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Saluda town, South Carolina: commercial real estate data.
Saluda town is a Census town of 3,055 people across 3.25 square miles of land, in Saluda County. Median household income is $42,506, 49.0 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 6 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $2.6 m.
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Saluda
What Saluda is
- Census place typetown
- Land area3.25 sq mi
- Water area0.04 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land940
- County holding the largest share of its areaSaluda 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.
Saluda
How many people live in Saluda
- Population3,055
- Median age30.9
- Population under 181,019 plus or minus 206
- Share under 1833.4 percent plus or minus 6.7
- Population 65 and over308 plus or minus 86
- Share 65 and over10.1 percent plus or minus 2.8
- Households1,197
- Family households868
- Share of households that are families72.5 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Saluda
Income and work in Saluda
- Median household income$42,506 plus or minus $11,130
- Per capita income$15,495
- Civilian labor force1,258
- Employed1,211
- Unemployed47 plus or minus 49
- Unemployment rate3.7 percent plus or minus 3.9
- Adults 25 and over1,713
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher74.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher14.1 percent plus or minus 5.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.8 percent plus or minus 2.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Saluda
Housing in Saluda
- Housing units1,303
- Occupied units1,197
- Vacant units106 plus or minus 64
- Vacancy rate8.1 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Owner occupied586 plus or minus 120
- Renter occupied611 plus or minus 144
- Ownership rate49.0 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$77,700 plus or minus $35,641
- Median gross rent, monthly$816
- Annual rent as a share of median income23.0 percent plus or minus 6.9
- Single family units672
- Share single family51.6 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more211 plus or minus 116
- Share in buildings of two or more16.2 percent plus or minus 8.7
- Mobile homes420 plus or minus 122
- Median year structure built1987
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Saluda
How Saluda gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,142
- Commuting under 15 minutes450 plus or minus 147
- Share commuting under 15 minutes39.4 percent plus or minus 11.8
- Commuting 30 minutes or more333 plus or minus 118
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more29.2 percent plus or minus 9.6
- Drove alone46.2 percent
- Carpooled21.7 percent plus or minus 10.9
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked8.5 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Worked from home2.3 percent plus or minus 2.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Saluda
SBA 7(a) lending to Saluda borrowers
- Approvals6
- Gross approval$2,578,500
- Average approval$429,750
- Median approval$393,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$720,000
- Largest approval$720,000
- Jobs supported47
- Jobs per approval7.8
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more16.7 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders3
- Distinct industries by NAICS4
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.
Saluda County, not Saluda
Saluda County context, not Saluda figures
These are Saluda County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Saluda measurements.
- Establishments in Saluda County257
- Employment at those establishments, Saluda County4,210
- Covered employment, Saluda County4,733
- Average annual pay, Saluda County$46,825
- Average weekly wage, Saluda County$900
- Housing units permitted, Saluda County52
- Of those, single family, Saluda County52
- County product, 2024, Saluda County$643,173,000
- County product change over the prior year, Saluda County10.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Saluda County$66,150
Every figure in this section is published for Saluda County as a whole and is not a measurement of Saluda. 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
Saluda questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Saluda, South Carolina?
3,055, in 1,197 households. Saluda town covers 3.25 square miles of land, which is 940 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Saluda in?
Saluda 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 Saluda?
$42,506. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $77,700. Median gross rent is $816 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Saluda businesses?
6 7(a) approvals totalling $2.6 m, across 3 lenders, median approval $393,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Saluda, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Saluda borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Saluda. 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 Saluda figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Saluda 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 Saluda.
Is zoning published for Saluda?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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