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Bostic town, North Carolina: commercial real estate data.
Bostic town is a Census town of 433 people across 0.93 square miles of land, in Rutherford County. Median household income is $57,813, 68.1 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 3 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.3 m.
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Bostic
What Bostic is
- Census place typetown
- Land area0.93 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land464 plus or minus 165
- County holding the largest share of its areaRutherford 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.
Bostic
How many people live in Bostic
- Population433 plus or minus 154
- Median age38.7 plus or minus 8.5
- Population under 18122 plus or minus 59
- Share under 1828.2 percent plus or minus 9.2
- Population 65 and over89 plus or minus 37
- Share 65 and over20.6 percent plus or minus 4.5
- Households160 plus or minus 56
- Family households110 plus or minus 43
- Share of households that are families68.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bostic
Income and work in Bostic
- Median household income$57,813 plus or minus $33,557
- Per capita income$27,898
- Civilian labor force201 plus or minus 77
- Employed194 plus or minus 76
- Unemployed7 plus or minus 8
- Unemployment rate3.5 percent plus or minus 3.7
- Adults 25 and over287 plus or minus 94
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher83.3 percent plus or minus 34.9
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher18.8 percent plus or minus 8.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.9 percent plus or minus 6.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bostic
Housing in Bostic
- Housing units187 plus or minus 62
- Occupied units160 plus or minus 56
- Vacant units27 plus or minus 20
- Vacancy rate14.4 percent plus or minus 9.6
- Owner occupied109 plus or minus 42
- Renter occupied51 plus or minus 31
- Ownership rate68.1 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$171,900 plus or minus $69,745
- Median gross rent, monthly$855
- Annual rent as a share of median income17.7 percent plus or minus 10.7
- Single family units141 plus or minus 50
- Share single family75.4 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more7 plus or minus 15
- Share in buildings of two or more3.7 percent plus or minus 8.1
- Mobile homes39 plus or minus 30
- Median year structure built1975
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bostic
How Bostic gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute188 plus or minus 75
- Commuting under 15 minutes46 plus or minus 26
- Share commuting under 15 minutes24.5 percent plus or minus 9.9
- Commuting 30 minutes or more55 plus or minus 29
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more29.3 percent plus or minus 9.7
- Drove alone84.0 percent
- Carpooled12.9 percent plus or minus 10.7
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home3.1 percent plus or minus 6.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bostic
SBA loans in Bostic (7(a))
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$1,338,500
- Average approval$446,167
- Median approval$303,500
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,020,000
- Largest approval$1,020,000
- Jobs supported8
- Jobs per approval2.7
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full0
- Charged off1
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more33.3 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders3
- Distinct industries by NAICS3
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 1 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.
Bostic
Flood risk in Bostic
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number370354
- 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.
Rutherford County, not Bostic
Rutherford County context, not Bostic figures
These are Rutherford County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Bostic measurements.
- Establishments in Rutherford County1,289
- Employment at those establishments, Rutherford County16,815
- Covered employment, Rutherford County17,994
- Average annual pay, Rutherford County$48,125
- Average weekly wage, Rutherford County$925
- Housing units permitted, Rutherford County193
- Of those, single family, Rutherford County191
- County product, 2024, Rutherford County$2,490,130,000
- County product change over the prior year, Rutherford County3.8 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Rutherford County$65,446
Every figure in this section is published for Rutherford County as a whole and is not a measurement of Bostic. 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
Bostic questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Bostic, North Carolina?
433, in 160 households. Bostic town covers 0.93 square miles of land, which is 464 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Bostic in?
Rutherford 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 Bostic?
$57,813. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $171,900. Median gross rent is $855 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Bostic businesses?
3 7(a) approvals totalling $1.3 m, across 3 lenders, median approval $303,500. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Bostic, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Bostic borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Bostic. only 1 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 Bostic in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Bostic appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 370354, 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 Bostic figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Rutherford 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 Bostic.
Is zoning published for Bostic?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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