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Cressona borough, Pennsylvania: commercial real estate data.
Cressona borough is a Census borough of 1,420 people across 1.00 square miles of land, in Schuylkill County. Median household income is $73,967, 75.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 2 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $710,500.
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Cressona
What Cressona is
- Census place typeborough
- Land area1 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,423
- County holding the largest share of its areaSchuylkill 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.
Cressona
How many people live in Cressona
- Population1,420
- Median age36.5
- Population under 18335 plus or minus 78
- Share under 1823.6 percent
- Population 65 and over322 plus or minus 65
- Share 65 and over22.7 percent
- Households587
- Family households396 plus or minus 80
- Share of households that are families67.5 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cressona
Income and work in Cressona
- Median household income$73,967
- Per capita income$32,452
- Civilian labor force735 plus or minus 159
- Employed701 plus or minus 153
- Unemployed34 plus or minus 18
- Unemployment rate4.6 percent plus or minus 2.2
- Adults 25 and over1,023
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher93.8 percent plus or minus 21.9
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher22.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree8.1 percent plus or minus 3.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Cressona
- Housing units611
- Occupied units587
- Vacant units24 plus or minus 24
- Vacancy rate3.9 percent plus or minus 3.9
- Owner occupied444
- Renter occupied143 plus or minus 47
- Ownership rate75.6 percent plus or minus 18.2
- Median owner-occupied home value$157,000
- Median gross rent, monthly$945
- Annual rent as a share of median income15.3 percent
- Single family units512
- Share single family83.8 percent plus or minus 19.7
- Units in buildings of two or more92 plus or minus 40
- Share in buildings of two or more15.1 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Mobile homes7 plus or minus 9
- Median year structure built1938
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cressona
How Cressona gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute664 plus or minus 148
- Commuting under 15 minutes188 plus or minus 53
- Share commuting under 15 minutes28.3 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more181 plus or minus 47
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more27.3 percent
- Drove alone71.7 percent
- Carpooled14.9 percent plus or minus 5.4
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked4.9 percent plus or minus 3.6
- Worked from home4.7 percent plus or minus 2.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cressona
SBA loans in Cressona (7(a))
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$710,500
- Average approval$355,250
- Median approval$625,500
- Ninetieth percentile approval$625,500
- Largest approval$625,500
- Jobs supported8
- Jobs per approval4.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more50.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders2
- Distinct industries by NAICS2
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.
Cressona
Flood risk in Cressona
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number420769
- Currently effective map date05/18/21
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.
Schuylkill County, not Cressona
Schuylkill County context, not Cressona figures
These are Schuylkill County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Cressona measurements.
- Establishments in Schuylkill County2,705
- Employment at those establishments, Schuylkill County41,596
- Covered employment, Schuylkill County50,294
- Average annual pay, Schuylkill County$54,134
- Average weekly wage, Schuylkill County$1,041
- Housing units permitted, Schuylkill County239
- Of those, single family, Schuylkill County167
- County product, 2024, Schuylkill County$6,491,898,000
- County product change over the prior year, Schuylkill County5.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Schuylkill County$54,473
Every figure in this section is published for Schuylkill County as a whole and is not a measurement of Cressona. 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
Cressona questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Cressona, Pennsylvania?
1,420, in 587 households. Cressona borough covers 1.00 square miles of land, which is 1,423 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Cressona in?
Schuylkill 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 Cressona?
$73,967. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $157,000. Median gross rent is $945 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Cressona businesses?
2 7(a) approvals totalling $710,500, across 2 lenders, median approval $625,500. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Cressona, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Cressona borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Cressona. 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 Cressona in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Cressona appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 420769, 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 Cressona figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Schuylkill 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 Cressona.
Is zoning published for Cressona?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.