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Wildwood city, Florida: commercial real estate data.
Wildwood city is a Census city of 17,608 people across 58.31 square miles of land, in Sumter County. Median household income is $76,552, 77.3 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 16 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $17.6 m.
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Wildwood
What Wildwood is
- Census place typecity
- Land area58.31 sq mi
- Water area1.1 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land302
- County holding the largest share of its areaSumter 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.
Wildwood
How many people live in Wildwood
- Population17,608
- Median age64.2
- Population under 181,808
- Share under 1810.3 percent
- Population 65 and over8,273
- Share 65 and over47.0 percent
- Households9,228
- Family households5,689
- Share of households that are families61.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wildwood
Income and work in Wildwood
- Median household income$76,552
- Per capita income$52,830
- Civilian labor force5,804
- Employed5,366
- Unemployed438 plus or minus 205
- Unemployment rate7.5 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Adults 25 and over15,287
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher94.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher39.9 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree13.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wildwood
Housing in Wildwood
- Housing units11,127
- Occupied units9,228
- Vacant units1,899
- Vacancy rate17.1 percent
- Owner occupied7,136
- Renter occupied2,092 plus or minus 466
- Ownership rate77.3 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$451,600
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,519 plus or minus $314
- Annual rent as a share of median income23.8 percent plus or minus 5.5
- Single family units8,890
- Share single family79.9 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more1,213 plus or minus 444
- Share in buildings of two or more10.9 percent plus or minus 4.0
- Mobile homes1,024 plus or minus 248
- Median year structure built2017
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wildwood
How Wildwood gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute4,397
- Commuting under 15 minutes1,080 plus or minus 262
- Share commuting under 15 minutes24.6 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Commuting 30 minutes or more1,165 plus or minus 293
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more26.5 percent plus or minus 5.6
- Drove alone59.2 percent
- Carpooled16.6 percent plus or minus 5.6
- Public transport0.3 percent plus or minus 0.6
- Walked1.0 percent plus or minus 1.3
- Worked from home18.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wildwood
SBA 7(a) lending to Wildwood borrowers
- Approvals16
- Gross approval$17,631,800
- Average approval$1,101,988
- Median approval$462,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$3,450,000
- Largest approval$3,656,800
- Jobs supported186
- Jobs per approval11.6
- Loans with a final outcome3
- Paid in full3
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more25.0 percent
- Share to franchises31.3 percent
- Distinct lenders14
- Distinct industries by NAICS13
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 3 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.
Wildwood
SBA 504 lending to Wildwood borrowers
- Approvals9
- Gross approval$13,447,000
- Average approval$1,494,111
- Median approval$1,188,000
- Largest approval$2,968,000
- Jobs supported94
- Loans with a final outcome3
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Distinct CDCs3
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Wildwood
Flood programme status in Wildwood
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number120299
- Currently effective map date06/05/20
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.
Sumter County, not Wildwood
Sumter County context, not Wildwood figures
These are Sumter County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Wildwood measurements.
- Establishments in Sumter County2,081
- Employment at those establishments, Sumter County31,813
- Covered employment, Sumter County40,436
- Average annual pay, Sumter County$57,856
- Average weekly wage, Sumter County$1,113
- Housing units permitted, Sumter County3,961
- Of those, single family, Sumter County3,537
- County product, 2024, Sumter County$7,558,509,000
- County product change over the prior year, Sumter County10.3 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Sumter County$121,395
Every figure in this section is published for Sumter County as a whole and is not a measurement of Wildwood. 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
Wildwood questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Wildwood, Florida?
17,608, in 9,228 households. Wildwood city covers 58.31 square miles of land, which is 302 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Wildwood in?
Sumter 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 Wildwood?
$76,552. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $451,600. Median gross rent is $1,519 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Wildwood businesses?
16 7(a) approvals totalling $17.6 m, across 14 lenders, median approval $462,000, plus 9 504 approvals worth $13.4 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Wildwood, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Wildwood borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Wildwood. only 3 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 Wildwood in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Wildwood appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 120299, 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 Wildwood figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Sumter 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 Wildwood.
Is zoning published for Wildwood?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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