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Driftwood CDP, Texas: commercial real estate data.
Driftwood CDP is a Census CDP of 28 people across 1.29 square miles of land, in Hays County. 100.0 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 16 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $6.9 m.
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This is a small place, and the figures below carry wide margins.
The American Community Survey reaches Driftwood through a sample, not a count, and in a place this size that sample is thin. The population estimate here is 28 with a margin of error of plus or minus 34, which is 121.4 percent of the estimate itself. Every figure whose margin reaches 20 percent is printed with that margin beside it, so you can see the width of each one rather than having to assume it. Because the margin here exceeds the estimate, this page shows its strongest sections only rather than a full profile.
Nothing has been removed or adjusted. These are the published federal estimates, shown with the uncertainty the Census publishes alongside them.
Driftwood
What Driftwood is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area1.29 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land22 plus or minus 26
- County holding the largest share of its areaHays 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.
Driftwood
Housing in Driftwood
- Housing units40 plus or minus 45
- Occupied units16 plus or minus 18
- Vacant units24 plus or minus 41
- Vacancy rate60.0 percent plus or minus 77.1
- Owner occupied16 plus or minus 18
- Renter occupied0
- Ownership rate100.0 percent
- Single family units16 plus or minus 18
- Share single family40.0 percent plus or minus 9.0
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes24 plus or minus 41
- Median year structure built2012
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Driftwood
SBA 7(a) lending to Driftwood borrowers
- Approvals16
- Gross approval$6,940,600
- Average approval$433,788
- Median approval$250,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,000,000
- Largest approval$2,319,300
- Jobs supported117
- Jobs per approval7.3
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more18.8 percent
- Share to franchises18.8 percent
- Distinct lenders8
- Distinct industries by NAICS10
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.
Driftwood
SBA 504 lending to Driftwood borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$1,725,000
- Average approval$1,725,000
- Median approval$1,725,000
- Largest approval$1,725,000
- Jobs supported8
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Distinct CDCs1
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Hays County, not Driftwood
Hays County context, not Driftwood figures
These are Hays County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Driftwood measurements.
- Establishments in Hays County5,891
- Employment at those establishments, Hays County76,995
- Covered employment, Hays County95,598
- Average annual pay, Hays County$54,838
- Average weekly wage, Hays County$1,055
- Housing units permitted, Hays County5,405
- Of those, single family, Hays County3,918
- County product, 2024, Hays County$15,303,461,000
- County product change over the prior year, Hays County8.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Hays County$104,368
Every figure in this section is published for Hays County as a whole and is not a measurement of Driftwood. 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.
- The American Community Survey does not publish a median household income for this place, which happens where the sample is too small to support one.
- No median owner-occupied home value is published for this place.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- 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
Driftwood questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Driftwood, Texas?
28, in 16 households. Driftwood CDP covers 1.29 square miles of land, which is 22 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Driftwood in?
Hays County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
How much SBA lending goes to Driftwood businesses?
16 7(a) approvals totalling $6.9 m, across 8 lenders, median approval $250,000, plus 1 504 approvals worth $1.7 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Driftwood, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Driftwood borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Driftwood. 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 Driftwood figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Hays 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 Driftwood.
Is zoning published for Driftwood?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.