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Briar Creek borough, Pennsylvania: commercial real estate data.
Briar Creek borough is a Census borough of 828 people across 1.65 square miles of land, in Columbia County. Median household income is $42,647, 44.8 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Briar Creek
What Briar Creek is
- Census place typeborough
- Land area1.65 sq mi
- Water area0.19 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land501 plus or minus 235
- County holding the largest share of its areaColumbia 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.
Briar Creek
How many people live in Briar Creek
- Population828 plus or minus 388
- Median age38.0 plus or minus 13.0
- Population under 18235 plus or minus 115
- Share under 1828.4 percent
- Population 65 and over156 plus or minus 57
- Share 65 and over18.8 percent plus or minus 11.2
- Households286 plus or minus 75
- Family households148 plus or minus 58
- Share of households that are families51.7 percent plus or minus 15.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Briar Creek
- Median household income$42,647 plus or minus $20,916
- Per capita income$19,337 plus or minus $6,757
- Civilian labor force356 plus or minus 217
- Employed241 plus or minus 82
- Unemployed115 plus or minus 169
- Unemployment rate32.3 percent plus or minus 43.2
- Adults 25 and over501 plus or minus 158
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher86.8 percent plus or minus 37.6
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher15.0 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree6.2 percent plus or minus 7.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Briar Creek
- Housing units358 plus or minus 79
- Occupied units286 plus or minus 75
- Vacant units72 plus or minus 40
- Vacancy rate20.1 percent plus or minus 10.3
- Owner occupied128 plus or minus 38
- Renter occupied158 plus or minus 71
- Ownership rate44.8 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$160,400 plus or minus $59,562
- Median gross rent, monthly$680
- Annual rent as a share of median income19.1 percent plus or minus 9.4
- Single family units139 plus or minus 54
- Share single family38.8 percent plus or minus 12.5
- Units in buildings of two or more104 plus or minus 53
- Share in buildings of two or more29.1 percent plus or minus 13.4
- Mobile homes115 plus or minus 42
- Median year structure built1976
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Briar Creek gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute217 plus or minus 78
- Commuting under 15 minutes84 plus or minus 42
- Share commuting under 15 minutes38.7 percent plus or minus 13.6
- Commuting 30 minutes or more51 plus or minus 35
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more23.5 percent plus or minus 13.9
- Drove alone80.1 percent
- Carpooled1.7 percent plus or minus 2.4
- Public transport2.5 percent plus or minus 3.6
- Walked4.1 percent plus or minus 6.5
- Worked from home10.0 percent plus or minus 7.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Briar Creek
Flood risk in Briar Creek
- Listed NFIP communities2
- Of those, participating2
- NFIP community number420340
- Currently effective map date07/31/24
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.
Columbia County, not Briar Creek
Columbia County context, not Briar Creek figures
These are Columbia County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Briar Creek measurements.
- Establishments in Columbia County1,428
- Employment at those establishments, Columbia County22,886
- Covered employment, Columbia County24,395
- Average annual pay, Columbia County$50,569
- Average weekly wage, Columbia County$972
- Housing units permitted, Columbia County68
- Of those, single family, Columbia County68
- County product, 2024, Columbia County$3,276,472,000
- County product change over the prior year, Columbia County4.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Columbia County$54,586
Every figure in this section is published for Columbia County as a whole and is not a measurement of Briar Creek. 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.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- 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
Briar Creek questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Briar Creek, Pennsylvania?
828, in 286 households. Briar Creek borough covers 1.65 square miles of land, which is 501 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Briar Creek in?
Columbia 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 Briar Creek?
$42,647. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $160,400. Median gross rent is $680 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Is Briar Creek in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Briar Creek appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 420340, 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 Briar Creek figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Columbia 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 Briar Creek.
Is zoning published for Briar Creek?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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