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Watts Mills CDP, South Carolina: commercial real estate data.
Watts Mills CDP is a Census CDP of 1,942 people across 2.27 square miles of land, in Laurens County. Median household income is $50,901, 42.1 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Watts Mills
What Watts Mills is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area2.27 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land856 plus or minus 389
- County holding the largest share of its areaLaurens 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.
Watts Mills
How many people live in Watts Mills
- Population1,942 plus or minus 883
- Median age30.5 plus or minus 6.7
- Population under 18492 plus or minus 232
- Share under 1825.3 percent
- Population 65 and over89 plus or minus 72
- Share 65 and over4.6 percent plus or minus 3.1
- Households573 plus or minus 221
- Family households426 plus or minus 190
- Share of households that are families74.3 percent plus or minus 16.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Watts Mills
Income and work in Watts Mills
- Median household income$50,901
- Per capita income$16,780 plus or minus $3,349
- Civilian labor force987 plus or minus 481
- Employed879 plus or minus 385
- Unemployed108 plus or minus 131
- Unemployment rate10.9 percent plus or minus 12.2
- Adults 25 and over1,369 plus or minus 600
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher49.1 percent plus or minus 30.3
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher2.8 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Watts Mills
Housing in Watts Mills
- Housing units692 plus or minus 230
- Occupied units573 plus or minus 221
- Vacant units119 plus or minus 104
- Vacancy rate17.2 percent plus or minus 13.9
- Owner occupied241 plus or minus 144
- Renter occupied332 plus or minus 179
- Ownership rate42.1 percent plus or minus 19.2
- Median owner-occupied home value$108,300 plus or minus $42,958
- Median gross rent, monthly$817 plus or minus $227
- Annual rent as a share of median income19.3 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Single family units511 plus or minus 185
- Share single family73.8 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more19 plus or minus 31
- Share in buildings of two or more2.7 percent plus or minus 4.4
- Mobile homes162 plus or minus 119
- Median year structure built1972
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Watts Mills
How Watts Mills gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute856 plus or minus 375
- Commuting under 15 minutes142 plus or minus 105
- Share commuting under 15 minutes16.6 percent plus or minus 9.9
- Commuting 30 minutes or more488 plus or minus 301
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more57.0 percent plus or minus 24.7
- Drove alone66.1 percent plus or minus 39.9
- Carpooled31.2 percent plus or minus 27.8
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.8 percent plus or minus 1.9
- Worked from home1.9 percent plus or minus 6.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Laurens County, not Watts Mills
Laurens County context, not Watts Mills figures
These are Laurens County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Watts Mills measurements.
- Establishments in Laurens County985
- Employment at those establishments, Laurens County17,683
- Covered employment, Laurens County20,195
- Average annual pay, Laurens County$51,561
- Average weekly wage, Laurens County$992
- Housing units permitted, Laurens County621
- Of those, single family, Laurens County621
- County product, 2024, Laurens County$2,913,878,000
- County product change over the prior year, Laurens County4.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Laurens County$48,704
Every figure in this section is published for Laurens County as a whole and is not a measurement of Watts Mills. 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.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- 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
Watts Mills questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Watts Mills, South Carolina?
1,942, in 573 households. Watts Mills CDP covers 2.27 square miles of land, which is 856 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Watts Mills in?
Laurens 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 Watts Mills?
$50,901. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $108,300. Median gross rent is $817 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Watts Mills figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Laurens 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 Watts Mills.
Is zoning published for Watts Mills?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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