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Salinas city, California: commercial real estate data.
Salinas city is a Census city of 161,761 people across 23.51 square miles of land, in Monterey County. Median household income is $91,908, 47.0 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 90 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $65.7 m.
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Salinas
What Salinas is
- Census place typecity
- Land area23.51 sq mi
- Water area0.03 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land6,879
- County holding the largest share of its areaMonterey 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.
Salinas
How many people live in Salinas
- Population161,761
- Median age32.4
- Population under 1847,551
- Share under 1829.4 percent
- Population 65 and over17,100
- Share 65 and over10.6 percent
- Households43,620
- Family households34,941
- Share of households that are families80.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Salinas
Income and work in Salinas
- Median household income$91,908
- Per capita income$29,650
- Civilian labor force73,416
- Employed69,941
- Unemployed3,475
- Unemployment rate4.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over97,489
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher62.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher16.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Salinas
Housing in Salinas
- Housing units45,249
- Occupied units43,620
- Vacant units1,629 plus or minus 343
- Vacancy rate3.6 percent plus or minus 0.8
- Owner occupied20,491
- Renter occupied23,129
- Ownership rate47.0 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$654,100
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,991
- Annual rent as a share of median income26.0 percent
- Single family units27,921
- Share single family61.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more15,360
- Share in buildings of two or more33.9 percent
- Mobile homes1,951
- Median year structure built1976
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Salinas
How Salinas gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute65,016
- Commuting under 15 minutes11,795
- Share commuting under 15 minutes18.1 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more22,423
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more34.5 percent
- Drove alone74.2 percent
- Carpooled10.9 percent
- Public transport0.7 percent plus or minus 0.3
- Walked1.2 percent plus or minus 0.4
- Worked from home4.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Salinas
SBA loans in Salinas (7(a))
- Approvals90
- Gross approval$65,695,700
- Average approval$729,952
- Median approval$279,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$2,823,800
- Largest approval$5,000,000
- Jobs supported1,151
- Jobs per approval12.8
- Loans with a final outcome20
- Paid in full20
- Charged off0
- Charge-off rate over resolved loans0.0 percent
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more17.8 percent
- Share to franchises14.4 percent
- Distinct lenders34
- Distinct industries by NAICS59
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Salinas
SBA loans in Salinas (504)
- Approvals44
- Gross approval$36,317,000
- Average approval$825,386
- Median approval$578,000
- Largest approval$4,068,000
- Jobs supported258
- Loans with a final outcome14
- Charged off0
- Charge-off rate over resolved loans0.0 percent
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs10
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Salinas
Flood risk in Salinas
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- Best Community Rating System classClass 7
- NFIP community number060202
- Currently effective map date11/30/23
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Monterey County, not Salinas
Monterey County context, not Salinas figures
These are Monterey County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Salinas measurements.
- Establishments in Monterey County9,212
- Employment at those establishments, Monterey County116,784
- Covered employment, Monterey County200,244
- Average annual pay, Monterey County$61,375
- Average weekly wage, Monterey County$1,180
- Housing units permitted, Monterey County677
- Of those, single family, Monterey County512
- County product, 2024, Monterey County$38,345,355,000
- County product change over the prior year, Monterey County3.5 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Monterey County$202,252
Every figure in this section is published for Monterey County as a whole and is not a measurement of Salinas. 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
Salinas questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Salinas, California?
161,761, in 43,620 households. Salinas city covers 23.51 square miles of land, which is 6,879 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Salinas in?
Monterey 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 Salinas?
$91,908. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $654,100. Median gross rent is $1,991 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Salinas businesses?
90 7(a) approvals totalling $65.7 m, across 34 lenders, median approval $279,000, plus 44 504 approvals worth $36.3 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Salinas, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Salinas borrowers get paid back?
Of the 20 loans that have reached a final outcome, 20 were paid in full and 0 charged off, a charge off rate of 0.0 percent. Loans still running are excluded because they have not yet succeeded or failed.
Is Salinas in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Salinas appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 060202, carrying Community Rating System class 7, which is a premium discount for exceeding the programme minimum. 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 Salinas figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Monterey 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 Salinas.
Is zoning published for Salinas?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.