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Okeechobee city, Florida: commercial real estate data.
Okeechobee city is a Census city of 5,479 people across 4.06 square miles of land, in Okeechobee County. Median household income is $57,044, 55.1 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 26 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $20.5 m.
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Okeechobee
What Okeechobee is
- Census place typecity
- Land area4.06 sq mi
- Water area0.1 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,351
- County holding the largest share of its areaOkeechobee 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.
Okeechobee
How many people live in Okeechobee
- Population5,479
- Median age38.4
- Population under 181,321 plus or minus 276
- Share under 1824.1 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Population 65 and over1,053
- Share 65 and over19.2 percent
- Households2,053
- Family households1,149
- Share of households that are families56.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Okeechobee
Income and work in Okeechobee
- Median household income$57,044
- Per capita income$27,942
- Civilian labor force2,574
- Employed2,495
- Unemployed79 plus or minus 41
- Unemployment rate3.1 percent plus or minus 1.5
- Adults 25 and over3,830
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher85.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher21.1 percent plus or minus 7.4
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree8.1 percent plus or minus 5.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Okeechobee
Housing in Okeechobee
- Housing units2,273
- Occupied units2,053
- Vacant units220 plus or minus 128
- Vacancy rate9.7 percent plus or minus 5.5
- Owner occupied1,132
- Renter occupied921 plus or minus 260
- Ownership rate55.1 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$197,700
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,061
- Annual rent as a share of median income22.3 percent
- Single family units1,504
- Share single family66.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more423 plus or minus 192
- Share in buildings of two or more18.6 percent plus or minus 8.2
- Mobile homes346 plus or minus 138
- Median year structure built1981
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Okeechobee
How Okeechobee gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute2,380
- Commuting under 15 minutes1,066 plus or minus 256
- Share commuting under 15 minutes44.8 percent plus or minus 9.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more780 plus or minus 256
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more32.8 percent plus or minus 9.8
- Drove alone78.0 percent
- Carpooled5.7 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Public transport6.8 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Walked0.8 percent plus or minus 1.1
- Worked from home2.8 percent plus or minus 2.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Okeechobee
SBA 7(a) lending to Okeechobee borrowers
- Approvals26
- Gross approval$20,476,300
- Average approval$787,550
- Median approval$650,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$2,163,000
- Largest approval$2,700,000
- Jobs supported698
- Jobs per approval26.8
- Loans with a final outcome5
- Paid in full5
- Charged off0
- Median term123 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more38.5 percent
- Share to franchises23.1 percent
- Distinct lenders17
- Distinct industries by NAICS17
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 5 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.
Okeechobee
SBA 504 lending to Okeechobee borrowers
- Approvals16
- Gross approval$9,994,000
- Average approval$624,625
- Median approval$658,000
- Largest approval$1,343,000
- Jobs supported122
- Loans with a final outcome2
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs3
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Okeechobee
Flood programme status in Okeechobee
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number120178
- Currently effective map date07/16/15
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.
Okeechobee County, not Okeechobee
Okeechobee County context, not Okeechobee figures
These are Okeechobee County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Okeechobee measurements.
- Establishments in Okeechobee County922
- Employment at those establishments, Okeechobee County7,980
- Covered employment, Okeechobee County12,349
- Average annual pay, Okeechobee County$48,406
- Average weekly wage, Okeechobee County$931
- Housing units permitted, Okeechobee County18
- Of those, single family, Okeechobee County18
- County product, 2024, Okeechobee County$2,754,409,000
- County product change over the prior year, Okeechobee County-0.5 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Okeechobee County$62,728
Every figure in this section is published for Okeechobee County as a whole and is not a measurement of Okeechobee. 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
Okeechobee questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Okeechobee, Florida?
5,479, in 2,053 households. Okeechobee city covers 4.06 square miles of land, which is 1,351 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Okeechobee in?
Okeechobee 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 Okeechobee?
$57,044. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $197,700. Median gross rent is $1,061 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Okeechobee businesses?
26 7(a) approvals totalling $20.5 m, across 17 lenders, median approval $650,000, plus 16 504 approvals worth $10.0 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Okeechobee, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Okeechobee borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Okeechobee. only 5 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 Okeechobee in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Okeechobee appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 120178, 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 Okeechobee figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Okeechobee 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 Okeechobee.
Is zoning published for Okeechobee?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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