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Shickshinny borough, Pennsylvania: commercial real estate data.
Shickshinny borough is a Census borough of 638 people across 0.48 square miles of land, in Luzerne County. Median household income is $42,500, 58.3 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 3 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $343,000.
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Shickshinny
What Shickshinny is
- Census place typeborough
- Land area0.48 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,339 plus or minus 338
- County holding the largest share of its areaLuzerne 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.
Shickshinny
How many people live in Shickshinny
- Population638 plus or minus 161
- Median age46.2 plus or minus 10.2
- Population under 18119 plus or minus 52
- Share under 1818.7 percent plus or minus 6.7
- Population 65 and over169 plus or minus 38
- Share 65 and over26.5 percent plus or minus 9.0
- Households288
- Family households166 plus or minus 40
- Share of households that are families57.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Shickshinny
Income and work in Shickshinny
- Median household income$42,500
- Per capita income$25,505
- Civilian labor force331 plus or minus 101
- Employed315 plus or minus 98
- Unemployed16 plus or minus 15
- Unemployment rate4.8 percent plus or minus 4.3
- Adults 25 and over439
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher90.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher12.1 percent plus or minus 5.6
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.2 percent plus or minus 3.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Shickshinny
Housing in Shickshinny
- Housing units334
- Occupied units288
- Vacant units46 plus or minus 26
- Vacancy rate13.8 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Owner occupied168 plus or minus 40
- Renter occupied120 plus or minus 36
- Ownership rate58.3 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$84,800
- Median gross rent, monthly$817 plus or minus $212
- Annual rent as a share of median income23.1 percent plus or minus 6.9
- Single family units258
- Share single family77.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more73 plus or minus 31
- Share in buildings of two or more21.9 percent plus or minus 8.6
- Mobile homes3 plus or minus 5
- Median year structure built1948
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Shickshinny
How Shickshinny gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute290 plus or minus 98
- Commuting under 15 minutes78 plus or minus 78
- Share commuting under 15 minutes26.9 percent plus or minus 25.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more159 plus or minus 49
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more54.8 percent plus or minus 25.2
- Drove alone72.1 percent plus or minus 18.2
- Carpooled16.2 percent plus or minus 6.9
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked1.3 percent plus or minus 1.9
- Worked from home7.9 percent plus or minus 6.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Shickshinny
SBA loans in Shickshinny (7(a))
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$343,000
- Average approval$114,333
- Median approval$133,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$150,000
- Largest approval$150,000
- Jobs supported12
- Jobs per approval4.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders2
- Distinct industries by NAICS3
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 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.
Shickshinny
Flood risk in Shickshinny
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number420626
- Currently effective map date06/20/24
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.
Luzerne County, not Shickshinny
Luzerne County context, not Shickshinny figures
These are Luzerne County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Shickshinny measurements.
- Establishments in Luzerne County7,212
- Employment at those establishments, Luzerne County139,382
- Covered employment, Luzerne County145,190
- Average annual pay, Luzerne County$55,901
- Average weekly wage, Luzerne County$1,075
- Housing units permitted, Luzerne County325
- Of those, single family, Luzerne County293
- County product, 2024, Luzerne County$20,580,464,000
- County product change over the prior year, Luzerne County4.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Luzerne County$50,713
Every figure in this section is published for Luzerne County as a whole and is not a measurement of Shickshinny. 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
Shickshinny questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Shickshinny, Pennsylvania?
638, in 288 households. Shickshinny borough covers 0.48 square miles of land, which is 1,339 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Shickshinny in?
Luzerne 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 Shickshinny?
$42,500. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $84,800. Median gross rent is $817 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Shickshinny businesses?
3 7(a) approvals totalling $343,000, across 2 lenders, median approval $133,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Shickshinny, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Shickshinny borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Shickshinny. only 0 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 Shickshinny in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Shickshinny appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 420626, 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 Shickshinny figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Luzerne 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 Shickshinny.
Is zoning published for Shickshinny?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.