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Cottageville town, South Carolina: commercial real estate data.
Cottageville town is a Census town of 1,196 people across 3.42 square miles of land, in Colleton County. Median household income is $80,938, 81.1 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $380,700.
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Cottageville
What Cottageville is
- Census place typetown
- Land area3.42 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land350 plus or minus 92
- County holding the largest share of its areaColleton 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.
Cottageville
How many people live in Cottageville
- Population1,196 plus or minus 314
- Median age37.7
- Population under 18389 plus or minus 142
- Share under 1832.5 percent plus or minus 8.3
- Population 65 and over186 plus or minus 59
- Share 65 and over15.6 percent
- Households407 plus or minus 92
- Family households333 plus or minus 83
- Share of households that are families81.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cottageville
Income and work in Cottageville
- Median household income$80,938 plus or minus $40,575
- Per capita income$31,089
- Civilian labor force540 plus or minus 165
- Employed525 plus or minus 157
- Unemployed15 plus or minus 23
- Unemployment rate2.8 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Adults 25 and over765 plus or minus 188
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher82.1 percent plus or minus 26.5
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher14.9 percent plus or minus 6.4
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree5.4 percent plus or minus 4.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cottageville
Housing in Cottageville
- Housing units418 plus or minus 93
- Occupied units407 plus or minus 92
- Vacant units11 plus or minus 14
- Vacancy rate2.6 percent plus or minus 3.3
- Owner occupied330 plus or minus 79
- Renter occupied77 plus or minus 44
- Ownership rate81.1 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$164,700 plus or minus $36,204
- Median gross rent, monthly$934
- Annual rent as a share of median income13.8 percent plus or minus 7.1
- Single family units163 plus or minus 64
- Share single family39.0 percent plus or minus 12.5
- Units in buildings of two or more16 plus or minus 26
- Share in buildings of two or more3.8 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Mobile homes229 plus or minus 76
- Median year structure built1991
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cottageville
How Cottageville gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute478 plus or minus 142
- Commuting under 15 minutes47 plus or minus 33
- Share commuting under 15 minutes9.8 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more370 plus or minus 133
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more77.4 percent plus or minus 15.7
- Drove alone76.6 percent
- Carpooled13.0 percent plus or minus 12.2
- Public transport0.8 percent plus or minus 1.7
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home9.0 percent plus or minus 6.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cottageville
SBA 7(a) lending to Cottageville borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$380,700
- Average approval$380,700
- Median approval$380,700
- Ninetieth percentile approval$380,700
- Largest approval$380,700
- Jobs supported2
- Jobs per approval2.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more100.0 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.
Colleton County, not Cottageville
Colleton County context, not Cottageville figures
These are Colleton County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Cottageville measurements.
- Establishments in Colleton County793
- Employment at those establishments, Colleton County7,333
- Covered employment, Colleton County10,285
- Average annual pay, Colleton County$48,150
- Average weekly wage, Colleton County$926
- Housing units permitted, Colleton County48
- Of those, single family, Colleton County42
- County product, 2024, Colleton County$1,497,142,000
- County product change over the prior year, Colleton County10.3 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Colleton County$61,014
Every figure in this section is published for Colleton County as a whole and is not a measurement of Cottageville. 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
Cottageville questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Cottageville, South Carolina?
1,196, in 407 households. Cottageville town covers 3.42 square miles of land, which is 350 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Cottageville in?
Colleton 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 Cottageville?
$80,938. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $164,700. Median gross rent is $934 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Cottageville businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $380,700, across 1 lenders, median approval $380,700. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Cottageville, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Cottageville borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Cottageville. 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 Cottageville figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Colleton 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 Cottageville.
Is zoning published for Cottageville?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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