HomeGeorgiaWalker CountyLookout Mountain city
Lookout Mountain city, Georgia: commercial real estate data.
Lookout Mountain city is a Census city of 1,721 people across 2.59 square miles of land, in Walker County. Median household income is $158,000, 84.0 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $75,000.
70 sourced place values · tier FULL · 8 sections
Lookout Mountain
What Lookout Mountain is
- Census place typecity
- Land area2.59 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land664
- County holding the largest share of its areaWalker 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.
Lookout Mountain
How many people live in Lookout Mountain
- Population1,721
- Median age36.1
- Population under 18570 plus or minus 133
- Share under 1833.1 percent
- Population 65 and over257 plus or minus 57
- Share 65 and over14.9 percent
- Households580
- Family households470
- Share of households that are families81.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lookout Mountain
Income and work in Lookout Mountain
- Median household income$158,000
- Per capita income$67,686
- Civilian labor force685
- Employed674
- Unemployed11 plus or minus 10
- Unemployment rate1.6 percent plus or minus 1.4
- Adults 25 and over1,069
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher98.4 percent plus or minus 21.5
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher85.8 percent plus or minus 19.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree29.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lookout Mountain
Housing in Lookout Mountain
- Housing units638
- Occupied units580
- Vacant units58 plus or minus 29
- Vacancy rate9.1 percent plus or minus 4.3
- Owner occupied487
- Renter occupied93 plus or minus 44
- Ownership rate84.0 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$564,600
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,213 plus or minus $377
- Annual rent as a share of median income9.2 percent plus or minus 3.1
- Single family units581
- Share single family91.1 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more57 plus or minus 38
- Share in buildings of two or more8.9 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1959
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lookout Mountain
How Lookout Mountain gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute526
- Commuting under 15 minutes146 plus or minus 44
- Share commuting under 15 minutes27.8 percent plus or minus 6.8
- Commuting 30 minutes or more103 plus or minus 42
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more19.6 percent plus or minus 7.2
- Drove alone71.3 percent plus or minus 17.9
- Carpooled7.1 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.6 percent plus or minus 1.1
- Worked from home20.1 percent plus or minus 7.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lookout Mountain
SBA 7(a) lending to Lookout Mountain borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$75,000
- Average approval$75,000
- Median approval$75,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$75,000
- Largest approval$75,000
- Jobs supported8
- Jobs per approval8.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
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.
Lookout Mountain
Flood programme status in Lookout Mountain
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating0
- NFIP community number130448
- Currently effective map date09/05/07
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.
Walker County, not Lookout Mountain
Walker County context, not Lookout Mountain figures
These are Walker County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Lookout Mountain measurements.
- Establishments in Walker County756
- Employment at those establishments, Walker County12,406
- Covered employment, Walker County14,922
- Average annual pay, Walker County$45,778
- Average weekly wage, Walker County$880
- Housing units permitted, Walker County344
- Of those, single family, Walker County317
- County product, 2024, Walker County$2,268,103,000
- County product change over the prior year, Walker County7.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Walker County$49,438
Every figure in this section is published for Walker County as a whole and is not a measurement of Lookout Mountain. 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
Lookout Mountain questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Lookout Mountain, Georgia?
1,721, in 580 households. Lookout Mountain city covers 2.59 square miles of land, which is 664 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Lookout Mountain in?
Walker 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 Lookout Mountain?
$158,000. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $564,600. Median gross rent is $1,213 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Lookout Mountain businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $75,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $75,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Lookout Mountain, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Lookout Mountain borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Lookout Mountain. 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.
Is Lookout Mountain in the National Flood Insurance Program?
It is listed but not shown as participating. Lookout Mountain appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 130448, 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 Lookout Mountain figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Walker 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 Lookout Mountain.
Is zoning published for Lookout Mountain?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
Nearby