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Bryson City town, North Carolina: commercial real estate data.
Bryson City town is a Census town of 1,902 people across 2.18 square miles of land, in Swain County. Median household income is $44,167, 42.8 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 10 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $7.0 m.
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Bryson City
What Bryson City is
- Census place typetown
- Land area2.18 sq mi
- Water area0.11 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land871 plus or minus 188
- County holding the largest share of its areaSwain 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.
Bryson City
How many people live in Bryson City
- Population1,902 plus or minus 410
- Median age35.0
- Population under 18405 plus or minus 149
- Share under 1821.3 percent plus or minus 6.3
- Population 65 and over388 plus or minus 114
- Share 65 and over20.4 percent plus or minus 4.1
- Households806 plus or minus 179
- Family households482 plus or minus 124
- Share of households that are families59.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bryson City
Income and work in Bryson City
- Median household income$44,167
- Per capita income$26,132
- Civilian labor force873 plus or minus 245
- Employed864 plus or minus 243
- Unemployed9 plus or minus 11
- Unemployment rate1.0 percent plus or minus 1.2
- Adults 25 and over1,331
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher80.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher25.5 percent plus or minus 8.4
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree7.9 percent plus or minus 4.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bryson City
Housing in Bryson City
- Housing units1,013
- Occupied units806 plus or minus 179
- Vacant units207 plus or minus 86
- Vacancy rate20.4 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Owner occupied345 plus or minus 112
- Renter occupied461 plus or minus 137
- Ownership rate42.8 percent plus or minus 10.1
- Median owner-occupied home value$243,400
- Median gross rent, monthly$783 plus or minus $212
- Annual rent as a share of median income21.3 percent plus or minus 6.8
- Single family units540 plus or minus 139
- Share single family53.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more333 plus or minus 102
- Share in buildings of two or more32.9 percent plus or minus 7.7
- Mobile homes129 plus or minus 73
- Median year structure built1977
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bryson City
How Bryson City gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute853 plus or minus 242
- Commuting under 15 minutes390 plus or minus 154
- Share commuting under 15 minutes45.7 percent plus or minus 12.5
- Commuting 30 minutes or more92 plus or minus 59
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more10.8 percent plus or minus 6.3
- Drove alone81.7 percent plus or minus 31.7
- Carpooled9.0 percent plus or minus 7.7
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home1.2 percent plus or minus 1.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bryson City
SBA 7(a) lending to Bryson City borrowers
- Approvals10
- Gross approval$6,988,900
- Average approval$698,890
- Median approval$350,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,957,000
- Largest approval$1,957,000
- Jobs supported73
- Jobs per approval7.3
- Loans with a final outcome3
- Paid in full3
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more50.0 percent
- Share to franchises20.0 percent
- Distinct lenders8
- Distinct industries by NAICS8
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 3 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.
Bryson City
Flood programme status in Bryson City
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number370228
- Currently effective map date04/19/10
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.
Swain County, not Bryson City
Swain County context, not Bryson City figures
These are Swain County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Bryson City measurements.
- Establishments in Swain County382
- Employment at those establishments, Swain County3,724
- Covered employment, Swain County11,309
- Average annual pay, Swain County$46,512
- Average weekly wage, Swain County$894
- Housing units permitted, Swain County77
- Of those, single family, Swain County73
- County product, 2024, Swain County$916,286,000
- County product change over the prior year, Swain County4.2 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Swain County$59,943
Every figure in this section is published for Swain County as a whole and is not a measurement of Bryson 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
Bryson City questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Bryson City, North Carolina?
1,902, in 806 households. Bryson City town covers 2.18 square miles of land, which is 871 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Bryson City in?
Swain 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 Bryson City?
$44,167. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $243,400. Median gross rent is $783 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Bryson City businesses?
10 7(a) approvals totalling $7.0 m, across 8 lenders, median approval $350,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Bryson City, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Bryson City borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Bryson City. only 3 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 Bryson City in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Bryson City appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 370228, 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 Bryson City figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Swain 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 Bryson City.
Is zoning published for Bryson City?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.