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Babson Park CDP, Florida: commercial real estate data.
Babson Park CDP is a Census CDP of 1,093 people across 1.52 square miles of land, in Polk County. Median household income is $48,177, 95.8 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $100,000.
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Babson Park
What Babson Park is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area1.52 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land717 plus or minus 168
- County holding the largest share of its areaPolk 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.
Babson Park
How many people live in Babson Park
- Population1,093 plus or minus 256
- Median age32.7 plus or minus 8.0
- Population under 18101 plus or minus 68
- Share under 189.2 percent plus or minus 5.9
- Population 65 and over84 plus or minus 51
- Share 65 and over7.7 percent plus or minus 4.3
- Households312 plus or minus 122
- Family households200 plus or minus 116
- Share of households that are families64.1 percent plus or minus 27.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Babson Park
Income and work in Babson Park
- Median household income$48,177
- Per capita income$23,393 plus or minus $4,809
- Civilian labor force499 plus or minus 174
- Employed499 plus or minus 174
- Unemployed0
- Unemployment rate0.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over602 plus or minus 216
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher79.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher5.6 percent plus or minus 7.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Babson Park
- Housing units478 plus or minus 141
- Occupied units312 plus or minus 122
- Vacant units166 plus or minus 102
- Vacancy rate34.7 percent plus or minus 18.7
- Owner occupied299 plus or minus 119
- Renter occupied13 plus or minus 17
- Ownership rate95.8 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$211,100 plus or minus $51,801
- Single family units437 plus or minus 142
- Share single family91.4 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more6 plus or minus 18
- Share in buildings of two or more1.3 percent plus or minus 3.8
- Mobile homes35 plus or minus 53
- Median year structure built1975
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Babson Park gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute484 plus or minus 168
- Commuting under 15 minutes194 plus or minus 118
- Share commuting under 15 minutes40.1 percent plus or minus 20.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more90 plus or minus 69
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more18.6 percent plus or minus 12.7
- Drove alone75.1 percent
- Carpooled9.7 percent plus or minus 14.7
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked9.9 percent plus or minus 6.4
- Worked from home2.6 percent plus or minus 4.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Babson Park
SBA loans in Babson Park (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$100,000
- Average approval$100,000
- Median approval$100,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$100,000
- Largest approval$100,000
- Jobs supported6
- Jobs per approval6.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term95 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.
Polk County, not Babson Park
Polk County context, not Babson Park figures
These are Polk County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Babson Park measurements.
- Establishments in Polk County13,992
- Employment at those establishments, Polk County232,278
- Covered employment, Polk County260,590
- Average annual pay, Polk County$55,697
- Average weekly wage, Polk County$1,071
- Housing units permitted, Polk County10,384
- Of those, single family, Polk County8,514
- County product, 2024, Polk County$44,304,039,000
- County product change over the prior year, Polk County6.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Polk County$56,052
Every figure in this section is published for Polk County as a whole and is not a measurement of Babson Park. 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.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- 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
Babson Park questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Babson Park, Florida?
1,093, in 312 households. Babson Park CDP covers 1.52 square miles of land, which is 717 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Babson Park in?
Polk 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 Babson Park?
$48,177. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $211,100. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Babson Park businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $100,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $100,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Babson Park, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Babson Park borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Babson Park. 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 Babson Park figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Polk 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 Babson Park.
Is zoning published for Babson Park?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.