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Gibsland town, Louisiana: commercial real estate data.
Gibsland town is a Census town of 681 people across 2.63 square miles of land, in Bienville Parish. Median household income is $22,121, 57.5 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $3.9 m.
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Gibsland
What Gibsland is
- Census place typetown
- Land area2.63 sq mi
- Water area0.02 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land259 plus or minus 59
- County holding the largest share of its areaBienville Parish, 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.
Gibsland
How many people live in Gibsland
- Population681 plus or minus 156
- Median age50.2
- Population under 1886 plus or minus 55
- Share under 1812.6 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Population 65 and over182 plus or minus 78
- Share 65 and over26.7 percent plus or minus 9.6
- Households353 plus or minus 95
- Family households177 plus or minus 57
- Share of households that are families50.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Gibsland
Income and work in Gibsland
- Median household income$22,121
- Per capita income$21,031 plus or minus $4,299
- Civilian labor force278 plus or minus 90
- Employed274 plus or minus 89
- Unemployed4 plus or minus 10
- Unemployment rate1.4 percent plus or minus 3.6
- Adults 25 and over544 plus or minus 131
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher95.2 percent plus or minus 32.0
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher8.6 percent plus or minus 4.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.7 percent plus or minus 3.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Gibsland
Housing in Gibsland
- Housing units449 plus or minus 102
- Occupied units353 plus or minus 95
- Vacant units96 plus or minus 47
- Vacancy rate21.4 percent plus or minus 9.3
- Owner occupied203 plus or minus 92
- Renter occupied150 plus or minus 59
- Ownership rate57.5 percent plus or minus 21.0
- Median owner-occupied home value$93,300
- Median gross rent, monthly$567
- Annual rent as a share of median income30.8 percent
- Single family units232 plus or minus 70
- Share single family51.7 percent plus or minus 10.4
- Units in buildings of two or more50 plus or minus 35
- Share in buildings of two or more11.1 percent plus or minus 7.4
- Mobile homes167 plus or minus 88
- Median year structure built1977
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Gibsland
How Gibsland gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute258 plus or minus 89
- Commuting under 15 minutes70 plus or minus 46
- Share commuting under 15 minutes27.1 percent plus or minus 15.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more74 plus or minus 45
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more28.7 percent plus or minus 14.5
- Drove alone78.1 percent
- Carpooled12.2 percent plus or minus 11.6
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked2.5 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Worked from home7.2 percent plus or minus 7.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Gibsland
SBA 7(a) lending to Gibsland borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$3,931,000
- Average approval$3,931,000
- Median approval$3,931,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$3,931,000
- Largest approval$3,931,000
- Jobs supported4
- Jobs per approval4.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more100.0 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.
Bienville Parish, not Gibsland
Bienville Parish context, not Gibsland figures
These are Bienville Parish figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Gibsland measurements.
- Establishments in Bienville Parish209
- Employment at those establishments, Bienville Parish3,277
- Covered employment, Bienville Parish3,868
- Average annual pay, Bienville Parish$51,581
- Average weekly wage, Bienville Parish$992
- Housing units permitted, Bienville Parish18
- Of those, single family, Bienville Parish18
- County product, 2024, Bienville Parish$824,636,000
- County product change over the prior year, Bienville Parish-3.4 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Bienville Parish$40,857
Every figure in this section is published for Bienville Parish as a whole and is not a measurement of Gibsland. 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
Gibsland questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Gibsland, Louisiana?
681, in 353 households. Gibsland town covers 2.63 square miles of land, which is 259 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Gibsland in?
Bienville Parish, 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 Gibsland?
$22,121. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $93,300. Median gross rent is $567 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Gibsland businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $3.9 m, across 1 lenders, median approval $3,931,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Gibsland, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Gibsland borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Gibsland. 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 Gibsland figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Bienville Parish 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 Gibsland.
Is zoning published for Gibsland?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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