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Auburn city, Alabama: commercial real estate data.
Auburn city is a Census city of 80,594 people across 62.95 square miles of land, in Lee County. Median household income is $63,668, 53.1 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 46 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $33.1 m.
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Auburn
What Auburn is
- Census place typecity
- Land area62.95 sq mi
- Water area1.03 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,280
- County holding the largest share of its areaLee 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.
Auburn
How many people live in Auburn
- Population80,594
- Median age25.9
- Population under 1815,589
- Share under 1819.3 percent
- Population 65 and over7,790
- Share 65 and over9.7 percent
- Households30,174
- Family households15,553
- Share of households that are families51.5 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Auburn
Income and work in Auburn
- Median household income$63,668
- Per capita income$37,018
- Civilian labor force39,828
- Employed38,542
- Unemployed1,286 plus or minus 336
- Unemployment rate3.2 percent plus or minus 0.8
- Adults 25 and over41,630
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher96.3 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher64.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree32.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Auburn
Housing in Auburn
- Housing units36,033
- Occupied units30,174
- Vacant units5,859
- Vacancy rate16.3 percent
- Owner occupied16,013
- Renter occupied14,161
- Ownership rate53.1 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$364,800
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,098
- Annual rent as a share of median income20.7 percent
- Single family units20,437
- Share single family56.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more14,269
- Share in buildings of two or more39.6 percent
- Mobile homes1,327
- Median year structure built2001
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Auburn
How Auburn gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute33,342
- Commuting under 15 minutes15,035
- Share commuting under 15 minutes45.1 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more6,078
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more18.2 percent
- Drove alone75.7 percent
- Carpooled7.1 percent plus or minus 1.6
- Public transport1.0 percent plus or minus 0.4
- Walked4.3 percent plus or minus 1.0
- Worked from home10.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Auburn
SBA loans in Auburn (7(a))
- Approvals46
- Gross approval$33,099,700
- Average approval$719,559
- Median approval$224,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$2,469,500
- Largest approval$5,000,000
- Jobs supported494
- Jobs per approval10.7
- Loans with a final outcome8
- Paid in full7
- Charged off1
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more10.9 percent
- Share to franchises15.2 percent
- Distinct lenders23
- Distinct industries by NAICS33
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 8 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.
Auburn
SBA loans in Auburn (504)
- Approvals38
- Gross approval$30,049,000
- Average approval$790,763
- Median approval$585,000
- Largest approval$3,946,000
- Jobs supported542
- Loans with a final outcome10
- Charged off1
- Charge-off rate over resolved loans10.0 percent
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs4
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Lee County, not Auburn
Lee County context, not Auburn figures
These are Lee County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Auburn measurements.
- Establishments in Lee County3,377
- Employment at those establishments, Lee County51,454
- Covered employment, Lee County66,643
- Average annual pay, Lee County$53,394
- Average weekly wage, Lee County$1,027
- Housing units permitted, Lee County1,877
- Of those, single family, Lee County1,716
- County product, 2024, Lee County$9,274,891,000
- County product change over the prior year, Lee County4.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Lee County$70,793
Every figure in this section is published for Lee County as a whole and is not a measurement of Auburn. 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
Auburn questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Auburn, Alabama?
80,594, in 30,174 households. Auburn city covers 62.95 square miles of land, which is 1,280 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Auburn in?
Lee 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 Auburn?
$63,668. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $364,800. Median gross rent is $1,098 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Auburn businesses?
46 7(a) approvals totalling $33.1 m, across 23 lenders, median approval $224,000, plus 38 504 approvals worth $30.0 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Auburn, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Auburn borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Auburn. only 8 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 Auburn figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Lee 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 Auburn.
Is zoning published for Auburn?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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