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Kenai city, Alaska: commercial real estate data.
Kenai city is a Census city of 7,641 people across 29.14 square miles of land, in Kenai Peninsula Borough. Median household income is $87,083, 70.3 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 7 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.0 m.
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Kenai
What Kenai is
- Census place typecity
- Land area29.14 sq mi
- Water area6.82 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land262
- County holding the largest share of its areaKenai Peninsula Borough, 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.
Kenai
How many people live in Kenai
- Population7,641
- Median age34.4
- Population under 181,877
- Share under 1824.6 percent
- Population 65 and over955
- Share 65 and over12.5 percent
- Households3,051
- Family households1,903
- Share of households that are families62.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Kenai
Income and work in Kenai
- Median household income$87,083
- Per capita income$42,891
- Civilian labor force3,940
- Employed3,647
- Unemployed293 plus or minus 158
- Unemployment rate7.4 percent plus or minus 4.0
- Adults 25 and over5,011
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher96.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher28.1 percent plus or minus 5.6
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree8.5 percent plus or minus 3.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Kenai
- Housing units3,456
- Occupied units3,051
- Vacant units405 plus or minus 128
- Vacancy rate11.7 percent plus or minus 3.6
- Owner occupied2,146
- Renter occupied905 plus or minus 183
- Ownership rate70.3 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$283,900
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,138
- Annual rent as a share of median income15.7 percent plus or minus 3.4
- Single family units2,531
- Share single family73.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more892 plus or minus 205
- Share in buildings of two or more25.8 percent plus or minus 5.6
- Mobile homes22 plus or minus 34
- Median year structure built1983
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Kenai
How Kenai gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute3,327
- Commuting under 15 minutes1,673
- Share commuting under 15 minutes50.3 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more423 plus or minus 162
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more12.7 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Drove alone70.3 percent
- Carpooled15.2 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked3.5 percent plus or minus 3.3
- Worked from home4.9 percent plus or minus 3.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Kenai
SBA 7(a) lending to Kenai borrowers
- Approvals7
- Gross approval$1,030,000
- Average approval$147,143
- Median approval$80,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$400,000
- Largest approval$400,000
- Jobs supported24
- Jobs per approval3.4
- Loans with a final outcome2
- Paid in full2
- Charged off0
- Median term107 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders3
- Distinct industries by NAICS5
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 2 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.
Kenai
SBA 504 lending to Kenai borrowers
- Approvals10
- Gross approval$2,820,000
- Average approval$282,000
- Median approval$248,000
- Largest approval$783,000
- Jobs supported79
- Loans with a final outcome6
- Charged off1
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs2
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Kenai Peninsula Borough, not Kenai
Kenai Peninsula Borough context, not Kenai figures
These are Kenai Peninsula Borough figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Kenai measurements.
- Establishments in Kenai Peninsula Borough2,405
- Employment at those establishments, Kenai Peninsula Borough15,786
- Covered employment, Kenai Peninsula Borough21,474
- Average annual pay, Kenai Peninsula Borough$62,398
- Average weekly wage, Kenai Peninsula Borough$1,200
- Housing units permitted, Kenai Peninsula Borough152
- Of those, single family, Kenai Peninsula Borough104
- County product, 2024, Kenai Peninsula Borough$3,590,303,000
- County product change over the prior year, Kenai Peninsula Borough3.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Kenai Peninsula Borough$79,213
Every figure in this section is published for Kenai Peninsula Borough as a whole and is not a measurement of Kenai. 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
Kenai questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Kenai, Alaska?
7,641, in 3,051 households. Kenai city covers 29.14 square miles of land, which is 262 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Kenai in?
Kenai Peninsula Borough, 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 Kenai?
$87,083. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $283,900. Median gross rent is $1,138 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Kenai businesses?
7 7(a) approvals totalling $1.0 m, across 3 lenders, median approval $80,000, plus 10 504 approvals worth $2.8 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Kenai, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Kenai borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Kenai. only 2 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 Kenai figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Kenai Peninsula Borough 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 Kenai.
Is zoning published for Kenai?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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