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Avondale borough, Pennsylvania: commercial real estate data.
Avondale borough is a Census borough of 1,084 people across 0.48 square miles of land, in Chester County. Median household income is $78,681, 61.7 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 9 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $11.4 m.
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Avondale
What Avondale is
- Census place typeborough
- Land area0.48 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land2,242 plus or minus 728
- County holding the largest share of its areaChester 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.
Avondale
How many people live in Avondale
- Population1,084 plus or minus 352
- Median age32.2
- Population under 18358 plus or minus 124
- Share under 1833.0 percent
- Population 65 and over113 plus or minus 50
- Share 65 and over10.4 percent plus or minus 3.1
- Households373 plus or minus 128
- Family households310 plus or minus 113
- Share of households that are families83.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Avondale
- Median household income$78,681 plus or minus $26,702
- Per capita income$36,238 plus or minus $8,285
- Civilian labor force559 plus or minus 183
- Employed542 plus or minus 179
- Unemployed17 plus or minus 20
- Unemployment rate3.0 percent plus or minus 3.4
- Adults 25 and over663 plus or minus 220
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher58.8 percent plus or minus 24.8
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher32.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree16.4 percent plus or minus 7.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Avondale
- Housing units425 plus or minus 133
- Occupied units373 plus or minus 128
- Vacant units52 plus or minus 41
- Vacancy rate12.2 percent plus or minus 8.9
- Owner occupied230 plus or minus 87
- Renter occupied143 plus or minus 84
- Ownership rate61.7 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$301,000
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,400
- Annual rent as a share of median income21.4 percent plus or minus 7.4
- Single family units300 plus or minus 102
- Share single family70.6 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more121 plus or minus 89
- Share in buildings of two or more28.5 percent plus or minus 18.9
- Mobile homes4 plus or minus 6
- Median year structure built1938
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Avondale gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute496 plus or minus 169
- Commuting under 15 minutes188 plus or minus 127
- Share commuting under 15 minutes37.9 percent plus or minus 22.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more205 plus or minus 96
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more41.3 percent plus or minus 13.4
- Drove alone78.0 percent plus or minus 19.4
- Carpooled4.4 percent plus or minus 3.2
- Public transport0.4 percent plus or minus 0.7
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home8.3 percent plus or minus 4.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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SBA loans in Avondale (7(a))
- Approvals9
- Gross approval$11,354,900
- Average approval$1,261,656
- Median approval$350,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$4,357,400
- Largest approval$4,357,400
- Jobs supported402
- Jobs per approval44.7
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more22.2 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders6
- Distinct industries by NAICS6
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.
Avondale
Flood risk in Avondale
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number421473
- Currently effective map date09/29/17
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.
Chester County, not Avondale
Chester County context, not Avondale figures
These are Chester County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Avondale measurements.
- Establishments in Chester County15,102
- Employment at those establishments, Chester County262,454
- Covered employment, Chester County251,284
- Average annual pay, Chester County$87,886
- Average weekly wage, Chester County$1,690
- Housing units permitted, Chester County1,529
- Of those, single family, Chester County1,187
- County product, 2024, Chester County$60,160,228,000
- County product change over the prior year, Chester County5.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Chester County$121,506
Every figure in this section is published for Chester County as a whole and is not a measurement of Avondale. 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
Avondale questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Avondale, Pennsylvania?
1,084, in 373 households. Avondale borough covers 0.48 square miles of land, which is 2,242 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Avondale in?
Chester 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 Avondale?
$78,681. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $301,000. Median gross rent is $1,400 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Avondale businesses?
9 7(a) approvals totalling $11.4 m, across 6 lenders, median approval $350,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Avondale, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Avondale borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Avondale. 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 Avondale in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Avondale appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 421473, 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 Avondale figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Chester 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 Avondale.
Is zoning published for Avondale?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.