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Sumter city, South Carolina: commercial real estate data.
Sumter city is a Census city of 43,053 people across 33.13 square miles of land, in Sumter County. Median household income is $55,592, 57.2 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 33 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $38.3 m.
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Sumter
What Sumter is
- Census place typecity
- Land area33.13 sq mi
- Water area0.2 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,299
- County holding the largest share of its areaSumter 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.
Sumter
How many people live in Sumter
- Population43,053
- Median age33.6
- Population under 1811,192
- Share under 1826.0 percent
- Population 65 and over7,590
- Share 65 and over17.6 percent
- Households16,081
- Family households10,066
- Share of households that are families62.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sumter
Income and work in Sumter
- Median household income$55,592
- Per capita income$29,338
- Civilian labor force17,146
- Employed16,020
- Unemployed1,126 plus or minus 286
- Unemployment rate6.6 percent plus or minus 1.6
- Adults 25 and over27,037
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher89.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher28.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree10.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sumter
Housing in Sumter
- Housing units18,739
- Occupied units16,081
- Vacant units2,658
- Vacancy rate14.2 percent
- Owner occupied9,203
- Renter occupied6,878
- Ownership rate57.2 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$199,100
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,076
- Annual rent as a share of median income23.2 percent
- Single family units13,144
- Share single family70.1 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more4,533
- Share in buildings of two or more24.2 percent
- Mobile homes1,038 plus or minus 246
- Median year structure built1986
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sumter
How Sumter gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute17,241
- Commuting under 15 minutes7,374
- Share commuting under 15 minutes42.8 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more3,142
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more18.2 percent
- Drove alone82.3 percent
- Carpooled8.8 percent plus or minus 1.9
- Public transport0.1 percent plus or minus 0.2
- Walked1.8 percent plus or minus 0.8
- Worked from home6.1 percent plus or minus 1.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sumter
SBA loans in Sumter (7(a))
- Approvals33
- Gross approval$38,264,300
- Average approval$1,159,524
- Median approval$350,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$3,800,000
- Largest approval$5,000,000
- Jobs supported355
- Jobs per approval10.8
- Loans with a final outcome7
- Paid in full7
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more42.4 percent
- Share to franchises18.2 percent
- Distinct lenders19
- Distinct industries by NAICS20
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 7 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.
Sumter
SBA loans in Sumter (504)
- Approvals10
- Gross approval$8,824,000
- Average approval$882,400
- Median approval$619,000
- Largest approval$2,349,000
- Jobs supported211
- Loans with a final outcome3
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs4
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Sumter County, not Sumter
Sumter County context, not Sumter figures
These are Sumter County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Sumter measurements.
- Establishments in Sumter County1,833
- Employment at those establishments, Sumter County29,449
- Covered employment, Sumter County35,179
- Average annual pay, Sumter County$53,273
- Average weekly wage, Sumter County$1,024
- Housing units permitted, Sumter County386
- Of those, single family, Sumter County344
- County product, 2024, Sumter County$6,287,811,000
- County product change over the prior year, Sumter County7.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Sumter County$51,245
Every figure in this section is published for Sumter County as a whole and is not a measurement of Sumter. 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
Sumter questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Sumter, South Carolina?
43,053, in 16,081 households. Sumter city covers 33.13 square miles of land, which is 1,299 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Sumter in?
Sumter 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 Sumter?
$55,592. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $199,100. Median gross rent is $1,076 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Sumter businesses?
33 7(a) approvals totalling $38.3 m, across 19 lenders, median approval $350,000, plus 10 504 approvals worth $8.8 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Sumter, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Sumter borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Sumter. only 7 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 Sumter figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Sumter 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 Sumter.
Is zoning published for Sumter?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.