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Port Deposit town, Maryland: commercial real estate data.
Port Deposit town is a Census town of 491 people across 2.32 square miles of land, in Cecil County. Median household income is $58,750, 49.3 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 2 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.0 m.
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Port Deposit
What Port Deposit is
- Census place typetown
- Land area2.32 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land211 plus or minus 63
- County holding the largest share of its areaCecil 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.
Port Deposit
How many people live in Port Deposit
- Population491 plus or minus 147
- Median age39.4
- Population under 1866 plus or minus 45
- Share under 1813.4 percent plus or minus 8.1
- Population 65 and over67 plus or minus 29
- Share 65 and over13.6 percent plus or minus 4.3
- Households272 plus or minus 81
- Family households112 plus or minus 48
- Share of households that are families41.2 percent plus or minus 12.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Port Deposit
Income and work in Port Deposit
- Median household income$58,750 plus or minus $22,454
- Per capita income$44,311 plus or minus $10,178
- Civilian labor force288 plus or minus 100
- Employed281 plus or minus 97
- Unemployed7 plus or minus 11
- Unemployment rate2.4 percent plus or minus 3.7
- Adults 25 and over363 plus or minus 104
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher96.4 percent plus or minus 35.1
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher25.9 percent plus or minus 6.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree13.8 percent plus or minus 6.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Port Deposit
Housing in Port Deposit
- Housing units419 plus or minus 112
- Occupied units272 plus or minus 81
- Vacant units147 plus or minus 80
- Vacancy rate35.1 percent plus or minus 16.6
- Owner occupied134 plus or minus 46
- Renter occupied138 plus or minus 60
- Ownership rate49.3 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$278,600
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,229
- Annual rent as a share of median income25.1 percent plus or minus 10.1
- Single family units177 plus or minus 69
- Share single family42.2 percent plus or minus 11.9
- Units in buildings of two or more242 plus or minus 86
- Share in buildings of two or more57.8 percent plus or minus 13.5
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1973
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Port Deposit
How Port Deposit gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute258 plus or minus 94
- Commuting under 15 minutes26 plus or minus 23
- Share commuting under 15 minutes10.1 percent plus or minus 8.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more151 plus or minus 55
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more58.5 percent
- Drove alone69.5 percent
- Carpooled17.2 percent plus or minus 13.0
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home7.5 percent plus or minus 6.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Port Deposit
SBA 7(a) lending to Port Deposit borrowers
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$1,004,300
- Average approval$502,150
- Median approval$654,300
- Ninetieth percentile approval$654,300
- Largest approval$654,300
- Jobs supported6
- Jobs per approval3.0
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more50.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders2
- Distinct industries by NAICS2
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.
Cecil County, not Port Deposit
Cecil County context, not Port Deposit figures
These are Cecil County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Port Deposit measurements.
- Establishments in Cecil County1,776
- Employment at those establishments, Cecil County29,700
- Covered employment, Cecil County36,713
- Average annual pay, Cecil County$63,481
- Average weekly wage, Cecil County$1,221
- Housing units permitted, Cecil County561
- Of those, single family, Cecil County231
- County product, 2024, Cecil County$7,154,200,000
- County product change over the prior year, Cecil County1.4 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Cecil County$70,507
Every figure in this section is published for Cecil County as a whole and is not a measurement of Port Deposit. 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.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- 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
Port Deposit questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Port Deposit, Maryland?
491, in 272 households. Port Deposit town covers 2.32 square miles of land, which is 211 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Port Deposit in?
Cecil 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 Port Deposit?
$58,750. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $278,600. Median gross rent is $1,229 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Port Deposit businesses?
2 7(a) approvals totalling $1.0 m, across 2 lenders, median approval $654,300. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Port Deposit, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Port Deposit borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Port Deposit. 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.
Are the county figures on this page Port Deposit figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Cecil 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 Port Deposit.
Is zoning published for Port Deposit?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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