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Bowdon city, Georgia: commercial real estate data.
Bowdon city is a Census city of 2,006 people across 3.40 square miles of land, in Carroll County. Median household income is $65,337, 51.9 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 6 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $7.6 m.
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Bowdon
What Bowdon is
- Census place typecity
- Land area3.4 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land590 plus or minus 156
- County holding the largest share of its areaCarroll 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.
Bowdon
How many people live in Bowdon
- Population2,006 plus or minus 531
- Median age39.7 plus or minus 8.4
- Population under 18309 plus or minus 111
- Share under 1815.4 percent plus or minus 3.7
- Population 65 and over424 plus or minus 138
- Share 65 and over21.1 percent
- Households847 plus or minus 206
- Family households547 plus or minus 162
- Share of households that are families64.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bowdon
Income and work in Bowdon
- Median household income$65,337 plus or minus $27,287
- Per capita income$32,757 plus or minus $6,538
- Civilian labor force920 plus or minus 292
- Employed895 plus or minus 287
- Unemployed25 plus or minus 18
- Unemployment rate2.7 percent plus or minus 1.8
- Adults 25 and over1,404 plus or minus 354
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher76.6 percent plus or minus 26.3
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher13.7 percent plus or minus 3.9
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.2 percent plus or minus 2.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bowdon
Housing in Bowdon
- Housing units942 plus or minus 201
- Occupied units847 plus or minus 206
- Vacant units95 plus or minus 63
- Vacancy rate10.1 percent plus or minus 6.3
- Owner occupied440 plus or minus 142
- Renter occupied407 plus or minus 137
- Ownership rate51.9 percent plus or minus 11.0
- Median owner-occupied home value$167,500 plus or minus $105,913
- Median gross rent, monthly$919
- Annual rent as a share of median income16.9 percent plus or minus 7.2
- Single family units577 plus or minus 136
- Share single family61.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more139 plus or minus 70
- Share in buildings of two or more14.8 percent plus or minus 6.7
- Mobile homes226 plus or minus 146
- Median year structure built1975
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bowdon
How Bowdon gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute881 plus or minus 286
- Commuting under 15 minutes179 plus or minus 86
- Share commuting under 15 minutes20.3 percent plus or minus 7.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more333 plus or minus 171
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more37.8 percent plus or minus 15.0
- Drove alone86.3 percent
- Carpooled8.2 percent plus or minus 9.4
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked2.7 percent plus or minus 3.2
- Worked from home1.6 percent plus or minus 1.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bowdon
SBA loans in Bowdon (7(a))
- Approvals6
- Gross approval$7,572,000
- Average approval$1,262,000
- Median approval$1,250,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$3,750,000
- Largest approval$3,750,000
- Jobs supported408
- Jobs per approval68.0
- 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 lenders5
- Distinct industries by NAICS5
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.
Bowdon
Flood risk in Bowdon
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number130244
- Currently effective map date09/19/07(M)
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.
Carroll County, not Bowdon
Carroll County context, not Bowdon figures
These are Carroll County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Bowdon measurements.
- Establishments in Carroll County2,358
- Employment at those establishments, Carroll County43,788
- Covered employment, Carroll County45,530
- Average annual pay, Carroll County$56,823
- Average weekly wage, Carroll County$1,093
- Housing units permitted, Carroll County900
- Of those, single family, Carroll County730
- County product, 2024, Carroll County$7,905,686,000
- County product change over the prior year, Carroll County2.2 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Carroll County$54,176
Every figure in this section is published for Carroll County as a whole and is not a measurement of Bowdon. 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
Bowdon questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Bowdon, Georgia?
2,006, in 847 households. Bowdon city covers 3.40 square miles of land, which is 590 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Bowdon in?
Carroll 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 Bowdon?
$65,337. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $167,500. Median gross rent is $919 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Bowdon businesses?
6 7(a) approvals totalling $7.6 m, across 5 lenders, median approval $1,250,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Bowdon, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Bowdon borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Bowdon. 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 Bowdon in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Bowdon appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 130244, 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 Bowdon figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Carroll 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 Bowdon.
Is zoning published for Bowdon?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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