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Charleston city, Tennessee: commercial real estate data.
Charleston city is a Census city of 956 people across 1.15 square miles of land, in Bradley County. Median household income is $72,763, 78.7 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $499,000.
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Charleston
What Charleston is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.15 sq mi
- Water area0.03 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land833 plus or minus 223
- County holding the largest share of its areaBradley 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.
Charleston
How many people live in Charleston
- Population956 plus or minus 256
- Median age38.2 plus or minus 10.8
- Population under 18173 plus or minus 63
- Share under 1818.1 percent plus or minus 4.4
- Population 65 and over115 plus or minus 54
- Share 65 and over12.0 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Households418 plus or minus 115
- Family households228 plus or minus 72
- Share of households that are families54.5 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Charleston
Income and work in Charleston
- Median household income$72,763 plus or minus $16,327
- Per capita income$32,790
- Civilian labor force533 plus or minus 165
- Employed526 plus or minus 164
- Unemployed7 plus or minus 8
- Unemployment rate1.3 percent plus or minus 1.4
- Adults 25 and over718 plus or minus 202
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher90.5 percent plus or minus 33.7
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher11.4 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree7.4 percent plus or minus 4.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Charleston
Housing in Charleston
- Housing units481 plus or minus 117
- Occupied units418 plus or minus 115
- Vacant units63 plus or minus 35
- Vacancy rate13.1 percent plus or minus 6.5
- Owner occupied329 plus or minus 103
- Renter occupied89 plus or minus 40
- Ownership rate78.7 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$217,400 plus or minus $62,514
- Median gross rent, monthly$881
- Annual rent as a share of median income14.5 percent plus or minus 3.4
- Single family units392 plus or minus 106
- Share single family81.5 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more47 plus or minus 32
- Share in buildings of two or more9.8 percent plus or minus 6.3
- Mobile homes42 plus or minus 27
- Median year structure built1994
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Charleston
How Charleston gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute507 plus or minus 162
- Commuting under 15 minutes84 plus or minus 41
- Share commuting under 15 minutes16.6 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more246 plus or minus 96
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more48.5 percent plus or minus 10.8
- Drove alone86.3 percent
- Carpooled10.5 percent plus or minus 8.6
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home3.2 percent plus or minus 2.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Charleston
SBA loans in Charleston (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$499,000
- Average approval$499,000
- Median approval$499,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$499,000
- Largest approval$499,000
- Jobs supported3
- Jobs per approval3.0
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 1 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.
Bradley County, not Charleston
Bradley County context, not Charleston figures
These are Bradley County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Charleston measurements.
- Establishments in Bradley County2,074
- Employment at those establishments, Bradley County42,835
- Covered employment, Bradley County40,665
- Average annual pay, Bradley County$54,379
- Average weekly wage, Bradley County$1,046
- Housing units permitted, Bradley County768
- Of those, single family, Bradley County714
- County product, 2024, Bradley County$6,669,180,000
- County product change over the prior year, Bradley County5.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Bradley County$60,010
Every figure in this section is published for Bradley County as a whole and is not a measurement of Charleston. 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
Charleston questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Charleston, Tennessee?
956, in 418 households. Charleston city covers 1.15 square miles of land, which is 833 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Charleston in?
Bradley 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 Charleston?
$72,763. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $217,400. Median gross rent is $881 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Charleston businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $499,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $499,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Charleston, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Charleston borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Charleston. only 1 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 Charleston figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Bradley 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 Charleston.
Is zoning published for Charleston?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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