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Newtown borough, Pennsylvania: commercial real estate data.
Newtown borough is a Census borough of 2,224 people across 0.55 square miles of land, in Bucks County. Median household income is $166,429, 73.2 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 40 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $31.9 m.
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Newtown
What Newtown is
- Census place typeborough
- Land area0.55 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land4,018
- County holding the largest share of its areaBucks 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.
Newtown
How many people live in Newtown
- Population2,224
- Median age48.3
- Population under 18368 plus or minus 108
- Share under 1816.5 percent plus or minus 4.4
- Population 65 and over517
- Share 65 and over23.2 percent
- Households980
- Family households653
- Share of households that are families66.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Newtown
Income and work in Newtown
- Median household income$166,429
- Per capita income$108,576
- Civilian labor force1,242
- Employed1,213
- Unemployed29 plus or minus 20
- Unemployment rate2.3 percent plus or minus 1.6
- Adults 25 and over1,718
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher99.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher74.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree35.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Newtown
Housing in Newtown
- Housing units986
- Occupied units980
- Vacant units6 plus or minus 8
- Vacancy rate0.6 percent plus or minus 0.8
- Owner occupied717
- Renter occupied263 plus or minus 74
- Ownership rate73.2 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$783,400
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,887
- Annual rent as a share of median income13.6 percent
- Single family units803
- Share single family81.4 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more183 plus or minus 64
- Share in buildings of two or more18.6 percent plus or minus 6.3
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1938
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Newtown
How Newtown gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute937
- Commuting under 15 minutes277 plus or minus 73
- Share commuting under 15 minutes29.6 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more424 plus or minus 119
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more45.3 percent plus or minus 10.4
- Drove alone73.4 percent
- Carpooled0.0 percent
- Public transport1.3 percent plus or minus 1.2
- Walked3.0 percent plus or minus 2.6
- Worked from home22.3 percent plus or minus 5.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Newtown
SBA 7(a) lending to Newtown borrowers
- Approvals40
- Gross approval$31,890,300
- Average approval$797,258
- Median approval$350,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$2,325,000
- Largest approval$5,000,000
- Jobs supported474
- Jobs per approval11.8
- Loans with a final outcome8
- Paid in full8
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more22.5 percent
- Share to franchises7.5 percent
- Distinct lenders19
- Distinct industries by NAICS29
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 8 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.
Newtown
SBA 504 lending to Newtown borrowers
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$1,385,000
- Average approval$461,667
- Median approval$469,000
- Largest approval$681,000
- Jobs supported4
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Distinct CDCs3
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Newtown
Flood programme status in Newtown
- Listed NFIP communities3
- Of those, participating3
- NFIP community number420991
- Currently effective map date11/18/09
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.
Bucks County, not Newtown
Bucks County context, not Newtown figures
These are Bucks County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Newtown measurements.
- Establishments in Bucks County20,043
- Employment at those establishments, Bucks County263,278
- Covered employment, Bucks County274,632
- Average annual pay, Bucks County$64,953
- Average weekly wage, Bucks County$1,249
- Housing units permitted, Bucks County718
- Of those, single family, Bucks County511
- County product, 2024, Bucks County$48,826,773,000
- County product change over the prior year, Bucks County5.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Bucks County$119,540
Every figure in this section is published for Bucks County as a whole and is not a measurement of Newtown. 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
Newtown questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Newtown, Pennsylvania?
2,224, in 980 households. Newtown borough covers 0.55 square miles of land, which is 4,018 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Newtown in?
Bucks 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 Newtown?
$166,429. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $783,400. Median gross rent is $1,887 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Newtown businesses?
40 7(a) approvals totalling $31.9 m, across 19 lenders, median approval $350,000, plus 3 504 approvals worth $1.4 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Newtown, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Newtown borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Newtown. only 8 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 Newtown in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Newtown appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 420991, 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 Newtown figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Bucks 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 Newtown.
Is zoning published for Newtown?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.