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Porterdale city, Georgia: commercial real estate data.
Porterdale city is a Census city of 1,466 people across 2.38 square miles of land, in Newton County. Median household income is $49,773, 31.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $50,000.
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Porterdale
What Porterdale is
- Census place typecity
- Land area2.38 sq mi
- Water area0.05 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land616 plus or minus 210
- County holding the largest share of its areaNewton 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.
Porterdale
How many people live in Porterdale
- Population1,466 plus or minus 500
- Median age43.7 plus or minus 13.7
- Population under 18392 plus or minus 147
- Share under 1826.7 percent
- Population 65 and over256 plus or minus 91
- Share 65 and over17.5 percent
- Households678 plus or minus 232
- Family households427 plus or minus 208
- Share of households that are families63.0 percent plus or minus 21.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Porterdale
Income and work in Porterdale
- Median household income$49,773 plus or minus $21,675
- Per capita income$24,396 plus or minus $5,513
- Civilian labor force560 plus or minus 214
- Employed540 plus or minus 217
- Unemployed20 plus or minus 21
- Unemployment rate3.6 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Adults 25 and over1,047 plus or minus 365
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher71.7 percent plus or minus 31.6
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher18.8 percent plus or minus 8.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree6.1 percent plus or minus 5.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Porterdale
Housing in Porterdale
- Housing units690 plus or minus 234
- Occupied units678 plus or minus 232
- Vacant units12 plus or minus 17
- Vacancy rate1.7 percent plus or minus 2.4
- Owner occupied214 plus or minus 92
- Renter occupied464 plus or minus 217
- Ownership rate31.6 percent plus or minus 8.2
- Median owner-occupied home value$199,000 plus or minus $40,280
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,176
- Annual rent as a share of median income28.4 percent plus or minus 12.8
- Single family units525 plus or minus 205
- Share single family76.1 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more160 plus or minus 85
- Share in buildings of two or more23.2 percent plus or minus 9.4
- Mobile homes5 plus or minus 8
- Median year structure built1938
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Porterdale
How Porterdale gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute464 plus or minus 192
- Commuting under 15 minutes40 plus or minus 42
- Share commuting under 15 minutes8.6 percent plus or minus 8.3
- Commuting 30 minutes or more139 plus or minus 75
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more30.0 percent plus or minus 10.4
- Drove alone63.0 percent plus or minus 18.4
- Carpooled21.9 percent plus or minus 9.8
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked1.1 percent plus or minus 2.2
- Worked from home14.1 percent plus or minus 13.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Porterdale
SBA loans in Porterdale (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$50,000
- Average approval$50,000
- Median approval$50,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$50,000
- Largest approval$50,000
- Jobs supported3
- Jobs per approval3.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
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.
Porterdale
Flood risk in Porterdale
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number130145
- Currently effective map date03/17/14
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.
Newton County, not Porterdale
Newton County context, not Porterdale figures
These are Newton County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Porterdale measurements.
- Establishments in Newton County1,639
- Employment at those establishments, Newton County23,931
- Covered employment, Newton County27,708
- Average annual pay, Newton County$54,919
- Average weekly wage, Newton County$1,056
- Housing units permitted, Newton County1,464
- Of those, single family, Newton County688
- County product, 2024, Newton County$4,592,212,000
- County product change over the prior year, Newton County8.3 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Newton County$48,866
Every figure in this section is published for Newton County as a whole and is not a measurement of Porterdale. 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
Porterdale questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Porterdale, Georgia?
1,466, in 678 households. Porterdale city covers 2.38 square miles of land, which is 616 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Porterdale in?
Newton 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 Porterdale?
$49,773. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $199,000. Median gross rent is $1,176 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Porterdale businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $50,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $50,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Porterdale, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Porterdale borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Porterdale. 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 Porterdale in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Porterdale appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 130145, 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 Porterdale figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Newton 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 Porterdale.
Is zoning published for Porterdale?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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