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Ville Platte city, Louisiana: commercial real estate data.
Ville Platte city is a Census city of 6,253 people across 4.02 square miles of land, in Evangeline Parish. Median household income is $28,361, 43.7 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 5 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $2.9 m.
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Ville Platte
What Ville Platte is
- Census place typecity
- Land area4.02 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,557
- County holding the largest share of its areaEvangeline 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.
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How many people live in Ville Platte
- Population6,253
- Median age37.9
- Population under 181,610 plus or minus 364
- Share under 1825.7 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Population 65 and over1,120 plus or minus 231
- Share 65 and over17.9 percent plus or minus 3.7
- Households2,739
- Family households1,404
- Share of households that are families51.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Ville Platte
- Median household income$28,361
- Per capita income$17,817
- Civilian labor force2,534
- Employed1,955
- Unemployed579 plus or minus 243
- Unemployment rate22.8 percent plus or minus 9.1
- Adults 25 and over3,780
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher63.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher13.5 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree2.6 percent plus or minus 1.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Ville Platte
- Housing units3,341
- Occupied units2,739
- Vacant units602 plus or minus 166
- Vacancy rate18.0 percent plus or minus 4.7
- Owner occupied1,196
- Renter occupied1,543
- Ownership rate43.7 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$101,200 plus or minus $33,440
- Median gross rent, monthly$656
- Annual rent as a share of median income27.8 percent plus or minus 6.3
- Single family units2,279
- Share single family68.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more822 plus or minus 264
- Share in buildings of two or more24.6 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Mobile homes240 plus or minus 123
- Median year structure built1975
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Ville Platte gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,770
- Commuting under 15 minutes1,142 plus or minus 355
- Share commuting under 15 minutes64.5 percent plus or minus 17.1
- Commuting 30 minutes or more413 plus or minus 191
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more23.3 percent plus or minus 10.1
- Drove alone73.7 percent
- Carpooled8.6 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Public transport0.2 percent plus or minus 0.3
- Walked14.7 percent plus or minus 16.0
- Worked from home2.4 percent plus or minus 2.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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SBA loans in Ville Platte (7(a))
- Approvals5
- Gross approval$2,852,500
- Average approval$570,500
- Median approval$435,500
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,535,000
- Largest approval$1,535,000
- Jobs supported42
- Jobs per approval8.4
- Loans with a final outcome2
- Paid in full1
- Charged off1
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more20.0 percent
- Share to franchises20.0 percent
- Distinct lenders5
- Distinct industries by NAICS5
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 2 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.
Evangeline Parish, not Ville Platte
Evangeline Parish context, not Ville Platte figures
These are Evangeline Parish figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Ville Platte measurements.
- Establishments in Evangeline Parish494
- Employment at those establishments, Evangeline Parish6,677
- Covered employment, Evangeline Parish7,827
- Average annual pay, Evangeline Parish$43,671
- Average weekly wage, Evangeline Parish$840
- Housing units permitted, Evangeline Parish29
- Of those, single family, Evangeline Parish29
- County product, 2024, Evangeline Parish$1,176,607,000
- County product change over the prior year, Evangeline Parish3.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Evangeline Parish$37,742
Every figure in this section is published for Evangeline Parish as a whole and is not a measurement of Ville Platte. 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
Ville Platte questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Ville Platte, Louisiana?
6,253, in 2,739 households. Ville Platte city covers 4.02 square miles of land, which is 1,557 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Ville Platte in?
Evangeline 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 Ville Platte?
$28,361. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $101,200. Median gross rent is $656 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Ville Platte businesses?
5 7(a) approvals totalling $2.9 m, across 5 lenders, median approval $435,500. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Ville Platte, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Ville Platte borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Ville Platte. only 2 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 Ville Platte figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Evangeline 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 Ville Platte.
Is zoning published for Ville Platte?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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