.9 percent plus or minus 13.9
- Drove alone66.3 percent
- Carpooled27.2 percent plus or minus 16.4
- Public transport0.6 percent plus or minus 2.0
- Walked4.4 percent plus or minus 7.9
- Worked from home0.2 percent plus or minus 0.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wauchula
SBA 7(a) lending to Wauchula borrowers
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$1,695,000
- Average approval$565,000
- Median approval$390,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,170,000
- Largest approval$1,170,000
- Jobs supported5
- Jobs per approval1.7
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more33.3 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders3
- Distinct industries by NAICS3
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 1 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.
Wauchula
SBA 504 lending to Wauchula borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$179,000
- Average approval$179,000
- Median approval$179,000
- Largest approval$179,000
- Jobs supported2
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Distinct CDCs1
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Wauchula
Flood programme status in Wauchula
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number120105
- Currently effective map date11/06/13
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.
Hardee County, not Wauchula
Hardee County context, not Wauchula figures
These are Hardee County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Wauchula measurements.
- Establishments in Hardee County436
- Employment at those establishments, Hardee County4,829
- Covered employment, Hardee County7,044
- Average annual pay, Hardee County$47,192
- Average weekly wage, Hardee County$908
- Housing units permitted, Hardee County123
- Of those, single family, Hardee County101
- County product, 2024, Hardee County$1,475,532,000
- County product change over the prior year, Hardee County-1.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Hardee County$60,678
Every figure in this section is published for Hardee County as a whole and is not a measurement of Wauchula. 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
Wauchula questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Wauchula, Florida?
4,927, in 1,658 households. Wauchula city covers 3.27 square miles of land, which is 1,508 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Wauchula in?
Hardee 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 Wauchula?
$53,013. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $191,800. Median gross rent is $1,017 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Wauchula businesses?
3 7(a) approvals totalling $1.7 m, across 3 lenders, median approval $390,000, plus 1 504 approvals worth $179,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Wauchula, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Wauchula borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Wauchula. only 1 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 Wauchula in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Wauchula appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 120105, 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 Wauchula figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Hardee 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 Wauchula.
Is zoning published for Wauchula?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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