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Coward town, South Carolina: commercial real estate data.
Coward town is a Census town of 853 people across 3.22 square miles of land, in Florence County. Median household income is $35,375, 63.7 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $40,000.
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Coward
What Coward is
- Census place typetown
- Land area3.22 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land265 plus or minus 81
- County holding the largest share of its areaFlorence 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.
Coward
How many people live in Coward
- Population853 plus or minus 260
- Median age38.5 plus or minus 12.4
- Population under 18204 plus or minus 89
- Share under 1823.9 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Population 65 and over149 plus or minus 61
- Share 65 and over17.5 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Households333 plus or minus 97
- Family households219 plus or minus 87
- Share of households that are families65.8 percent plus or minus 17.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Coward
Income and work in Coward
- Median household income$35,375 plus or minus $15,396
- Per capita income$19,632 plus or minus $4,942
- Civilian labor force338 plus or minus 138
- Employed309 plus or minus 129
- Unemployed29 plus or minus 29
- Unemployment rate8.6 percent plus or minus 7.8
- Adults 25 and over561 plus or minus 173
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher64.9 percent plus or minus 27.8
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher15.0 percent plus or minus 7.7
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree2.9 percent plus or minus 3.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Coward
Housing in Coward
- Housing units376 plus or minus 105
- Occupied units333 plus or minus 97
- Vacant units43 plus or minus 32
- Vacancy rate11.4 percent plus or minus 7.9
- Owner occupied212 plus or minus 69
- Renter occupied121 plus or minus 80
- Ownership rate63.7 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$154,700 plus or minus $65,505
- Median gross rent, monthly$883
- Annual rent as a share of median income30.0 percent plus or minus 13.6
- Single family units246 plus or minus 81
- Share single family65.4 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more12 plus or minus 20
- Share in buildings of two or more3.2 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Mobile homes118 plus or minus 50
- Median year structure built1991
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Coward
How Coward gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute285 plus or minus 126
- Commuting under 15 minutes65 plus or minus 49
- Share commuting under 15 minutes22.8 percent plus or minus 13.8
- Commuting 30 minutes or more117 plus or minus 78
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more41.1 percent plus or minus 20.7
- Drove alone78.0 percent plus or minus 28.6
- Carpooled13.3 percent plus or minus 10.2
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked1.0 percent plus or minus 1.2
- Worked from home7.8 percent plus or minus 8.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Coward
SBA loans in Coward (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$40,000
- Average approval$40,000
- Median approval$40,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$40,000
- Largest approval$40,000
- Jobs supported4
- Jobs per approval4.0
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full0
- Charged off1
- Median term100 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 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.
Florence County, not Coward
Florence County context, not Coward figures
These are Florence County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Coward measurements.
- Establishments in Florence County3,282
- Employment at those establishments, Florence County67,074
- Covered employment, Florence County68,848
- Average annual pay, Florence County$52,861
- Average weekly wage, Florence County$1,017
- Housing units permitted, Florence County666
- Of those, single family, Florence County580
- County product, 2024, Florence County$9,981,118,000
- County product change over the prior year, Florence County6.5 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Florence County$49,937
Every figure in this section is published for Florence County as a whole and is not a measurement of Coward. 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
Coward questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Coward, South Carolina?
853, in 333 households. Coward town covers 3.22 square miles of land, which is 265 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Coward in?
Florence 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 Coward?
$35,375. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $154,700. Median gross rent is $883 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Coward businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $40,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $40,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Coward, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Coward borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Coward. 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 Coward figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Florence 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 Coward.
Is zoning published for Coward?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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