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Lakehead CDP, California: commercial real estate data.
Lakehead CDP is a Census CDP of 577 people across 4.70 square miles of land, in Shasta County. Median household income is $56,563, 67.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 2 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $501,000.
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Lakehead
What Lakehead is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area4.7 sq mi
- Water area0.58 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land123 plus or minus 57
- County holding the largest share of its areaShasta 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.
Lakehead
How many people live in Lakehead
- Population577 plus or minus 266
- Median age51.2 plus or minus 11.8
- Population under 18122 plus or minus 108
- Share under 1821.1 percent plus or minus 15.9
- Population 65 and over176 plus or minus 68
- Share 65 and over30.5 percent plus or minus 18.3
- Households216 plus or minus 79
- Family households160 plus or minus 63
- Share of households that are families74.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lakehead
Income and work in Lakehead
- Median household income$56,563 plus or minus $20,833
- Per capita income$20,931 plus or minus $5,362
- Civilian labor force174 plus or minus 105
- Employed141 plus or minus 75
- Unemployed33 plus or minus 42
- Unemployment rate19.0 percent plus or minus 21.3
- Adults 25 and over455 plus or minus 168
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher95.4 percent plus or minus 46.6
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher23.1 percent plus or minus 14.6
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree11.9 percent plus or minus 11.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lakehead
Housing in Lakehead
- Housing units325 plus or minus 97
- Occupied units216 plus or minus 79
- Vacant units109 plus or minus 85
- Vacancy rate33.5 percent plus or minus 24.2
- Owner occupied146 plus or minus 57
- Renter occupied70 plus or minus 58
- Ownership rate67.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$272,200 plus or minus $79,015
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,875 plus or minus $1,781
- Annual rent as a share of median income39.8 percent plus or minus 40.5
- Single family units189 plus or minus 96
- Share single family58.2 percent plus or minus 23.9
- Units in buildings of two or more13 plus or minus 22
- Share in buildings of two or more4.0 percent plus or minus 6.7
- Mobile homes97 plus or minus 50
- Median year structure built1976
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lakehead
How Lakehead gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute134 plus or minus 74
- Commuting under 15 minutes53 plus or minus 49
- Share commuting under 15 minutes39.6 percent plus or minus 29.7
- Commuting 30 minutes or more71 plus or minus 57
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more53.0 percent plus or minus 31.0
- Drove alone71.0 percent plus or minus 28.9
- Carpooled16.7 percent plus or minus 13.2
- Public transport9.4 percent plus or minus 11.2
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home2.9 percent plus or minus 4.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lakehead
SBA loans in Lakehead (7(a))
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$501,000
- Average approval$250,500
- Median approval$450,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$450,000
- Largest approval$450,000
- Jobs supported4
- Jobs per approval2.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more50.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders2
- Distinct industries by NAICS2
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.
Lakehead
SBA loans in Lakehead (504)
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$1,081,000
- Average approval$360,333
- Median approval$434,000
- Largest approval$468,000
- Jobs supported16
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs2
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Shasta County, not Lakehead
Shasta County context, not Lakehead figures
These are Shasta County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Lakehead measurements.
- Establishments in Shasta County4,508
- Employment at those establishments, Shasta County53,944
- Covered employment, Shasta County70,090
- Average annual pay, Shasta County$59,352
- Average weekly wage, Shasta County$1,141
- Housing units permitted, Shasta County246
- Of those, single family, Shasta County246
- County product, 2024, Shasta County$11,869,690,000
- County product change over the prior year, Shasta County7.5 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Shasta County$65,210
Every figure in this section is published for Shasta County as a whole and is not a measurement of Lakehead. 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
Lakehead questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Lakehead, California?
577, in 216 households. Lakehead CDP covers 4.70 square miles of land, which is 123 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Lakehead in?
Shasta 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 Lakehead?
$56,563. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $272,200. Median gross rent is $1,875 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Lakehead businesses?
2 7(a) approvals totalling $501,000, across 2 lenders, median approval $450,000, plus 3 504 approvals worth $1.1 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Lakehead, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Lakehead borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Lakehead. 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 Lakehead figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Shasta 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 Lakehead.
Is zoning published for Lakehead?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.