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Catawissa borough, Pennsylvania: commercial real estate data.
Catawissa borough is a Census borough of 1,536 people across 0.51 square miles of land, in Columbia County. Median household income is $51,992, 57.0 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 6 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $906,100.
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Catawissa
What Catawissa is
- Census place typeborough
- Land area0.51 sq mi
- Water area0.02 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land2,992
- 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.
Catawissa
How many people live in Catawissa
- Population1,536
- Median age42.8
- Population under 18286 plus or minus 63
- Share under 1818.6 percent
- Population 65 and over387 plus or minus 87
- Share 65 and over25.2 percent
- Households723
- Family households378
- Share of households that are families52.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Catawissa
Income and work in Catawissa
- Median household income$51,992
- Per capita income$31,111
- Civilian labor force882
- Employed827
- Unemployed55 plus or minus 30
- Unemployment rate6.2 percent plus or minus 3.3
- Adults 25 and over1,140
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher95.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher25.5 percent plus or minus 5.9
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree9.3 percent plus or minus 4.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Catawissa
Housing in Catawissa
- Housing units801
- Occupied units723
- Vacant units78 plus or minus 43
- Vacancy rate9.7 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Owner occupied412
- Renter occupied311 plus or minus 78
- Ownership rate57.0 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$145,900
- Median gross rent, monthly$644 plus or minus $216
- Annual rent as a share of median income14.9 percent plus or minus 5.4
- Single family units510
- Share single family63.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more266 plus or minus 77
- Share in buildings of two or more33.2 percent plus or minus 8.9
- Mobile homes25 plus or minus 19
- Median year structure built1946
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Catawissa
How Catawissa gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute773
- Commuting under 15 minutes229 plus or minus 62
- Share commuting under 15 minutes29.6 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more201 plus or minus 58
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more26.0 percent plus or minus 5.9
- Drove alone79.6 percent
- Carpooled11.9 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked2.8 percent plus or minus 1.6
- Worked from home5.4 percent plus or minus 2.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Catawissa
SBA 7(a) lending to Catawissa borrowers
- Approvals6
- Gross approval$906,100
- Average approval$151,017
- Median approval$175,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$306,100
- Largest approval$306,100
- Jobs supported27
- Jobs per approval4.5
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders5
- Distinct industries by NAICS5
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.
Catawissa
Flood programme status in Catawissa
- Listed NFIP communities2
- Of those, participating2
- NFIP community number420341
- 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 Catawissa
Columbia County context, not Catawissa 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 Catawissa 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 Catawissa. 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
Catawissa questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Catawissa, Pennsylvania?
1,536, in 723 households. Catawissa borough covers 0.51 square miles of land, which is 2,992 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Catawissa 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 Catawissa?
$51,992. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $145,900. Median gross rent is $644 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Catawissa businesses?
6 7(a) approvals totalling $906,100, across 5 lenders, median approval $175,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Catawissa, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Catawissa borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Catawissa. 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 Catawissa in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Catawissa appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 420341, 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 Catawissa 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 Catawissa.
Is zoning published for Catawissa?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.