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Altoona town, Alabama: commercial real estate data.
Altoona town is a Census town of 1,252 people across 4.60 square miles of land, lying across Etowah County and Blount County. Median household income is $43,056, 65.4 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $455,000.
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Altoona
What Altoona is
- Census place typetown
- Land area4.6 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land272 plus or minus 112
- County holding the largest share of its areaEtowah County, 77.7 percent
- Counties this place lies inEtowah County 77.7 percent, Blount County 22.3 percent
Altoona town crosses a county line. The split above is measured from the Census boundary of the place against the county boundaries, by area, so it says where the ground is and not where the town hall is.
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Altoona
How many people live in Altoona
- Population1,252 plus or minus 514
- Median age40.9 plus or minus 8.5
- Population under 18169 plus or minus 74
- Share under 1813.5 percent
- Population 65 and over263 plus or minus 111
- Share 65 and over21.0 percent
- Households454 plus or minus 166
- Family households317 plus or minus 144
- Share of households that are families69.8 percent plus or minus 18.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Altoona
Income and work in Altoona
- Median household income$43,056 plus or minus $17,183
- Per capita income$24,483 plus or minus $5,261
- Civilian labor force597 plus or minus 342
- Employed557 plus or minus 336
- Unemployed40 plus or minus 39
- Unemployment rate6.7 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Adults 25 and over1,034 plus or minus 455
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher82.0 percent plus or minus 50.6
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher7.7 percent plus or minus 6.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.7 percent plus or minus 0.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Altoona
Housing in Altoona
- Housing units554 plus or minus 174
- Occupied units454 plus or minus 166
- Vacant units100 plus or minus 51
- Vacancy rate18.1 percent plus or minus 7.3
- Owner occupied297 plus or minus 135
- Renter occupied157 plus or minus 71
- Ownership rate65.4 percent plus or minus 17.7
- Median owner-occupied home value$114,100 plus or minus $84,863
- Median gross rent, monthly$380 plus or minus $85
- Annual rent as a share of median income10.6 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Single family units374 plus or minus 149
- Share single family67.5 percent plus or minus 16.4
- Units in buildings of two or more122 plus or minus 59
- Share in buildings of two or more22.0 percent plus or minus 8.2
- Mobile homes58 plus or minus 33
- Median year structure built1974
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Altoona
How Altoona gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute528 plus or minus 327
- Commuting under 15 minutes55 plus or minus 47
- Share commuting under 15 minutes10.4 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more168 plus or minus 84
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more31.8 percent plus or minus 25.3
- Drove alone90.8 percent plus or minus 21.6
- Carpooled0.5 percent plus or minus 1.8
- Public transport0.4 percent plus or minus 0.9
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home5.2 percent plus or minus 4.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Altoona
SBA 7(a) lending to Altoona borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$455,000
- Average approval$455,000
- Median approval$455,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$455,000
- Largest approval$455,000
- Jobs supported6
- Jobs per approval6.0
- 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 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.
Etowah County, not Altoona
Etowah County context, not Altoona figures
These are Etowah County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Altoona measurements.
- Establishments in Etowah County1,954
- Employment at those establishments, Etowah County28,155
- Covered employment, Etowah County33,010
- Average annual pay, Etowah County$46,564
- Average weekly wage, Etowah County$895
- Housing units permitted, Etowah County133
- Of those, single family, Etowah County117
- County product, 2024, Etowah County$4,025,620,000
- County product change over the prior year, Etowah County5.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Etowah County$55,897
Every figure in this section is published for Etowah County as a whole and is not a measurement of Altoona. 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
Altoona questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Altoona, Alabama?
1,252, in 454 households. Altoona town covers 4.60 square miles of land, which is 272 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Altoona in?
Altoona lies in more than one. By area it is 77.7 percent in Etowah County, 22.3 percent in Blount County. This page sits under Etowah County because that county holds the largest share. The split is measured from the Census boundary of the place against the county boundaries.
What is the median household income in Altoona?
$43,056. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $114,100. Median gross rent is $380 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Altoona businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $455,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $455,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Altoona, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Altoona borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Altoona. 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 Altoona figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Etowah 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 Altoona.
Is zoning published for Altoona?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.