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Fair Bluff town, North Carolina: commercial real estate data.
Fair Bluff town is a Census town of 695 people across 2.36 square miles of land, in Columbus County. Median household income is $31,389, 69.4 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Fair Bluff
What Fair Bluff is
- Census place typetown
- Land area2.36 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land295 plus or minus 99
- County holding the largest share of its areaColumbus 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.
Fair Bluff
How many people live in Fair Bluff
- Population695 plus or minus 234
- Median age45.8 plus or minus 12.6
- Population under 18143 plus or minus 70
- Share under 1820.6 percent plus or minus 7.3
- Population 65 and over140 plus or minus 55
- Share 65 and over20.1 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Households310 plus or minus 96
- Family households161 plus or minus 63
- Share of households that are families51.9 percent plus or minus 12.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fair Bluff
Income and work in Fair Bluff
- Median household income$31,389 plus or minus $6,946
- Per capita income$22,976 plus or minus $4,999
- Civilian labor force337 plus or minus 155
- Employed323 plus or minus 151
- Unemployed14 plus or minus 12
- Unemployment rate4.2 percent plus or minus 3.0
- Adults 25 and over474 plus or minus 155
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher77.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher8.9 percent plus or minus 9.1
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.9 percent plus or minus 8.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fair Bluff
Housing in Fair Bluff
- Housing units464 plus or minus 110
- Occupied units310 plus or minus 96
- Vacant units154 plus or minus 57
- Vacancy rate33.2 percent plus or minus 9.4
- Owner occupied215 plus or minus 76
- Renter occupied95 plus or minus 51
- Ownership rate69.4 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$101,400 plus or minus $95,566
- Median gross rent, monthly$684
- Annual rent as a share of median income26.1 percent plus or minus 6.8
- Single family units247 plus or minus 70
- Share single family53.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more81 plus or minus 44
- Share in buildings of two or more17.5 percent plus or minus 8.5
- Mobile homes136 plus or minus 64
- Median year structure built1977
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fair Bluff
How Fair Bluff gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute317 plus or minus 150
- Commuting under 15 minutes106 plus or minus 99
- Share commuting under 15 minutes33.4 percent plus or minus 27.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more67 plus or minus 40
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more21.1 percent plus or minus 7.9
- Drove alone91.5 percent
- Carpooled8.5 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fair Bluff
Flood risk in Fair Bluff
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number370067
- Currently effective map date12/06/19
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.
Columbus County, not Fair Bluff
Columbus County context, not Fair Bluff figures
These are Columbus County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Fair Bluff measurements.
- Establishments in Columbus County997
- Employment at those establishments, Columbus County11,658
- Covered employment, Columbus County14,466
- Average annual pay, Columbus County$47,896
- Average weekly wage, Columbus County$921
- Housing units permitted, Columbus County55
- Of those, single family, Columbus County55
- County product, 2024, Columbus County$1,917,692,000
- County product change over the prior year, Columbus County1.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Columbus County$40,996
Every figure in this section is published for Columbus County as a whole and is not a measurement of Fair Bluff. 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
Fair Bluff questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Fair Bluff, North Carolina?
695, in 310 households. Fair Bluff town covers 2.36 square miles of land, which is 295 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Fair Bluff in?
Columbus 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 Fair Bluff?
$31,389. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $101,400. Median gross rent is $684 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Is Fair Bluff in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Fair Bluff appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 370067, 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 Fair Bluff figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Columbus 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 Fair Bluff.
Is zoning published for Fair Bluff?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.