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Bessemer City city, North Carolina: commercial real estate data.
Bessemer City city is a Census city of 5,580 people across 5.69 square miles of land, in Gaston County. Median household income is $60,300, 66.0 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 3 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $4.6 m.
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Bessemer City
What Bessemer City is
- Census place typecity
- Land area5.69 sq mi
- Water area0.06 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land981
- County holding the largest share of its areaGaston 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.
Bessemer City
How many people live in Bessemer City
- Population5,580
- Median age34.3
- Population under 181,272 plus or minus 286
- Share under 1822.8 percent plus or minus 5.1
- Population 65 and over941 plus or minus 212
- Share 65 and over16.9 percent plus or minus 3.8
- Households2,082
- Family households1,446
- Share of households that are families69.5 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bessemer City
Income and work in Bessemer City
- Median household income$60,300 plus or minus $13,103
- Per capita income$28,527
- Civilian labor force2,807
- Employed2,641
- Unemployed166 plus or minus 95
- Unemployment rate5.9 percent plus or minus 3.3
- Adults 25 and over3,847
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher82.9 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher16.1 percent plus or minus 4.7
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree5.3 percent plus or minus 3.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bessemer City
Housing in Bessemer City
- Housing units2,390
- Occupied units2,082
- Vacant units308 plus or minus 159
- Vacancy rate12.9 percent plus or minus 6.5
- Owner occupied1,374
- Renter occupied708 plus or minus 194
- Ownership rate66.0 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$206,100
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,053
- Annual rent as a share of median income21.0 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Single family units2,007
- Share single family84.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more284 plus or minus 141
- Share in buildings of two or more11.9 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Mobile homes99 plus or minus 85
- Median year structure built1968
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bessemer City
How Bessemer City gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute2,360
- Commuting under 15 minutes438 plus or minus 192
- Share commuting under 15 minutes18.6 percent plus or minus 7.8
- Commuting 30 minutes or more879 plus or minus 224
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more37.2 percent plus or minus 8.2
- Drove alone76.4 percent
- Carpooled16.0 percent plus or minus 10.6
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home7.1 percent plus or minus 3.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bessemer City
SBA loans in Bessemer City (7(a))
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$4,635,300
- Average approval$1,545,100
- Median approval$1,152,900
- Ninetieth percentile approval$3,472,400
- Largest approval$3,472,400
- Jobs supported40
- Jobs per approval13.3
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more66.7 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders3
- Distinct industries by NAICS3
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.
Bessemer City
Flood risk in Bessemer City
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number370526
- Currently effective map date11/04/09
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.
Gaston County, not Bessemer City
Gaston County context, not Bessemer City figures
These are Gaston County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Bessemer City measurements.
- Establishments in Gaston County4,594
- Employment at those establishments, Gaston County72,268
- Covered employment, Gaston County79,486
- Average annual pay, Gaston County$54,211
- Average weekly wage, Gaston County$1,043
- Housing units permitted, Gaston County2,069
- Of those, single family, Gaston County1,923
- County product, 2024, Gaston County$11,264,313,000
- County product change over the prior year, Gaston County6.8 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Gaston County$62,249
Every figure in this section is published for Gaston County as a whole and is not a measurement of Bessemer City. 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
Bessemer City questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Bessemer City, North Carolina?
5,580, in 2,082 households. Bessemer City city covers 5.69 square miles of land, which is 981 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Bessemer City in?
Gaston 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 Bessemer City?
$60,300. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $206,100. Median gross rent is $1,053 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Bessemer City businesses?
3 7(a) approvals totalling $4.6 m, across 3 lenders, median approval $1,152,900. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Bessemer City, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Bessemer City borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Bessemer City. 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 Bessemer City in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Bessemer City appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 370526, 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 Bessemer City figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Gaston 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 Bessemer City.
Is zoning published for Bessemer City?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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