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Calera city, Alabama: commercial real estate data.
Calera city is a Census city of 17,714 people across 24.31 square miles of land, in Shelby County. Median household income is $87,194, 79.3 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 7 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $4.4 m.
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Calera
What Calera is
- Census place typecity
- Land area24.31 sq mi
- Water area0.26 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land729
- County holding the largest share of its areaShelby County, 98.6 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.
Calera
How many people live in Calera
- Population17,714
- Median age33.9
- Population under 184,476
- Share under 1825.3 percent
- Population 65 and over1,478
- Share 65 and over8.3 percent
- Households6,686
- Family households4,931
- Share of households that are families73.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Calera
Income and work in Calera
- Median household income$87,194
- Per capita income$39,054
- Civilian labor force10,144
- Employed9,867
- Unemployed277 plus or minus 155
- Unemployment rate2.7 percent plus or minus 1.5
- Adults 25 and over11,712
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher93.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher37.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree9.8 percent plus or minus 2.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Calera
Housing in Calera
- Housing units6,907
- Occupied units6,686
- Vacant units221 plus or minus 125
- Vacancy rate3.2 percent plus or minus 1.8
- Owner occupied5,302
- Renter occupied1,384 plus or minus 290
- Ownership rate79.3 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$235,300
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,601
- Annual rent as a share of median income22.0 percent
- Single family units6,270
- Share single family90.8 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more352 plus or minus 161
- Share in buildings of two or more5.1 percent plus or minus 2.3
- Mobile homes285 plus or minus 162
- Median year structure built2006
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Calera
How Calera gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute8,168
- Commuting under 15 minutes1,156 plus or minus 282
- Share commuting under 15 minutes14.2 percent plus or minus 3.3
- Commuting 30 minutes or more4,696
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more57.5 percent
- Drove alone74.4 percent
- Carpooled8.0 percent plus or minus 2.9
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.3 percent plus or minus 0.4
- Worked from home16.2 percent plus or minus 4.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Calera
SBA loans in Calera (7(a))
- Approvals7
- Gross approval$4,449,800
- Average approval$635,686
- Median approval$200,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$2,089,500
- Largest approval$2,089,500
- Jobs supported164
- Jobs per approval23.4
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more14.3 percent
- Share to franchises71.4 percent
- Distinct lenders6
- Distinct industries by NAICS4
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.
Calera
SBA loans in Calera (504)
- Approvals9
- Gross approval$7,336,000
- Average approval$815,111
- Median approval$468,000
- Largest approval$3,574,000
- Jobs supported61
- 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 Calera
Shelby County context, not Calera 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 Calera 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 Calera. 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
Calera questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Calera, Alabama?
17,714, in 6,686 households. Calera city covers 24.31 square miles of land, which is 729 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Calera in?
Shelby County, which holds 98.6 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Calera?
$87,194. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $235,300. Median gross rent is $1,601 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Calera businesses?
7 7(a) approvals totalling $4.4 m, across 6 lenders, median approval $200,000, plus 9 504 approvals worth $7.3 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Calera, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Calera borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Calera. 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 Calera 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 Calera.
Is zoning published for Calera?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.