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Olar town, South Carolina: commercial real estate data.
Olar town is a Census town of 139 people across 0.79 square miles of land, in Bamberg County. Median household income is $27,500, 81.3 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $150,000.
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This is a small place, and the figures below carry wide margins.
The American Community Survey reaches Olar through a sample, not a count, and in a place this size that sample is thin. The population estimate here is 139 with a margin of error of plus or minus 75, which is 54.0 percent of the estimate itself. Every figure whose margin reaches 20 percent is printed with that margin beside it, so you can see the width of each one rather than having to assume it.
Nothing has been removed or adjusted. These are the published federal estimates, shown with the uncertainty the Census publishes alongside them.
Olar
What Olar is
- Census place typetown
- Land area0.79 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land177 plus or minus 96
- County holding the largest share of its areaBamberg 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.
Olar
How many people live in Olar
- Population139 plus or minus 75
- Median age40.2 plus or minus 26.0
- Population under 1844 plus or minus 31
- Share under 1831.7 percent plus or minus 14.7
- Population 65 and over39 plus or minus 27
- Share 65 and over28.1 percent plus or minus 12.1
- Households64 plus or minus 27
- Family households37 plus or minus 23
- Share of households that are families57.8 percent plus or minus 26.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Olar
Income and work in Olar
- Median household income$27,500 plus or minus $20,891
- Per capita income$21,651 plus or minus $7,116
- Civilian labor force41 plus or minus 30
- Employed37 plus or minus 27
- Unemployed4 plus or minus 6
- Unemployment rate9.8 percent plus or minus 12.8
- Adults 25 and over94 plus or minus 45
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher74.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher18.1 percent plus or minus 19.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree11.7 percent plus or minus 18.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Olar
Housing in Olar
- Housing units124 plus or minus 38
- Occupied units64 plus or minus 27
- Vacant units60 plus or minus 31
- Vacancy rate48.4 percent plus or minus 20.1
- Owner occupied52 plus or minus 26
- Renter occupied12 plus or minus 13
- Ownership rate81.3 percent plus or minus 21.8
- Median owner-occupied home value$90,000 plus or minus $39,216
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,188 plus or minus $761
- Annual rent as a share of median income51.8 percent plus or minus 51.5
- Single family units99 plus or minus 35
- Share single family79.8 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes25 plus or minus 16
- Median year structure built1969
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Olar
How Olar gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute37 plus or minus 27
- Commuting under 15 minutes5 plus or minus 17
- Share commuting under 15 minutes13.5 percent plus or minus 44.6
- Commuting 30 minutes or more20 plus or minus 20
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more54.1 percent plus or minus 37.9
- Drove alone97.3 percent plus or minus 99.9
- Carpooled0.0 percent
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Olar
SBA 7(a) lending to Olar borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$150,000
- Average approval$150,000
- Median approval$150,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$150,000
- Largest approval$150,000
- Jobs supported0
- Jobs per approval0.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 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.
Bamberg County, not Olar
Bamberg County context, not Olar figures
These are Bamberg County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Olar measurements.
- Establishments in Bamberg County248
- Employment at those establishments, Bamberg County2,387
- Covered employment, Bamberg County3,556
- Average annual pay, Bamberg County$46,983
- Average weekly wage, Bamberg County$904
- Housing units permitted, Bamberg County11
- Of those, single family, Bamberg County11
- County product, 2024, Bamberg County$510,406,000
- County product change over the prior year, Bamberg County10.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Bamberg County$37,244
Every figure in this section is published for Bamberg County as a whole and is not a measurement of Olar. 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
Olar questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Olar, South Carolina?
139, in 64 households. Olar town covers 0.79 square miles of land, which is 177 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Olar in?
Bamberg 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 Olar?
$27,500. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $90,000. Median gross rent is $1,188 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Olar businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $150,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $150,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Olar, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Olar borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Olar. 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.
Are the county figures on this page Olar figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Bamberg 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 Olar.
Is zoning published for Olar?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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