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Catawba town is a Census town of 628 people across 4.64 square miles of land, in Catawba County. Median household income is $47,250, 71.3 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Catawba
What Catawba is
- Census place typetown
- Land area4.64 sq mi
- Water area0.07 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land135 plus or minus 44
- County holding the largest share of its areaCatawba 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.
Catawba
How many people live in Catawba
- Population628 plus or minus 205
- Median age35.8 plus or minus 11.1
- Population under 18121 plus or minus 55
- Share under 1819.3 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Population 65 and over41 plus or minus 27
- Share 65 and over6.5 percent plus or minus 3.7
- Households328 plus or minus 138
- Family households139 plus or minus 54
- Share of households that are families42.4 percent plus or minus 24.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Catawba
Income and work in Catawba
- Median household income$47,250 plus or minus $39,733
- Per capita income$31,543 plus or minus $7,874
- Civilian labor force300 plus or minus 96
- Employed280 plus or minus 90
- Unemployed20 plus or minus 19
- Unemployment rate6.7 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Adults 25 and over443 plus or minus 156
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher79.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher11.1 percent plus or minus 6.6
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.4 percent plus or minus 3.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Catawba
- Housing units393 plus or minus 145
- Occupied units328 plus or minus 138
- Vacant units65 plus or minus 40
- Vacancy rate16.5 percent plus or minus 8.1
- Owner occupied234 plus or minus 91
- Renter occupied94 plus or minus 115
- Ownership rate71.3 percent plus or minus 40.9
- Median owner-occupied home value$163,000 plus or minus $45,535
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,118
- Annual rent as a share of median income28.4 percent plus or minus 23.9
- Single family units352 plus or minus 135
- Share single family89.6 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more18 plus or minus 25
- Share in buildings of two or more4.6 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Mobile homes23 plus or minus 23
- Median year structure built1957
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Catawba
How Catawba gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute262 plus or minus 89
- Commuting under 15 minutes23 plus or minus 20
- Share commuting under 15 minutes8.8 percent plus or minus 7.1
- Commuting 30 minutes or more116 plus or minus 65
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more44.3 percent plus or minus 19.6
- Drove alone88.4 percent
- Carpooled4.3 percent plus or minus 4.5
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home5.4 percent plus or minus 5.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Catawba
Flood risk in Catawba
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number370052
- Currently effective map date07/07/09
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.
Catawba County, not Catawba
Catawba County context, not Catawba figures
These are Catawba County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Catawba measurements.
- Establishments in Catawba County4,349
- Employment at those establishments, Catawba County85,704
- Covered employment, Catawba County89,388
- Average annual pay, Catawba County$55,761
- Average weekly wage, Catawba County$1,072
- Housing units permitted, Catawba County2,016
- Of those, single family, Catawba County1,651
- County product, 2024, Catawba County$12,403,358,000
- County product change over the prior year, Catawba County4.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Catawba County$69,189
Every figure in this section is published for Catawba County as a whole and is not a measurement of Catawba. 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 SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- 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
Catawba questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Catawba, North Carolina?
628, in 328 households. Catawba town covers 4.64 square miles of land, which is 135 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Catawba in?
Catawba 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 Catawba?
$47,250. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $163,000. Median gross rent is $1,118 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Is Catawba in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Catawba appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 370052, 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 Catawba figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Catawba 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 Catawba.
Is zoning published for Catawba?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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