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Beech Island CDP, South Carolina: commercial real estate data.
Beech Island CDP is a Census CDP of 1,578 people across 4.92 square miles of land, in Aiken County. Median household income is $36,027, 75.8 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 4 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $2.7 m.
66 sourced place values · tier FULL · 7 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
Beech Island
What Beech Island is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area4.92 sq mi
- Water area0.1 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land321 plus or minus 119
- County holding the largest share of its areaAiken 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.
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How many people live in Beech Island
- Population1,578 plus or minus 586
- Median age37.5 plus or minus 9.5
- Population under 18405 plus or minus 163
- Share under 1825.7 percent
- Population 65 and over358 plus or minus 136
- Share 65 and over22.7 percent
- Households645 plus or minus 177
- Family households360 plus or minus 153
- Share of households that are families55.8 percent plus or minus 18.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Beech Island
- Median household income$36,027 plus or minus $18,724
- Per capita income$21,390 plus or minus $6,584
- Civilian labor force675 plus or minus 265
- Employed569 plus or minus 192
- Unemployed106 plus or minus 100
- Unemployment rate15.7 percent plus or minus 13.5
- Adults 25 and over1,024 plus or minus 296
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher86.7 percent plus or minus 33.5
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher14.4 percent plus or minus 6.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.8 percent plus or minus 3.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Beech Island
- Housing units762 plus or minus 190
- Occupied units645 plus or minus 177
- Vacant units117 plus or minus 88
- Vacancy rate15.4 percent plus or minus 10.9
- Owner occupied489 plus or minus 136
- Renter occupied156 plus or minus 89
- Ownership rate75.8 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$116,800 plus or minus $25,335
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,207
- Annual rent as a share of median income40.2 percent plus or minus 21.7
- Single family units573 plus or minus 184
- Share single family75.2 percent plus or minus 15.1
- Units in buildings of two or more40 plus or minus 50
- Share in buildings of two or more5.2 percent plus or minus 6.4
- Mobile homes103 plus or minus 83
- Median year structure built1972
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Beech Island gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute562 plus or minus 190
- Commuting under 15 minutes86 plus or minus 64
- Share commuting under 15 minutes15.3 percent plus or minus 10.1
- Commuting 30 minutes or more251 plus or minus 124
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more44.7 percent plus or minus 16.2
- Drove alone87.7 percent
- Carpooled4.4 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked6.7 percent plus or minus 10.1
- Worked from home1.2 percent plus or minus 2.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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SBA loans in Beech Island (7(a))
- Approvals4
- Gross approval$2,701,000
- Average approval$675,250
- Median approval$814,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,170,000
- Largest approval$1,170,000
- Jobs supported43
- Jobs per approval10.8
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more50.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders4
- Distinct industries by NAICS4
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.
Aiken County, not Beech Island
Aiken County context, not Beech Island figures
These are Aiken County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Beech Island measurements.
- Establishments in Aiken County3,067
- Employment at those establishments, Aiken County54,369
- Covered employment, Aiken County65,165
- Average annual pay, Aiken County$63,331
- Average weekly wage, Aiken County$1,218
- Housing units permitted, Aiken County2,500
- Of those, single family, Aiken County1,471
- County product, 2024, Aiken County$10,364,699,000
- County product change over the prior year, Aiken County5.8 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Aiken County$79,363
Every figure in this section is published for Aiken County as a whole and is not a measurement of Beech Island. 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.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- 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
Beech Island questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Beech Island, South Carolina?
1,578, in 645 households. Beech Island CDP covers 4.92 square miles of land, which is 321 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Beech Island in?
Aiken 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 Beech Island?
$36,027. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $116,800. Median gross rent is $1,207 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Beech Island businesses?
4 7(a) approvals totalling $2.7 m, across 4 lenders, median approval $814,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Beech Island, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Beech Island borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Beech Island. 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.
Are the county figures on this page Beech Island figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Aiken 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 Beech Island.
Is zoning published for Beech Island?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.