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Hendersonville city, North Carolina: commercial real estate data.
Hendersonville city is a Census city of 15,408 people across 7.89 square miles of land, in Henderson County. Median household income is $53,449, 46.1 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 58 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $34.7 m.
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Hendersonville
What Hendersonville is
- Census place typecity
- Land area7.89 sq mi
- Water area0.04 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,953
- County holding the largest share of its areaHenderson 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.
Hendersonville
How many people live in Hendersonville
- Population15,408
- Median age53.2
- Population under 182,356
- Share under 1815.3 percent
- Population 65 and over5,156
- Share 65 and over33.5 percent
- Households8,143
- Family households3,845
- Share of households that are families47.2 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hendersonville
Income and work in Hendersonville
- Median household income$53,449
- Per capita income$40,007
- Civilian labor force6,982
- Employed6,759
- Unemployed223 plus or minus 114
- Unemployment rate3.2 percent plus or minus 1.6
- Adults 25 and over12,042
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher93.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher38.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree15.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hendersonville
Housing in Hendersonville
- Housing units8,884
- Occupied units8,143
- Vacant units741 plus or minus 255
- Vacancy rate8.3 percent plus or minus 2.8
- Owner occupied3,755
- Renter occupied4,388
- Ownership rate46.1 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$317,000
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,332
- Annual rent as a share of median income29.9 percent
- Single family units4,437
- Share single family49.9 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more4,121
- Share in buildings of two or more46.4 percent
- Mobile homes302 plus or minus 140
- Median year structure built1987
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hendersonville
How Hendersonville gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute6,069
- Commuting under 15 minutes2,555
- Share commuting under 15 minutes42.1 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more1,348 plus or minus 305
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more22.2 percent plus or minus 4.7
- Drove alone75.8 percent
- Carpooled11.7 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Public transport0.3 percent plus or minus 0.5
- Walked1.8 percent plus or minus 1.2
- Worked from home8.7 percent plus or minus 3.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hendersonville
SBA 7(a) lending to Hendersonville borrowers
- Approvals58
- Gross approval$34,703,300
- Average approval$598,333
- Median approval$256,500
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,750,000
- Largest approval$3,523,000
- Jobs supported646
- Jobs per approval11.1
- Loans with a final outcome18
- Paid in full18
- Charged off0
- Charge-off rate over resolved loans0.0 percent
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more10.3 percent
- Share to franchises15.5 percent
- Distinct lenders27
- Distinct industries by NAICS40
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Hendersonville
SBA 504 lending to Hendersonville borrowers
- Approvals11
- Gross approval$5,556,000
- Average approval$505,091
- Median approval$288,000
- Largest approval$1,789,000
- Jobs supported54
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs3
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Hendersonville
Flood programme status in Hendersonville
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number370128
- Currently effective map date01/06/10
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.
Henderson County, not Hendersonville
Henderson County context, not Hendersonville figures
These are Henderson County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Hendersonville measurements.
- Establishments in Henderson County3,085
- Employment at those establishments, Henderson County38,824
- Covered employment, Henderson County44,207
- Average annual pay, Henderson County$54,106
- Average weekly wage, Henderson County$1,041
- Housing units permitted, Henderson County1,610
- Of those, single family, Henderson County988
- County product, 2024, Henderson County$6,371,806,000
- County product change over the prior year, Henderson County6.5 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Henderson County$95,308
Every figure in this section is published for Henderson County as a whole and is not a measurement of Hendersonville. 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
Hendersonville questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Hendersonville, North Carolina?
15,408, in 8,143 households. Hendersonville city covers 7.89 square miles of land, which is 1,953 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Hendersonville in?
Henderson 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 Hendersonville?
$53,449. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $317,000. Median gross rent is $1,332 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Hendersonville businesses?
58 7(a) approvals totalling $34.7 m, across 27 lenders, median approval $256,500, plus 11 504 approvals worth $5.6 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Hendersonville, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Hendersonville borrowers get paid back?
Of the 18 loans that have reached a final outcome, 18 were paid in full and 0 charged off, a charge off rate of 0.0 percent. Loans still running are excluded because they have not yet succeeded or failed.
Is Hendersonville in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Hendersonville appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 370128, 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 Hendersonville figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Henderson 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 Hendersonville.
Is zoning published for Hendersonville?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.