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Shamokin Dam borough, Pennsylvania: commercial real estate data.
Shamokin Dam borough is a Census borough of 1,708 people across 1.84 square miles of land, in Snyder County. Median household income is $69,063, 67.0 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 2 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $2.3 m.
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Shamokin Dam
What Shamokin Dam is
- Census place typeborough
- Land area1.84 sq mi
- Water area0.04 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land926 plus or minus 189
- County holding the largest share of its areaSnyder 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.
Shamokin Dam
How many people live in Shamokin Dam
- Population1,708 plus or minus 349
- Median age46.3 plus or minus 12.1
- Population under 18335 plus or minus 92
- Share under 1819.6 percent
- Population 65 and over372
- Share 65 and over21.8 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Households722
- Family households476
- Share of households that are families65.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Shamokin Dam
Income and work in Shamokin Dam
- Median household income$69,063
- Per capita income$34,942
- Civilian labor force941 plus or minus 283
- Employed927 plus or minus 281
- Unemployed14 plus or minus 12
- Unemployment rate1.5 percent plus or minus 1.2
- Adults 25 and over1,302 plus or minus 273
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher92.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher21.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree7.3 percent plus or minus 2.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Shamokin Dam
- Housing units755
- Occupied units722
- Vacant units33 plus or minus 29
- Vacancy rate4.4 percent plus or minus 3.8
- Owner occupied484 plus or minus 97
- Renter occupied238 plus or minus 67
- Ownership rate67.0 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$197,200
- Median gross rent, monthly$926 plus or minus $188
- Annual rent as a share of median income16.1 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Single family units600
- Share single family79.5 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more152 plus or minus 49
- Share in buildings of two or more20.1 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Mobile homes3 plus or minus 6
- Median year structure built1966
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Shamokin Dam gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute860 plus or minus 270
- Commuting under 15 minutes416 plus or minus 147
- Share commuting under 15 minutes48.4 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more215 plus or minus 99
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more25.0 percent plus or minus 8.4
- Drove alone83.8 percent
- Carpooled9.0 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Public transport0.3 percent plus or minus 0.6
- Walked0.2 percent plus or minus 0.5
- Worked from home6.6 percent plus or minus 4.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Shamokin Dam
SBA 7(a) lending to Shamokin Dam borrowers
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$2,305,000
- Average approval$1,152,500
- Median approval$2,295,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$2,295,000
- Largest approval$2,295,000
- Jobs supported28
- Jobs per approval14.0
- 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.
Shamokin Dam
Flood programme status in Shamokin Dam
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number420809
- Currently effective map date08/24/21
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.
Snyder County, not Shamokin Dam
Snyder County context, not Shamokin Dam figures
These are Snyder County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Shamokin Dam measurements.
- Establishments in Snyder County900
- Employment at those establishments, Snyder County14,861
- Covered employment, Snyder County15,516
- Average annual pay, Snyder County$46,001
- Average weekly wage, Snyder County$885
- Housing units permitted, Snyder County48
- Of those, single family, Snyder County48
- County product, 2024, Snyder County$2,202,182,000
- County product change over the prior year, Snyder County2.5 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Snyder County$54,818
Every figure in this section is published for Snyder County as a whole and is not a measurement of Shamokin Dam. 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
Shamokin Dam questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Shamokin Dam, Pennsylvania?
1,708, in 722 households. Shamokin Dam borough covers 1.84 square miles of land, which is 926 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Shamokin Dam in?
Snyder 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 Shamokin Dam?
$69,063. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $197,200. Median gross rent is $926 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Shamokin Dam businesses?
2 7(a) approvals totalling $2.3 m, across 2 lenders, median approval $2,295,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Shamokin Dam, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Shamokin Dam borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Shamokin Dam. 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 Shamokin Dam in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Shamokin Dam appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 420809, 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 Shamokin Dam figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Snyder 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 Shamokin Dam.
Is zoning published for Shamokin Dam?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.