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Fostoria city, Ohio: commercial real estate data.
Fostoria city is a Census city of 12,344 people across 7.57 square miles of land, lying across Seneca County and Hancock County and Wood County. Median household income is $54,151, 66.4 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 20 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $5.9 m.
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Fostoria
What Fostoria is
- Census place typecity
- Land area7.57 sq mi
- Water area0.22 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,630
- County holding the largest share of its areaSeneca County, 66.5 percent
- Counties this place lies inSeneca County 66.5 percent, Hancock County 23.3 percent, Wood County 10.2 percent
Fostoria city crosses a county line. The split above is measured from the Census boundary of the place against the county boundaries, by area, so it says where the ground is and not where the town hall is.
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fostoria
How many people live in Fostoria
- Population12,344
- Median age39.1
- Population under 182,896
- Share under 1823.5 percent
- Population 65 and over2,217
- Share 65 and over18.0 percent
- Households5,097
- Family households3,087
- Share of households that are families60.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fostoria
Income and work in Fostoria
- Median household income$54,151
- Per capita income$27,346
- Civilian labor force6,178
- Employed5,798
- Unemployed380 plus or minus 129
- Unemployment rate6.2 percent plus or minus 2.0
- Adults 25 and over8,184
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher89.9 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher9.9 percent plus or minus 2.2
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.2 percent plus or minus 1.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fostoria
Housing in Fostoria
- Housing units5,793
- Occupied units5,097
- Vacant units696 plus or minus 214
- Vacancy rate12.0 percent plus or minus 3.6
- Owner occupied3,385
- Renter occupied1,712
- Ownership rate66.4 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$87,200
- Median gross rent, monthly$809
- Annual rent as a share of median income17.9 percent
- Single family units4,400
- Share single family76.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more988 plus or minus 229
- Share in buildings of two or more17.1 percent plus or minus 3.8
- Mobile homes405 plus or minus 135
- Median year structure built1952
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fostoria
How Fostoria gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute5,569
- Commuting under 15 minutes2,108
- Share commuting under 15 minutes37.9 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more1,728
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more31.0 percent
- Drove alone79.4 percent
- Carpooled13.1 percent plus or minus 4.0
- Public transport0.4 percent plus or minus 0.5
- Walked3.5 percent plus or minus 1.8
- Worked from home2.5 percent plus or minus 1.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fostoria
SBA loans in Fostoria (7(a))
- Approvals20
- Gross approval$5,873,100
- Average approval$293,655
- Median approval$86,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,616,500
- Largest approval$2,135,400
- Jobs supported153
- Jobs per approval7.7
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more15.0 percent
- Share to franchises5.0 percent
- Distinct lenders7
- Distinct industries by NAICS11
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.
Fostoria
Flood risk in Fostoria
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number390245
- Currently effective map date06/02/11
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.
Seneca County, not Fostoria
Seneca County context, not Fostoria figures
These are Seneca County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Fostoria measurements.
- Establishments in Seneca County1,053
- Employment at those establishments, Seneca County16,258
- Covered employment, Seneca County19,092
- Average annual pay, Seneca County$49,201
- Average weekly wage, Seneca County$946
- Housing units permitted, Seneca County43
- Of those, single family, Seneca County39
- County product, 2024, Seneca County$2,753,349,000
- County product change over the prior year, Seneca County1.5 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Seneca County$47,698
Every figure in this section is published for Seneca County as a whole and is not a measurement of Fostoria. 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
Fostoria questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Fostoria, Ohio?
12,344, in 5,097 households. Fostoria city covers 7.57 square miles of land, which is 1,630 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Fostoria in?
Fostoria lies in more than one. By area it is 66.5 percent in Seneca County, 23.3 percent in Hancock County, 10.2 percent in Wood County. This page sits under Seneca County because that county holds the largest share. The split is measured from the Census boundary of the place against the county boundaries.
What is the median household income in Fostoria?
$54,151. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $87,200. Median gross rent is $809 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Fostoria businesses?
20 7(a) approvals totalling $5.9 m, across 7 lenders, median approval $86,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Fostoria, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Fostoria borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Fostoria. 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 Fostoria in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Fostoria appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 390245, 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 Fostoria figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Seneca 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 Fostoria.
Is zoning published for Fostoria?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.