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Sour Lake city, Texas: commercial real estate data.
Sour Lake city is a Census city of 2,130 people across 2.30 square miles of land, in Hardin County. Median household income is $73,241, 70.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $825,000.
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Sour Lake
What Sour Lake is
- Census place typecity
- Land area2.3 sq mi
- Water area0.04 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land925 plus or minus 247
- County holding the largest share of its areaHardin 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 Sour Lake
- Population2,130 plus or minus 568
- Median age34.5 plus or minus 6.9
- Population under 18674 plus or minus 213
- Share under 1831.6 percent
- Population 65 and over313 plus or minus 97
- Share 65 and over14.7 percent
- Households798 plus or minus 174
- Family households633 plus or minus 163
- Share of households that are families79.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Sour Lake
- Median household income$73,241 plus or minus $23,336
- Per capita income$32,944
- Civilian labor force990 plus or minus 262
- Employed925 plus or minus 251
- Unemployed65 plus or minus 56
- Unemployment rate6.6 percent plus or minus 5.4
- Adults 25 and over1,352 plus or minus 302
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher90.1 percent plus or minus 27.6
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher20.9 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.6 percent plus or minus 2.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Sour Lake
- Housing units936
- Occupied units798 plus or minus 174
- Vacant units138 plus or minus 67
- Vacancy rate14.7 percent plus or minus 6.6
- Owner occupied563 plus or minus 149
- Renter occupied235 plus or minus 96
- Ownership rate70.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$173,800 plus or minus $61,042
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,286
- Annual rent as a share of median income21.1 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Single family units695 plus or minus 161
- Share single family74.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more62 plus or minus 49
- Share in buildings of two or more6.6 percent plus or minus 5.1
- Mobile homes162 plus or minus 76
- Median year structure built1979
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Sour Lake gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute828 plus or minus 227
- Commuting under 15 minutes165 plus or minus 66
- Share commuting under 15 minutes19.9 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Commuting 30 minutes or more336 plus or minus 119
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more40.6 percent plus or minus 9.1
- Drove alone79.1 percent
- Carpooled5.5 percent plus or minus 4.3
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked1.0 percent plus or minus 1.4
- Worked from home9.9 percent plus or minus 5.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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SBA loans in Sour Lake (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$825,000
- Average approval$825,000
- Median approval$825,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$825,000
- Largest approval$825,000
- Jobs supported2
- Jobs per approval2.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more100.0 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.
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Flood risk in Sour Lake
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number480286
- Currently effective map date10/06/10
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Hardin County, not Sour Lake
Hardin County context, not Sour Lake figures
These are Hardin County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Sour Lake measurements.
- Establishments in Hardin County872
- Employment at those establishments, Hardin County8,993
- Covered employment, Hardin County12,197
- Average annual pay, Hardin County$52,391
- Average weekly wage, Hardin County$1,008
- Housing units permitted, Hardin County315
- Of those, single family, Hardin County315
- County product, 2024, Hardin County$1,853,272,000
- County product change over the prior year, Hardin County6.4 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Hardin County$63,149
Every figure in this section is published for Hardin County as a whole and is not a measurement of Sour Lake. 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.
- 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
Sour Lake questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Sour Lake, Texas?
2,130, in 798 households. Sour Lake city covers 2.30 square miles of land, which is 925 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Sour Lake in?
Hardin 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 Sour Lake?
$73,241. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $173,800. Median gross rent is $1,286 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Sour Lake businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $825,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $825,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Sour Lake, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Sour Lake borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Sour Lake. 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.
Is Sour Lake in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Sour Lake appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 480286, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Sour Lake figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Hardin 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 Sour Lake.
Is zoning published for Sour Lake?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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