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Portland borough, Pennsylvania: commercial real estate data.
Portland borough is a Census borough of 546 people across 0.48 square miles of land, in Northampton County. Median household income is $52,679, 54.0 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $90,000.
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Portland
What Portland is
- Census place typeborough
- Land area0.48 sq mi
- Water area0.07 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,131 plus or minus 336
- County holding the largest share of its areaNorthampton 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.
Portland
How many people live in Portland
- Population546 plus or minus 162
- Median age46.4 plus or minus 17.1
- Population under 1896 plus or minus 48
- Share under 1817.6 percent plus or minus 7.2
- Population 65 and over75 plus or minus 43
- Share 65 and over13.7 percent plus or minus 6.6
- Households235 plus or minus 60
- Family households149 plus or minus 50
- Share of households that are families63.4 percent plus or minus 13.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Portland
Income and work in Portland
- Median household income$52,679 plus or minus $16,765
- Per capita income$30,981 plus or minus $7,888
- Civilian labor force277 plus or minus 103
- Employed266 plus or minus 100
- Unemployed11 plus or minus 14
- Unemployment rate4.0 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Adults 25 and over383 plus or minus 99
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher94.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher18.8 percent plus or minus 10.4
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree7.6 percent plus or minus 5.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Portland
Housing in Portland
- Housing units289 plus or minus 65
- Occupied units235 plus or minus 60
- Vacant units54 plus or minus 36
- Vacancy rate18.7 percent plus or minus 11.7
- Owner occupied127 plus or minus 47
- Renter occupied108 plus or minus 51
- Ownership rate54.0 percent plus or minus 14.5
- Median owner-occupied home value$266,900
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,217
- Annual rent as a share of median income27.7 percent plus or minus 9.4
- Single family units213 plus or minus 55
- Share single family73.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more76 plus or minus 40
- Share in buildings of two or more26.3 percent plus or minus 12.5
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1938
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Portland
How Portland gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute224 plus or minus 87
- Commuting under 15 minutes45 plus or minus 33
- Share commuting under 15 minutes20.1 percent plus or minus 12.6
- Commuting 30 minutes or more107 plus or minus 48
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more47.8 percent plus or minus 10.6
- Drove alone89.2 percent
- Carpooled1.3 percent plus or minus 1.6
- Public transport1.3 percent plus or minus 2.0
- Walked1.7 percent plus or minus 2.0
- Worked from home6.7 percent plus or minus 7.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Portland
SBA loans in Portland (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$90,000
- Average approval$90,000
- Median approval$90,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$90,000
- Largest approval$90,000
- Jobs supported10
- Jobs per approval10.0
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full0
- Charged off1
- Median term46 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
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.
Portland
Flood risk in Portland
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number420729
- Currently effective map date07/16/14
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.
Northampton County, not Portland
Northampton County context, not Portland figures
These are Northampton County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Portland measurements.
- Establishments in Northampton County6,529
- Employment at those establishments, Northampton County121,192
- Covered employment, Northampton County120,976
- Average annual pay, Northampton County$60,298
- Average weekly wage, Northampton County$1,160
- Housing units permitted, Northampton County546
- Of those, single family, Northampton County372
- County product, 2024, Northampton County$20,981,619,000
- County product change over the prior year, Northampton County3.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Northampton County$73,377
Every figure in this section is published for Northampton County as a whole and is not a measurement of Portland. 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
Portland questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Portland, Pennsylvania?
546, in 235 households. Portland borough covers 0.48 square miles of land, which is 1,131 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Portland in?
Northampton 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 Portland?
$52,679. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $266,900. Median gross rent is $1,217 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Portland businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $90,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $90,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Portland, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Portland borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Portland. 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 Portland in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Portland appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 420729, 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 Portland figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Northampton 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 Portland.
Is zoning published for Portland?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.