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Wellford city, South Carolina: commercial real estate data.
Wellford city is a Census city of 3,515 people across 4.58 square miles of land, in Spartanburg County. Median household income is $57,338, 82.0 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 3 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $2.2 m.
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Wellford
What Wellford is
- Census place typecity
- Land area4.58 sq mi
- Water area0.03 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land768
- County holding the largest share of its areaSpartanburg 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.
Wellford
How many people live in Wellford
- Population3,515
- Median age28.8
- Population under 181,377 plus or minus 340
- Share under 1839.2 percent plus or minus 9.7
- Population 65 and over492 plus or minus 170
- Share 65 and over14.0 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Households1,169
- Family households914
- Share of households that are families78.2 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Wellford
- Median household income$57,338
- Per capita income$21,392
- Civilian labor force1,180 plus or minus 252
- Employed1,175 plus or minus 252
- Unemployed5 plus or minus 32
- Unemployment rate0.4 percent plus or minus 2.7
- Adults 25 and over1,966
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher87.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher13.4 percent plus or minus 7.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree6.1 percent plus or minus 6.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Wellford
- Housing units1,273
- Occupied units1,169
- Vacant units104 plus or minus 92
- Vacancy rate8.2 percent plus or minus 7.1
- Owner occupied958
- Renter occupied211 plus or minus 91
- Ownership rate82.0 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$223,000
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,261
- Annual rent as a share of median income26.4 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Single family units944 plus or minus 189
- Share single family74.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more132 plus or minus 98
- Share in buildings of two or more10.4 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Mobile homes197 plus or minus 100
- Median year structure built2002
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Wellford gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,121 plus or minus 242
- Commuting under 15 minutes271 plus or minus 137
- Share commuting under 15 minutes24.2 percent plus or minus 11.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more177 plus or minus 98
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more15.8 percent plus or minus 8.0
- Drove alone81.3 percent plus or minus 18.7
- Carpooled14.3 percent plus or minus 8.7
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home3.9 percent plus or minus 3.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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SBA 7(a) lending to Wellford borrowers
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$2,203,200
- Average approval$734,400
- Median approval$69,200
- Ninetieth percentile approval$2,124,000
- Largest approval$2,124,000
- Jobs supported61
- Jobs per approval20.3
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more33.3 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders3
- Distinct industries by NAICS3
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.
Spartanburg County, not Wellford
Spartanburg County context, not Wellford figures
These are Spartanburg County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Wellford measurements.
- Establishments in Spartanburg County7,399
- Employment at those establishments, Spartanburg County150,332
- Covered employment, Spartanburg County155,484
- Average annual pay, Spartanburg County$59,564
- Average weekly wage, Spartanburg County$1,145
- Housing units permitted, Spartanburg County3,129
- Of those, single family, Spartanburg County3,089
- County product, 2024, Spartanburg County$22,979,816,000
- County product change over the prior year, Spartanburg County6.3 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Spartanburg County$59,513
Every figure in this section is published for Spartanburg County as a whole and is not a measurement of Wellford. 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
Wellford questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Wellford, South Carolina?
3,515, in 1,169 households. Wellford city covers 4.58 square miles of land, which is 768 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Wellford in?
Spartanburg 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 Wellford?
$57,338. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $223,000. Median gross rent is $1,261 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Wellford businesses?
3 7(a) approvals totalling $2.2 m, across 3 lenders, median approval $69,200. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Wellford, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Wellford borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Wellford. 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 Wellford figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Spartanburg 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 Wellford.
Is zoning published for Wellford?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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