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Wells CDP, New York: commercial real estate data.
Wells CDP is a Census CDP of 581 people across 7.72 square miles of land, in Hamilton County. Median household income is $87,946, 95.5 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $10,300.
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Wells
What Wells is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area7.72 sq mi
- Water area0.62 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land75 plus or minus 15
- County holding the largest share of its areaHamilton 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.
Wells
How many people live in Wells
- Population581 plus or minus 117
- Median age59.3
- Population under 1889 plus or minus 32
- Share under 1815.3 percent plus or minus 4.5
- Population 65 and over161 plus or minus 58
- Share 65 and over27.7 percent plus or minus 8.3
- Households223 plus or minus 49
- Family households184 plus or minus 47
- Share of households that are families82.5 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wells
Income and work in Wells
- Median household income$87,946 plus or minus $19,058
- Per capita income$40,913 plus or minus $8,569
- Civilian labor force220 plus or minus 62
- Employed201 plus or minus 59
- Unemployed19 plus or minus 22
- Unemployment rate8.6 percent plus or minus 9.7
- Adults 25 and over466 plus or minus 96
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher78.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher23.0 percent plus or minus 9.7
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree12.0 percent plus or minus 8.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wells
Housing in Wells
- Housing units544
- Occupied units223 plus or minus 49
- Vacant units321
- Vacancy rate59.0 percent
- Owner occupied213 plus or minus 48
- Renter occupied10 plus or minus 12
- Ownership rate95.5 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$272,900
- Single family units451
- Share single family82.9 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more13 plus or minus 24
- Share in buildings of two or more2.4 percent plus or minus 4.3
- Mobile homes80 plus or minus 37
- Median year structure built1972
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wells
How Wells gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute193 plus or minus 60
- Commuting under 15 minutes32 plus or minus 15
- Share commuting under 15 minutes16.6 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more119 plus or minus 43
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more61.7 percent
- Drove alone94.5 percent
- Carpooled1.5 percent plus or minus 1.4
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home4.0 percent plus or minus 2.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wells
SBA 7(a) lending to Wells borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$10,300
- Average approval$10,300
- Median approval$10,300
- Ninetieth percentile approval$10,300
- Largest approval$10,300
- Jobs supported1
- Jobs per approval1.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term36 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.
Wells
Flood programme status in Wells
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number361112
- Currently effective map date06/03/86(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.
Hamilton County, not Wells
Hamilton County context, not Wells figures
These are Hamilton County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Wells measurements.
- Establishments in Hamilton County188
- Employment at those establishments, Hamilton County936
- Covered employment, Hamilton County1,634
- Average annual pay, Hamilton County$49,916
- Average weekly wage, Hamilton County$960
- Housing units permitted, Hamilton County41
- Of those, single family, Hamilton County41
- County product, 2024, Hamilton County$297,399,000
- County product change over the prior year, Hamilton County1.3 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Hamilton County$106,424
Every figure in this section is published for Hamilton County as a whole and is not a measurement of Wells. 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.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- 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
Wells questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Wells, New York?
581, in 223 households. Wells CDP covers 7.72 square miles of land, which is 75 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Wells in?
Hamilton 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 Wells?
$87,946. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $272,900. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Wells businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $10,300, across 1 lenders, median approval $10,300. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Wells, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Wells borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Wells. 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 Wells in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Wells appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 361112, 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 Wells figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Hamilton 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 Wells.
Is zoning published for Wells?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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