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Santa Ana city, California: commercial real estate data.
Santa Ana city is a Census city of 312,534 people across 27.38 square miles of land, in Orange County. Median household income is $93,999, 44.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 356 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $249.1 m.
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Santa Ana
What Santa Ana is
- Census place typecity
- Land area27.38 sq mi
- Water area0.03 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land11,416
- County holding the largest share of its areaOrange 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.
Santa Ana
How many people live in Santa Ana
- Population312,534
- Median age34.7
- Population under 1871,607
- Share under 1822.9 percent
- Population 65 and over35,609
- Share 65 and over11.4 percent
- Households81,069
- Family households64,169
- Share of households that are families79.2 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Santa Ana
Income and work in Santa Ana
- Median household income$93,999
- Per capita income$30,222
- Civilian labor force166,782
- Employed158,719
- Unemployed8,063
- Unemployment rate4.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over207,124
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher66.9 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher18.3 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Santa Ana
Housing in Santa Ana
- Housing units83,701
- Occupied units81,069
- Vacant units2,632
- Vacancy rate3.1 percent
- Owner occupied36,171
- Renter occupied44,898
- Ownership rate44.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$713,000
- Median gross rent, monthly$2,082
- Annual rent as a share of median income26.6 percent
- Single family units42,850
- Share single family51.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more36,390
- Share in buildings of two or more43.5 percent
- Mobile homes4,386
- Median year structure built1969
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Santa Ana
How Santa Ana gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute140,012
- Commuting under 15 minutes21,959
- Share commuting under 15 minutes15.7 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more44,835
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more32.0 percent
- Drove alone69.7 percent
- Carpooled14.0 percent
- Public transport2.7 percent
- Walked1.3 percent
- Worked from home9.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Santa Ana
SBA 7(a) lending to Santa Ana borrowers
- Approvals356
- Gross approval$249,109,000
- Average approval$699,744
- Median approval$265,500
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,857,000
- Largest approval$5,000,000
- Jobs supported4,130
- Jobs per approval11.6
- Loans with a final outcome70
- Paid in full62
- Charged off8
- Charge-off rate over resolved loans11.4 percent
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more20.8 percent
- Share to franchises4.5 percent
- Distinct lenders82
- Distinct industries by NAICS174
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Santa Ana
SBA 504 lending to Santa Ana borrowers
- Approvals273
- Gross approval$275,991,000
- Average approval$1,010,956
- Median approval$659,000
- Largest approval$5,498,000
- Jobs supported4,344
- Loans with a final outcome102
- Charged off3
- Charge-off rate over resolved loans2.9 percent
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs11
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Santa Ana
Flood programme status in Santa Ana
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number060232
- Currently effective map date12/03/09
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.
Orange County, not Santa Ana
Orange County context, not Santa Ana figures
These are Orange County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Santa Ana measurements.
- Establishments in Orange County106,961
- Employment at those establishments, Orange County1,580,778
- Covered employment, Orange County1,661,276
- Average annual pay, Orange County$81,403
- Average weekly wage, Orange County$1,565
- Housing units permitted, Orange County6,972
- Of those, single family, Orange County2,671
- County product, 2024, Orange County$351,752,654,000
- County product change over the prior year, Orange County5.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Orange County$114,759
Every figure in this section is published for Orange County as a whole and is not a measurement of Santa Ana. 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
Santa Ana questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Santa Ana, California?
312,534, in 81,069 households. Santa Ana city covers 27.38 square miles of land, which is 11,416 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Santa Ana in?
Orange 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 Santa Ana?
$93,999. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $713,000. Median gross rent is $2,082 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Santa Ana businesses?
356 7(a) approvals totalling $249.1 m, across 82 lenders, median approval $265,500, plus 273 504 approvals worth $276.0 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Santa Ana, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Santa Ana borrowers get paid back?
Of the 70 loans that have reached a final outcome, 62 were paid in full and 8 charged off, a charge off rate of 11.4 percent. Loans still running are excluded because they have not yet succeeded or failed.
Is Santa Ana in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Santa Ana appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 060232, 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 Santa Ana figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Orange 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 Santa Ana.
Is zoning published for Santa Ana?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.