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Baker city, Louisiana: commercial real estate data.
Baker city is a Census city of 12,253 people across 8.43 square miles of land, in East Baton Rouge Parish. Median household income is $54,750, 69.9 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 9 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $2.9 m.
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Baker
What Baker is
- Census place typecity
- Land area8.43 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,453
- County holding the largest share of its areaEast Baton Rouge 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.
Baker
How many people live in Baker
- Population12,253
- Median age33.5
- Population under 183,222
- Share under 1826.3 percent
- Population 65 and over1,390
- Share 65 and over11.3 percent
- Households4,292
- Family households3,098
- Share of households that are families72.2 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Baker
Income and work in Baker
- Median household income$54,750 plus or minus $12,198
- Per capita income$23,746
- Civilian labor force6,138
- Employed5,117
- Unemployed1,021 plus or minus 361
- Unemployment rate16.6 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Adults 25 and over7,518
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher88.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher20.6 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree7.4 percent plus or minus 2.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Baker
Housing in Baker
- Housing units5,009
- Occupied units4,292
- Vacant units717 plus or minus 261
- Vacancy rate14.3 percent plus or minus 5.1
- Owner occupied2,999
- Renter occupied1,293 plus or minus 309
- Ownership rate69.9 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$157,900
- Median gross rent, monthly$993 plus or minus $301
- Annual rent as a share of median income21.8 percent plus or minus 8.2
- Single family units3,945
- Share single family78.8 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more722 plus or minus 279
- Share in buildings of two or more14.4 percent plus or minus 5.4
- Mobile homes342 plus or minus 173
- Median year structure built1979
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Baker
How Baker gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute4,851
- Commuting under 15 minutes1,063 plus or minus 349
- Share commuting under 15 minutes21.9 percent plus or minus 6.7
- Commuting 30 minutes or more1,792 plus or minus 416
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more36.9 percent plus or minus 7.4
- Drove alone83.8 percent
- Carpooled12.2 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home3.8 percent plus or minus 2.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Baker
SBA loans in Baker (7(a))
- Approvals9
- Gross approval$2,949,100
- Average approval$327,678
- Median approval$194,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,245,000
- Largest approval$1,245,000
- Jobs supported63
- Jobs per approval7.0
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more33.3 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders8
- Distinct industries by NAICS9
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 1 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.
East Baton Rouge Parish, not Baker
East Baton Rouge Parish context, not Baker figures
These are East Baton Rouge Parish figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Baker measurements.
- Establishments in East Baton Rouge Parish12,542
- Employment at those establishments, East Baton Rouge Parish244,574
- Covered employment, East Baton Rouge Parish270,603
- Average annual pay, East Baton Rouge Parish$66,778
- Average weekly wage, East Baton Rouge Parish$1,284
- Housing units permitted, East Baton Rouge Parish2,305
- Of those, single family, East Baton Rouge Parish1,770
- County product, 2024, East Baton Rouge Parish$47,132,325,000
- County product change over the prior year, East Baton Rouge Parish6.8 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, East Baton Rouge Parish$63,598
Every figure in this section is published for East Baton Rouge Parish as a whole and is not a measurement of Baker. 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
Baker questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Baker, Louisiana?
12,253, in 4,292 households. Baker city covers 8.43 square miles of land, which is 1,453 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Baker in?
East Baton Rouge 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 Baker?
$54,750. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $157,900. Median gross rent is $993 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Baker businesses?
9 7(a) approvals totalling $2.9 m, across 8 lenders, median approval $194,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Baker, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Baker borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Baker. only 1 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 Baker figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for East Baton Rouge 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 Baker.
Is zoning published for Baker?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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