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Pickens city, South Carolina: commercial real estate data.
Pickens city is a Census city of 3,155 people across 3.06 square miles of land, in Pickens County. Median household income is $55,000, 68.0 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 23 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $2.9 m.
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Pickens
What Pickens is
- Census place typecity
- Land area3.06 sq mi
- Water area0.02 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,031
- County holding the largest share of its areaPickens 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.
Pickens
How many people live in Pickens
- Population3,155
- Median age40.6 plus or minus 10.2
- Population under 18651 plus or minus 181
- Share under 1820.6 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Population 65 and over562 plus or minus 146
- Share 65 and over17.8 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Households1,328
- Family households764
- Share of households that are families57.5 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Pickens
Income and work in Pickens
- Median household income$55,000 plus or minus $18,294
- Per capita income$28,466
- Civilian labor force1,459
- Employed1,440
- Unemployed19 plus or minus 24
- Unemployment rate1.3 percent plus or minus 1.6
- Adults 25 and over2,199
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher86.3 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher19.8 percent plus or minus 6.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree8.7 percent plus or minus 4.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Pickens
Housing in Pickens
- Housing units1,489
- Occupied units1,328
- Vacant units161 plus or minus 98
- Vacancy rate10.8 percent plus or minus 6.4
- Owner occupied903
- Renter occupied425 plus or minus 168
- Ownership rate68.0 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$204,100
- Median gross rent, monthly$828
- Annual rent as a share of median income18.1 percent plus or minus 6.5
- Single family units1,074
- Share single family72.1 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more318 plus or minus 123
- Share in buildings of two or more21.4 percent plus or minus 7.7
- Mobile homes97 plus or minus 64
- Median year structure built1964
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Pickens
How Pickens gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,376
- Commuting under 15 minutes391 plus or minus 163
- Share commuting under 15 minutes28.4 percent plus or minus 11.1
- Commuting 30 minutes or more606 plus or minus 182
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more44.0 percent plus or minus 11.5
- Drove alone79.2 percent
- Carpooled17.6 percent plus or minus 10.7
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.5 percent plus or minus 0.8
- Worked from home1.9 percent plus or minus 2.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Pickens
SBA 7(a) lending to Pickens borrowers
- Approvals23
- Gross approval$2,880,700
- Average approval$125,248
- Median approval$25,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$350,000
- Largest approval$510,000
- Jobs supported279
- Jobs per approval12.1
- Loans with a final outcome4
- Paid in full4
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more4.3 percent
- Share to franchises8.7 percent
- Distinct lenders9
- Distinct industries by NAICS16
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 4 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.
Pickens
SBA 504 lending to Pickens borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$172,000
- Average approval$172,000
- Median approval$172,000
- Largest approval$172,000
- Jobs supported2
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs1
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Pickens County, not Pickens
Pickens County context, not Pickens figures
These are Pickens County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Pickens measurements.
- Establishments in Pickens County2,254
- Employment at those establishments, Pickens County28,852
- Covered employment, Pickens County39,859
- Average annual pay, Pickens County$53,824
- Average weekly wage, Pickens County$1,035
- Housing units permitted, Pickens County1,424
- Of those, single family, Pickens County1,125
- County product, 2024, Pickens County$6,019,152,000
- County product change over the prior year, Pickens County6.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Pickens County$85,682
Every figure in this section is published for Pickens County as a whole and is not a measurement of Pickens. 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
Pickens questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Pickens, South Carolina?
3,155, in 1,328 households. Pickens city covers 3.06 square miles of land, which is 1,031 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Pickens in?
Pickens 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 Pickens?
$55,000. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $204,100. Median gross rent is $828 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Pickens businesses?
23 7(a) approvals totalling $2.9 m, across 9 lenders, median approval $25,000, plus 1 504 approvals worth $172,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Pickens, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Pickens borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Pickens. only 4 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 Pickens figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Pickens 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 Pickens.
Is zoning published for Pickens?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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