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Palmdale city, California: commercial real estate data.
Palmdale city is a Census city of 164,634 people across 106.06 square miles of land, in Los Angeles County. Median household income is $81,770, 66.2 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 133 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $73.2 m.
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Palmdale
What Palmdale is
- Census place typecity
- Land area106.06 sq mi
- Water area0.24 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,552
- County holding the largest share of its areaLos Angeles 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.
Palmdale
How many people live in Palmdale
- Population164,634
- Median age33.0
- Population under 1848,640
- Share under 1829.5 percent
- Population 65 and over18,344
- Share 65 and over11.1 percent
- Households46,373
- Family households37,353
- Share of households that are families80.5 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Palmdale
Income and work in Palmdale
- Median household income$81,770
- Per capita income$29,441
- Civilian labor force74,459
- Employed68,267
- Unemployed6,192
- Unemployment rate8.3 percent
- Adults 25 and over101,058
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher77.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher17.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree5.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Palmdale
Housing in Palmdale
- Housing units48,467
- Occupied units46,373
- Vacant units2,094
- Vacancy rate4.3 percent
- Owner occupied30,701
- Renter occupied15,672
- Ownership rate66.2 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$471,000
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,802
- Annual rent as a share of median income26.4 percent
- Single family units38,859
- Share single family80.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more7,391
- Share in buildings of two or more15.2 percent
- Mobile homes2,164
- Median year structure built1989
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Palmdale
How Palmdale gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute60,355
- Commuting under 15 minutes10,252
- Share commuting under 15 minutes17.0 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more29,637
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more49.1 percent
- Drove alone72.5 percent
- Carpooled14.2 percent
- Public transport0.9 percent plus or minus 0.3
- Walked0.7 percent plus or minus 0.3
- Worked from home9.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Palmdale
SBA 7(a) lending to Palmdale borrowers
- Approvals133
- Gross approval$73,193,700
- Average approval$550,329
- Median approval$195,500
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,436,500
- Largest approval$5,000,000
- Jobs supported1,619
- Jobs per approval12.2
- Loans with a final outcome26
- Paid in full22
- Charged off4
- Charge-off rate over resolved loans15.4 percent
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more23.3 percent
- Share to franchises12.0 percent
- Distinct lenders50
- Distinct industries by NAICS72
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Palmdale
SBA 504 lending to Palmdale borrowers
- Approvals61
- Gross approval$60,221,000
- Average approval$987,230
- Median approval$534,000
- Largest approval$5,500,000
- Jobs supported778
- Loans with a final outcome19
- Charged off1
- Charge-off rate over resolved loans5.3 percent
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs9
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Palmdale
Flood programme status in Palmdale
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number060144
- Currently effective map date06/02/21
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Los Angeles County, not Palmdale
Los Angeles County context, not Palmdale figures
These are Los Angeles County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Palmdale measurements.
- Establishments in Los Angeles County304,988
- Employment at those establishments, Los Angeles County3,987,736
- Covered employment, Los Angeles County4,525,711
- Average annual pay, Los Angeles County$83,554
- Average weekly wage, Los Angeles County$1,607
- Housing units permitted, Los Angeles County19,809
- Of those, single family, Los Angeles County9,106
- County product, 2024, Los Angeles County$1,002,965,029,000
- County product change over the prior year, Los Angeles County4.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Los Angeles County$103,070
Every figure in this section is published for Los Angeles County as a whole and is not a measurement of Palmdale. 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.
- 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
Palmdale questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Palmdale, California?
164,634, in 46,373 households. Palmdale city covers 106.06 square miles of land, which is 1,552 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Palmdale in?
Los Angeles 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 Palmdale?
$81,770. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $471,000. Median gross rent is $1,802 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Palmdale businesses?
133 7(a) approvals totalling $73.2 m, across 50 lenders, median approval $195,500, plus 61 504 approvals worth $60.2 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Palmdale, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Palmdale borrowers get paid back?
Of the 26 loans that have reached a final outcome, 22 were paid in full and 4 charged off, a charge off rate of 15.4 percent. Loans still running are excluded because they have not yet succeeded or failed.
Is Palmdale in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Palmdale appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 060144, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Palmdale figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Los Angeles 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 Palmdale.
Is zoning published for Palmdale?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.