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Carbon town, Texas: commercial real estate data.
Carbon town is a Census town of 280 people across 1.02 square miles of land, in Eastland County. Median household income is $80,500, 88.5 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $500,000.
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Carbon
What Carbon is
- Census place typetown
- Land area1.02 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land273 plus or minus 86
- County holding the largest share of its areaEastland 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.
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How many people live in Carbon
- Population280 plus or minus 88
- Median age40.0 plus or minus 19.7
- Population under 1873 plus or minus 37
- Share under 1826.1 percent plus or minus 10.2
- Population 65 and over59 plus or minus 44
- Share 65 and over21.1 percent plus or minus 14.2
- Households104 plus or minus 29
- Family households82 plus or minus 28
- Share of households that are families78.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Carbon
- Median household income$80,500 plus or minus $23,614
- Per capita income$38,045 plus or minus $12,569
- Civilian labor force126 plus or minus 48
- Employed125 plus or minus 48
- Unemployed1 plus or minus 3
- Unemployment rate0.8 percent plus or minus 2.4
- Adults 25 and over195 plus or minus 60
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher82.1 percent plus or minus 19.0
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher8.7 percent plus or minus 9.2
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.5 percent plus or minus 7.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Carbon
- Housing units144 plus or minus 36
- Occupied units104 plus or minus 29
- Vacant units40 plus or minus 24
- Vacancy rate27.8 percent plus or minus 15.2
- Owner occupied92 plus or minus 28
- Renter occupied12 plus or minus 9
- Ownership rate88.5 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$84,500 plus or minus $40,347
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,571 plus or minus $702
- Annual rent as a share of median income23.4 percent plus or minus 12.5
- Single family units109 plus or minus 36
- Share single family75.7 percent plus or minus 16.6
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes34 plus or minus 21
- Median year structure built1981
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Carbon gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute123 plus or minus 48
- Commuting under 15 minutes19 plus or minus 14
- Share commuting under 15 minutes15.4 percent plus or minus 10.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more39 plus or minus 26
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more31.7 percent plus or minus 17.2
- Drove alone87.0 percent
- Carpooled10.6 percent plus or minus 9.7
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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SBA loans in Carbon (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$500,000
- Average approval$500,000
- Median approval$500,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$500,000
- Largest approval$500,000
- Jobs supported4
- Jobs per approval4.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term84 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 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.
Eastland County, not Carbon
Eastland County context, not Carbon figures
These are Eastland County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Carbon measurements.
- Establishments in Eastland County489
- Employment at those establishments, Eastland County5,658
- Covered employment, Eastland County5,803
- Average annual pay, Eastland County$51,592
- Average weekly wage, Eastland County$992
- Housing units permitted, Eastland County16
- Of those, single family, Eastland County16
- County product, 2024, Eastland County$905,985,000
- County product change over the prior year, Eastland County1.8 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Eastland County$52,552
Every figure in this section is published for Eastland County as a whole and is not a measurement of Carbon. 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
Carbon questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Carbon, Texas?
280, in 104 households. Carbon town covers 1.02 square miles of land, which is 273 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Carbon in?
Eastland 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 Carbon?
$80,500. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $84,500. Median gross rent is $1,571 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Carbon businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $500,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $500,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Carbon, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Carbon borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Carbon. 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 Carbon figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Eastland 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 Carbon.
Is zoning published for Carbon?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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