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Boswell borough, Pennsylvania: commercial real estate data.
Boswell borough is a Census borough of 1,153 people across 0.74 square miles of land, in Somerset County. Median household income is $52,500, 73.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 3 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $2.5 m.
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Boswell
What Boswell is
- Census place typeborough
- Land area0.74 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,560
- County holding the largest share of its areaSomerset 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.
Boswell
How many people live in Boswell
- Population1,153
- Median age44.0 plus or minus 10.2
- Population under 18243 plus or minus 76
- Share under 1821.1 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Population 65 and over210 plus or minus 61
- Share 65 and over18.2 percent plus or minus 3.9
- Households538
- Family households306 plus or minus 63
- Share of households that are families56.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Boswell
Income and work in Boswell
- Median household income$52,500 plus or minus $16,650
- Per capita income$31,650
- Civilian labor force564 plus or minus 129
- Employed554 plus or minus 129
- Unemployed10 plus or minus 10
- Unemployment rate1.8 percent plus or minus 1.7
- Adults 25 and over816
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher95.5 percent plus or minus 24.0
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher12.1 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.3 percent plus or minus 3.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Boswell
Housing in Boswell
- Housing units638
- Occupied units538
- Vacant units100 plus or minus 50
- Vacancy rate15.7 percent plus or minus 7.4
- Owner occupied396
- Renter occupied142 plus or minus 46
- Ownership rate73.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$82,800
- Median gross rent, monthly$550 plus or minus $198
- Annual rent as a share of median income12.6 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Single family units431 plus or minus 91
- Share single family67.6 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more116 plus or minus 44
- Share in buildings of two or more18.2 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Mobile homes91 plus or minus 38
- Median year structure built1955
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Boswell
How Boswell gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute515 plus or minus 126
- Commuting under 15 minutes148 plus or minus 46
- Share commuting under 15 minutes28.7 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more148 plus or minus 62
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more28.7 percent plus or minus 9.8
- Drove alone76.9 percent
- Carpooled15.1 percent plus or minus 13.6
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.7 percent plus or minus 1.1
- Worked from home7.2 percent plus or minus 3.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Boswell
SBA loans in Boswell (7(a))
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$2,466,000
- Average approval$822,000
- Median approval$500,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,466,000
- Largest approval$1,466,000
- Jobs supported111
- Jobs per approval37.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term36 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 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.
Boswell
Flood risk in Boswell
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number420794
- Currently effective map date09/19/12(M)
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.
Somerset County, not Boswell
Somerset County context, not Boswell figures
These are Somerset County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Boswell measurements.
- Establishments in Somerset County1,647
- Employment at those establishments, Somerset County18,678
- Covered employment, Somerset County23,303
- Average annual pay, Somerset County$50,925
- Average weekly wage, Somerset County$979
- Housing units permitted, Somerset County72
- Of those, single family, Somerset County72
- County product, 2024, Somerset County$3,037,840,000
- County product change over the prior year, Somerset County2.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Somerset County$62,846
Every figure in this section is published for Somerset County as a whole and is not a measurement of Boswell. 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
Boswell questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Boswell, Pennsylvania?
1,153, in 538 households. Boswell borough covers 0.74 square miles of land, which is 1,560 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Boswell in?
Somerset 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 Boswell?
$52,500. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $82,800. Median gross rent is $550 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Boswell businesses?
3 7(a) approvals totalling $2.5 m, across 1 lenders, median approval $500,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Boswell, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Boswell borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Boswell. 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 Boswell in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Boswell appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 420794, 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 Boswell figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Somerset 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 Boswell.
Is zoning published for Boswell?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.