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Waterville town, Washington: commercial real estate data.
Waterville town is a Census town of 1,250 people across 0.87 square miles of land, in Douglas County. Median household income is $78,589, 87.9 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 4 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $81,800.
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Waterville
What Waterville is
- Census place typetown
- Land area0.87 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,445 plus or minus 373
- County holding the largest share of its areaDouglas 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.
Waterville
How many people live in Waterville
- Population1,250 plus or minus 323
- Median age47.3 plus or minus 10.3
- Population under 18161 plus or minus 73
- Share under 1812.9 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Population 65 and over247 plus or minus 113
- Share 65 and over19.8 percent plus or minus 7.4
- Households462 plus or minus 116
- Family households325 plus or minus 111
- Share of households that are families70.3 percent plus or minus 16.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Waterville
Income and work in Waterville
- Median household income$78,589
- Per capita income$37,357
- Civilian labor force729 plus or minus 228
- Employed708 plus or minus 223
- Unemployed21 plus or minus 18
- Unemployment rate2.9 percent plus or minus 2.3
- Adults 25 and over964 plus or minus 260
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher82.1 percent plus or minus 30.5
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher9.9 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Waterville
Housing in Waterville
- Housing units536 plus or minus 131
- Occupied units462 plus or minus 116
- Vacant units74 plus or minus 52
- Vacancy rate13.8 percent plus or minus 9.1
- Owner occupied406 plus or minus 122
- Renter occupied56 plus or minus 35
- Ownership rate87.9 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$262,000
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,200 plus or minus $853
- Annual rent as a share of median income18.3 percent plus or minus 13.2
- Single family units470 plus or minus 125
- Share single family87.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more2 plus or minus 14
- Share in buildings of two or more0.4 percent plus or minus 2.6
- Mobile homes64 plus or minus 47
- Median year structure built1941
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Waterville
How Waterville gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute576 plus or minus 190
- Commuting under 15 minutes148 plus or minus 73
- Share commuting under 15 minutes25.7 percent plus or minus 9.5
- Commuting 30 minutes or more412 plus or minus 190
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more71.5 percent plus or minus 23.0
- Drove alone71.5 percent plus or minus 15.2
- Carpooled11.0 percent plus or minus 8.0
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked1.9 percent plus or minus 3.1
- Worked from home14.0 percent plus or minus 6.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Waterville
SBA loans in Waterville (7(a))
- Approvals4
- Gross approval$81,800
- Average approval$20,450
- Median approval$24,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$43,000
- Largest approval$43,000
- Jobs supported7
- Jobs per approval1.8
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- 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 NAICS3
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.
Douglas County, not Waterville
Douglas County context, not Waterville figures
These are Douglas County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Waterville measurements.
- Establishments in Douglas County854
- Employment at those establishments, Douglas County8,674
- Covered employment, Douglas County12,545
- Average annual pay, Douglas County$51,441
- Average weekly wage, Douglas County$989
- Housing units permitted, Douglas County230
- Of those, single family, Douglas County226
- County product, 2024, Douglas County$2,849,723,000
- County product change over the prior year, Douglas County10.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Douglas County$85,966
Every figure in this section is published for Douglas County as a whole and is not a measurement of Waterville. 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
Waterville questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Waterville, Washington?
1,250, in 462 households. Waterville town covers 0.87 square miles of land, which is 1,445 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Waterville in?
Douglas 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 Waterville?
$78,589. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $262,000. Median gross rent is $1,200 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Waterville businesses?
4 7(a) approvals totalling $81,800, across 1 lenders, median approval $24,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Waterville, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Waterville borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Waterville. 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 Waterville figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Douglas 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 Waterville.
Is zoning published for Waterville?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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