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Alabaster city, Alabama: commercial real estate data.
Alabaster city is a Census city of 33,917 people across 26.25 square miles of land, in Shelby County. Median household income is $91,357, 87.1 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 27 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $18.7 m.
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Alabaster
What Alabaster is
- Census place typecity
- Land area26.25 sq mi
- Water area0.32 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,292
- County holding the largest share of its areaShelby 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.
Alabaster
How many people live in Alabaster
- Population33,917
- Median age39.6
- Population under 188,396
- Share under 1824.8 percent
- Population 65 and over4,876
- Share 65 and over14.4 percent
- Households12,087
- Family households9,161
- Share of households that are families75.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Alabaster
Income and work in Alabaster
- Median household income$91,357
- Per capita income$40,642
- Civilian labor force17,983
- Employed17,533
- Unemployed450 plus or minus 208
- Unemployment rate2.5 percent plus or minus 1.2
- Adults 25 and over22,502
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher93.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher41.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree12.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Alabaster
Housing in Alabaster
- Housing units12,534
- Occupied units12,087
- Vacant units447 plus or minus 180
- Vacancy rate3.6 percent plus or minus 1.4
- Owner occupied10,523
- Renter occupied1,564
- Ownership rate87.1 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$261,700
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,372
- Annual rent as a share of median income18.0 percent
- Single family units11,149
- Share single family89.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more648 plus or minus 198
- Share in buildings of two or more5.2 percent plus or minus 1.6
- Mobile homes737 plus or minus 221
- Median year structure built1994
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Alabaster
How Alabaster gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute14,350
- Commuting under 15 minutes2,596
- Share commuting under 15 minutes18.1 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more7,683
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more53.5 percent
- Drove alone72.5 percent
- Carpooled8.0 percent plus or minus 2.1
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.5 percent plus or minus 0.5
- Worked from home17.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Alabaster
SBA 7(a) lending to Alabaster borrowers
- Approvals27
- Gross approval$18,660,900
- Average approval$691,144
- Median approval$320,700
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,864,400
- Largest approval$5,000,000
- Jobs supported247
- Jobs per approval9.1
- Loans with a final outcome4
- Paid in full3
- Charged off1
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more18.5 percent
- Share to franchises14.8 percent
- Distinct lenders20
- Distinct industries by NAICS22
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 4 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.
Alabaster
SBA 504 lending to Alabaster borrowers
- Approvals10
- Gross approval$8,032,000
- Average approval$803,200
- Median approval$757,000
- Largest approval$2,119,000
- Jobs supported101
- Loans with a final outcome4
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Distinct CDCs3
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Shelby County, not Alabaster
Shelby County context, not Alabaster figures
These are Shelby County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Alabaster measurements.
- Establishments in Shelby County5,610
- Employment at those establishments, Shelby County87,718
- Covered employment, Shelby County85,169
- Average annual pay, Shelby County$66,772
- Average weekly wage, Shelby County$1,284
- Housing units permitted, Shelby County990
- Of those, single family, Shelby County990
- County product, 2024, Shelby County$17,332,832,000
- County product change over the prior year, Shelby County3.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Shelby County$90,316
Every figure in this section is published for Shelby County as a whole and is not a measurement of Alabaster. 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
Alabaster questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Alabaster, Alabama?
33,917, in 12,087 households. Alabaster city covers 26.25 square miles of land, which is 1,292 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Alabaster in?
Shelby 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 Alabaster?
$91,357. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $261,700. Median gross rent is $1,372 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Alabaster businesses?
27 7(a) approvals totalling $18.7 m, across 20 lenders, median approval $320,700, plus 10 504 approvals worth $8.0 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Alabaster, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Alabaster borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Alabaster. only 4 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 Alabaster figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Shelby 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 Alabaster.
Is zoning published for Alabaster?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.