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Waleska city, Georgia: commercial real estate data.
Waleska city is a Census city of 808 people across 1.71 square miles of land, in Cherokee County. Median household income is $56,250, 46.3 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 8 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $6.1 m.
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Waleska
What Waleska is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.71 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land473
- County holding the largest share of its areaCherokee 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.
Waleska
How many people live in Waleska
- Population808
- Median age21.4
- Population under 1879 plus or minus 54
- Share under 189.8 percent plus or minus 6.5
- Population 65 and over67 plus or minus 40
- Share 65 and over8.3 percent plus or minus 4.7
- Households147 plus or minus 75
- Family households99 plus or minus 66
- Share of households that are families67.3 percent plus or minus 28.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Waleska
Income and work in Waleska
- Median household income$56,250 plus or minus $37,945
- Per capita income$16,978 plus or minus $3,657
- Civilian labor force415 plus or minus 102
- Employed394 plus or minus 112
- Unemployed21 plus or minus 24
- Unemployment rate5.1 percent plus or minus 5.6
- Adults 25 and over236 plus or minus 96
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher91.9 percent plus or minus 50.7
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher25.8 percent plus or minus 7.2
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree13.1 percent plus or minus 7.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Waleska
Housing in Waleska
- Housing units150 plus or minus 75
- Occupied units147 plus or minus 75
- Vacant units3 plus or minus 4
- Vacancy rate2.0 percent plus or minus 2.5
- Owner occupied68 plus or minus 42
- Renter occupied79 plus or minus 61
- Ownership rate46.3 percent plus or minus 16.1
- Median owner-occupied home value$483,300 plus or minus $328,757
- Median gross rent, monthly$879 plus or minus $318
- Annual rent as a share of median income18.8 percent plus or minus 14.4
- Single family units147 plus or minus 76
- Share single family98.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more1 plus or minus 15
- Share in buildings of two or more0.7 percent plus or minus 9.7
- Mobile homes2 plus or minus 4
- Median year structure built1964
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Waleska
How Waleska gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute316 plus or minus 86
- Commuting under 15 minutes119 plus or minus 79
- Share commuting under 15 minutes37.7 percent plus or minus 22.8
- Commuting 30 minutes or more45 plus or minus 29
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more14.2 percent plus or minus 8.4
- Drove alone55.9 percent plus or minus 11.5
- Carpooled2.3 percent plus or minus 3.8
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked21.8 percent plus or minus 12.4
- Worked from home19.0 percent plus or minus 17.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Waleska
SBA 7(a) lending to Waleska borrowers
- Approvals8
- Gross approval$6,095,600
- Average approval$761,950
- Median approval$350,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$4,072,500
- Largest approval$4,072,500
- Jobs supported96
- Jobs per approval12.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more25.0 percent
- Share to franchises37.5 percent
- Distinct lenders6
- Distinct industries by NAICS6
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.
Waleska
SBA 504 lending to Waleska borrowers
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$1,246,000
- Average approval$623,000
- Median approval$631,000
- Largest approval$631,000
- Jobs supported4
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Distinct CDCs2
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Waleska
Flood programme status in Waleska
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number130031
- Currently effective map date06/07/19(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.
Cherokee County, not Waleska
Cherokee County context, not Waleska figures
These are Cherokee County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Waleska measurements.
- Establishments in Cherokee County6,550
- Employment at those establishments, Cherokee County67,429
- Covered employment, Cherokee County74,280
- Average annual pay, Cherokee County$54,283
- Average weekly wage, Cherokee County$1,044
- Housing units permitted, Cherokee County2,665
- Of those, single family, Cherokee County1,796
- County product, 2024, Cherokee County$13,256,652,000
- County product change over the prior year, Cherokee County9.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Cherokee County$90,694
Every figure in this section is published for Cherokee County as a whole and is not a measurement of Waleska. 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
Waleska questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Waleska, Georgia?
808, in 147 households. Waleska city covers 1.71 square miles of land, which is 473 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Waleska in?
Cherokee 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 Waleska?
$56,250. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $483,300. Median gross rent is $879 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Waleska businesses?
8 7(a) approvals totalling $6.1 m, across 6 lenders, median approval $350,000, plus 2 504 approvals worth $1.2 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Waleska, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Waleska borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Waleska. 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.
Is Waleska in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Waleska appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 130031, 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 Waleska figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Cherokee 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 Waleska.
Is zoning published for Waleska?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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