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Cottonwood city, Texas: commercial real estate data.
Cottonwood city is a Census city of 254 people across 1.44 square miles of land, in Kaufman County. Median household income is $99,038, 65.5 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Cottonwood
What Cottonwood is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.44 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land176 plus or minus 67
- County holding the largest share of its areaKaufman 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.
Cottonwood
How many people live in Cottonwood
- Population254 plus or minus 96
- Median age39.5 plus or minus 8.1
- Population under 1859 plus or minus 29
- Share under 1823.2 percent plus or minus 7.2
- Population 65 and over16 plus or minus 19
- Share 65 and over6.3 percent plus or minus 7.0
- Households84 plus or minus 37
- Family households59 plus or minus 26
- Share of households that are families70.2 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cottonwood
Income and work in Cottonwood
- Median household income$99,038 plus or minus $22,829
- Per capita income$56,220 plus or minus $26,200
- Civilian labor force163 plus or minus 63
- Employed144 plus or minus 61
- Unemployed19 plus or minus 19
- Unemployment rate11.7 percent plus or minus 10.8
- Adults 25 and over183 plus or minus 82
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher84.7 percent plus or minus 48.6
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher23.5 percent plus or minus 14.2
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree7.1 percent plus or minus 9.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cottonwood
Housing in Cottonwood
- Housing units89 plus or minus 38
- Occupied units84 plus or minus 37
- Vacant units5 plus or minus 7
- Vacancy rate5.6 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Owner occupied55 plus or minus 29
- Renter occupied29 plus or minus 24
- Ownership rate65.5 percent plus or minus 19.0
- Median owner-occupied home value$293,200 plus or minus $65,294
- Single family units82 plus or minus 42
- Share single family92.1 percent plus or minus 26.2
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes7 plus or minus 9
- Median year structure built1989
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cottonwood
How Cottonwood gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute141 plus or minus 61
- Commuting under 15 minutes21 plus or minus 24
- Share commuting under 15 minutes14.9 percent plus or minus 16.1
- Commuting 30 minutes or more83 plus or minus 45
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more58.9 percent plus or minus 18.8
- Drove alone88.0 percent
- Carpooled8.5 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked2.1 percent plus or minus 4.1
- Worked from home0.7 percent plus or minus 2.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cottonwood
Flood programme status in Cottonwood
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number480292
- Currently effective map date01/12/23(M)
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.
Kaufman County, not Cottonwood
Kaufman County context, not Cottonwood figures
These are Kaufman County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Cottonwood measurements.
- Establishments in Kaufman County2,500
- Employment at those establishments, Kaufman County34,851
- Covered employment, Kaufman County43,536
- Average annual pay, Kaufman County$55,964
- Average weekly wage, Kaufman County$1,076
- Housing units permitted, Kaufman County1,745
- Of those, single family, Kaufman County1,557
- County product, 2024, Kaufman County$6,966,835,000
- County product change over the prior year, Kaufman County8.5 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Kaufman County$64,233
Every figure in this section is published for Kaufman County as a whole and is not a measurement of Cottonwood. 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.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- 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
Cottonwood questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Cottonwood, Texas?
254, in 84 households. Cottonwood city covers 1.44 square miles of land, which is 176 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Cottonwood in?
Kaufman 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 Cottonwood?
$99,038. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $293,200. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Is Cottonwood in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Cottonwood appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 480292, 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 Cottonwood figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Kaufman 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 Cottonwood.
Is zoning published for Cottonwood?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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