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Oriental town, North Carolina: commercial real estate data.
Oriental town is a Census town of 873 people across 1.43 square miles of land, in Pamlico County. Median household income is $57,880, 84.4 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $182,700.
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Oriental
What Oriental is
- Census place typetown
- Land area1.43 sq mi
- Water area0.22 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land610 plus or minus 127
- County holding the largest share of its areaPamlico 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.
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How many people live in Oriental
- Population873 plus or minus 181
- Median age69.6
- Population under 1817 plus or minus 20
- Share under 181.9 percent plus or minus 2.2
- Population 65 and over617 plus or minus 131
- Share 65 and over70.7 percent
- Households559 plus or minus 112
- Family households301 plus or minus 89
- Share of households that are families53.8 percent plus or minus 11.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Oriental
- Median household income$57,880
- Per capita income$48,805
- Civilian labor force195 plus or minus 64
- Employed193 plus or minus 64
- Unemployed2 plus or minus 4
- Unemployment rate1.0 percent plus or minus 2.0
- Adults 25 and over855 plus or minus 177
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher97.9 percent plus or minus 26.8
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher51.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree29.1 percent plus or minus 9.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Oriental
- Housing units776
- Occupied units559 plus or minus 112
- Vacant units217 plus or minus 79
- Vacancy rate28.0 percent plus or minus 9.0
- Owner occupied472 plus or minus 110
- Renter occupied87 plus or minus 39
- Ownership rate84.4 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$422,900
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,138
- Annual rent as a share of median income23.6 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Single family units609 plus or minus 134
- Share single family78.5 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more150 plus or minus 58
- Share in buildings of two or more19.3 percent plus or minus 6.7
- Mobile homes17 plus or minus 19
- Median year structure built1993
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Oriental gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute148 plus or minus 57
- Commuting under 15 minutes89 plus or minus 48
- Share commuting under 15 minutes60.1 percent plus or minus 22.5
- Commuting 30 minutes or more45 plus or minus 31
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more30.4 percent plus or minus 17.1
- Drove alone62.9 percent plus or minus 17.4
- Carpooled1.0 percent plus or minus 1.5
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked5.7 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Worked from home23.7 percent plus or minus 12.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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SBA 7(a) lending to Oriental borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$182,700
- Average approval$182,700
- Median approval$182,700
- Ninetieth percentile approval$182,700
- Largest approval$182,700
- Jobs supported2
- Jobs per approval2.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 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.
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Flood programme status in Oriental
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- Best Community Rating System classClass 8
- NFIP community number370279
- Currently effective map date06/19/20
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Pamlico County, not Oriental
Pamlico County context, not Oriental figures
These are Pamlico County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Oriental measurements.
- Establishments in Pamlico County261
- Employment at those establishments, Pamlico County2,542
- Covered employment, Pamlico County3,692
- Average annual pay, Pamlico County$37,034
- Average weekly wage, Pamlico County$712
- Housing units permitted, Pamlico County107
- Of those, single family, Pamlico County107
- County product, 2024, Pamlico County$377,958,000
- County product change over the prior year, Pamlico County-1.2 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Pamlico County$91,281
Every figure in this section is published for Pamlico County as a whole and is not a measurement of Oriental. 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
Oriental questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Oriental, North Carolina?
873, in 559 households. Oriental town covers 1.43 square miles of land, which is 610 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Oriental in?
Pamlico 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 Oriental?
$57,880. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $422,900. Median gross rent is $1,138 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Oriental businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $182,700, across 1 lenders, median approval $182,700. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Oriental, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Oriental borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Oriental. 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 Oriental in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Oriental appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 370279, carrying Community Rating System class 8, which is a premium discount for exceeding the programme minimum. 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 Oriental figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Pamlico 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 Oriental.
Is zoning published for Oriental?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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