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Welaka town, Florida: commercial real estate data.
Welaka town is a Census town of 1,082 people across 1.48 square miles of land, in Putnam County. Median household income is $54,830, 80.5 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Welaka
What Welaka is
- Census place typetown
- Land area1.48 sq mi
- Water area0.04 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land729 plus or minus 259
- County holding the largest share of its areaPutnam 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.
Welaka
How many people live in Welaka
- Population1,082 plus or minus 385
- Median age53.5 plus or minus 13.5
- Population under 18156 plus or minus 101
- Share under 1814.4 percent plus or minus 7.8
- Population 65 and over411 plus or minus 180
- Share 65 and over38.0 percent plus or minus 9.7
- Households579 plus or minus 209
- Family households242 plus or minus 104
- Share of households that are families41.8 percent plus or minus 9.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Welaka
Income and work in Welaka
- Median household income$54,830 plus or minus $23,116
- Per capita income$33,576 plus or minus $8,977
- Civilian labor force423 plus or minus 153
- Employed393 plus or minus 144
- Unemployed30 plus or minus 25
- Unemployment rate7.1 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Adults 25 and over829 plus or minus 231
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher87.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher11.7 percent plus or minus 3.4
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree7.4 percent plus or minus 3.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Welaka
Housing in Welaka
- Housing units812 plus or minus 223
- Occupied units579 plus or minus 209
- Vacant units233 plus or minus 59
- Vacancy rate28.7 percent plus or minus 10.7
- Owner occupied466 plus or minus 175
- Renter occupied113 plus or minus 72
- Ownership rate80.5 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$283,100
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,050
- Annual rent as a share of median income23.0 percent plus or minus 10.5
- Single family units418 plus or minus 208
- Share single family51.5 percent plus or minus 21.3
- Units in buildings of two or more167 plus or minus 51
- Share in buildings of two or more20.6 percent
- Mobile homes227 plus or minus 65
- Median year structure built1987
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Welaka
How Welaka gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute370 plus or minus 139
- Commuting under 15 minutes112 plus or minus 90
- Share commuting under 15 minutes30.3 percent plus or minus 21.6
- Commuting 30 minutes or more209 plus or minus 83
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more56.5 percent
- Drove alone74.6 percent
- Carpooled16.5 percent plus or minus 15.7
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.8 percent plus or minus 1.2
- Worked from home5.9 percent plus or minus 4.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Welaka
Flood risk in Welaka
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number120668
- Currently effective map date02/02/12
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.
Putnam County, not Welaka
Putnam County context, not Welaka figures
These are Putnam County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Welaka measurements.
- Establishments in Putnam County1,331
- Employment at those establishments, Putnam County13,231
- Covered employment, Putnam County17,320
- Average annual pay, Putnam County$51,592
- Average weekly wage, Putnam County$992
- Housing units permitted, Putnam County110
- Of those, single family, Putnam County110
- County product, 2024, Putnam County$3,499,385,000
- County product change over the prior year, Putnam County1.5 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Putnam County$51,167
Every figure in this section is published for Putnam County as a whole and is not a measurement of Welaka. 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.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- 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
Welaka questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Welaka, Florida?
1,082, in 579 households. Welaka town covers 1.48 square miles of land, which is 729 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Welaka in?
Putnam 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 Welaka?
$54,830. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $283,100. Median gross rent is $1,050 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Is Welaka in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Welaka appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 120668, 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 Welaka figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Putnam 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 Welaka.
Is zoning published for Welaka?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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