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Powder Springs city, Georgia: commercial real estate data.
Powder Springs city is a Census city of 18,009 people across 7.96 square miles of land, in Cobb County. Median household income is $105,070, 82.4 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 44 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $11.2 m.
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Powder Springs
What Powder Springs is
- Census place typecity
- Land area7.96 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land2,264
- County holding the largest share of its areaCobb 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.
Powder Springs
How many people live in Powder Springs
- Population18,009
- Median age41.1
- Population under 184,416
- Share under 1824.5 percent
- Population 65 and over2,494
- Share 65 and over13.8 percent
- Households6,493
- Family households4,454
- Share of households that are families68.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Powder Springs
Income and work in Powder Springs
- Median household income$105,070
- Per capita income$40,998
- Civilian labor force9,412
- Employed8,998
- Unemployed414 plus or minus 152
- Unemployment rate4.4 percent plus or minus 1.6
- Adults 25 and over12,240
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher92.3 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher41.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree15.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Powder Springs
Housing in Powder Springs
- Housing units6,965
- Occupied units6,493
- Vacant units472 plus or minus 225
- Vacancy rate6.8 percent plus or minus 3.2
- Owner occupied5,351
- Renter occupied1,142 plus or minus 273
- Ownership rate82.4 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$332,900
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,583
- Annual rent as a share of median income18.1 percent
- Single family units6,597
- Share single family94.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more351 plus or minus 169
- Share in buildings of two or more5.0 percent plus or minus 2.4
- Mobile homes17 plus or minus 20
- Median year structure built1996
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Powder Springs
How Powder Springs gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute6,864
- Commuting under 15 minutes951 plus or minus 291
- Share commuting under 15 minutes13.9 percent plus or minus 4.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more4,185
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more61.0 percent
- Drove alone69.9 percent
- Carpooled4.3 percent plus or minus 1.9
- Public transport0.1 percent plus or minus 0.2
- Walked0.4 percent plus or minus 0.6
- Worked from home22.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Powder Springs
SBA 7(a) lending to Powder Springs borrowers
- Approvals44
- Gross approval$11,218,500
- Average approval$254,966
- Median approval$150,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$616,000
- Largest approval$2,311,000
- Jobs supported310
- Jobs per approval7.0
- Loans with a final outcome6
- Paid in full2
- Charged off4
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more13.6 percent
- Share to franchises18.2 percent
- Distinct lenders22
- Distinct industries by NAICS35
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 6 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.
Powder Springs
SBA 504 lending to Powder Springs borrowers
- Approvals9
- Gross approval$7,139,000
- Average approval$793,222
- Median approval$677,000
- Largest approval$2,095,000
- Jobs supported60
- Loans with a final outcome3
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Distinct CDCs5
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Powder Springs
Flood programme status in Powder Springs
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- Best Community Rating System classClass 6
- NFIP community number130056
- Currently effective map date03/04/13
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Cobb County, not Powder Springs
Cobb County context, not Powder Springs figures
These are Cobb County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Powder Springs measurements.
- Establishments in Cobb County22,148
- Employment at those establishments, Cobb County376,117
- Covered employment, Cobb County384,275
- Average annual pay, Cobb County$77,531
- Average weekly wage, Cobb County$1,491
- Housing units permitted, Cobb County1,604
- Of those, single family, Cobb County1,143
- County product, 2024, Cobb County$81,868,771,000
- County product change over the prior year, Cobb County3.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Cobb County$75,190
Every figure in this section is published for Cobb County as a whole and is not a measurement of Powder Springs. 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
Powder Springs questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Powder Springs, Georgia?
18,009, in 6,493 households. Powder Springs city covers 7.96 square miles of land, which is 2,264 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Powder Springs in?
Cobb 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 Powder Springs?
$105,070. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $332,900. Median gross rent is $1,583 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Powder Springs businesses?
44 7(a) approvals totalling $11.2 m, across 22 lenders, median approval $150,000, plus 9 504 approvals worth $7.1 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Powder Springs, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Powder Springs borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Powder Springs. only 6 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 Powder Springs in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Powder Springs appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 130056, carrying Community Rating System class 6, which is a premium discount for exceeding the programme minimum. 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 Powder Springs figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Cobb 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 Powder Springs.
Is zoning published for Powder Springs?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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