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Jena town, Louisiana: commercial real estate data.
Jena town is a Census town of 4,160 people across 5.50 square miles of land, in LaSalle Parish. Median household income is $71,730, 81.3 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.0 m.
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Jena
What Jena is
- Census place typetown
- Land area5.5 sq mi
- Water area0.03 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land757
- County holding the largest share of its areaLaSalle 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.
Jena
How many people live in Jena
- Population4,160
- Median age34.7
- Population under 181,064
- Share under 1825.6 percent
- Population 65 and over623 plus or minus 198
- Share 65 and over15.0 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Households1,463
- Family households967
- Share of households that are families66.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Jena
Income and work in Jena
- Median household income$71,730 plus or minus $24,533
- Per capita income$36,460
- Civilian labor force2,098
- Employed2,064
- Unemployed34 plus or minus 49
- Unemployment rate1.6 percent plus or minus 2.3
- Adults 25 and over2,809
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher91.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher21.8 percent plus or minus 8.7
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree9.9 percent plus or minus 5.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Jena
Housing in Jena
- Housing units1,681
- Occupied units1,463
- Vacant units218 plus or minus 99
- Vacancy rate13.0 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Owner occupied1,190
- Renter occupied273 plus or minus 168
- Ownership rate81.3 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$139,700 plus or minus $31,281
- Median gross rent, monthly$906 plus or minus $256
- Annual rent as a share of median income15.2 percent plus or minus 6.7
- Single family units1,397
- Share single family83.1 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more62 plus or minus 79
- Share in buildings of two or more3.7 percent plus or minus 4.7
- Mobile homes222 plus or minus 121
- Median year structure built1976
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Jena gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,912
- Commuting under 15 minutes959 plus or minus 273
- Share commuting under 15 minutes50.2 percent plus or minus 13.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more697 plus or minus 290
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more36.5 percent plus or minus 14.5
- Drove alone74.7 percent
- Carpooled11.7 percent plus or minus 7.2
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked2.1 percent plus or minus 3.4
- Worked from home6.0 percent plus or minus 4.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Jena
SBA loans in Jena (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$1,000,000
- Average approval$1,000,000
- Median approval$1,000,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,000,000
- Largest approval$1,000,000
- Jobs supported10
- Jobs per approval10.0
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term200 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 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.
LaSalle Parish, not Jena
LaSalle Parish context, not Jena figures
These are LaSalle Parish figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Jena measurements.
- Establishments in LaSalle Parish377
- Employment at those establishments, LaSalle Parish3,720
- Covered employment, LaSalle Parish4,680
- Average annual pay, LaSalle Parish$48,856
- Average weekly wage, LaSalle Parish$940
- Housing units permitted, LaSalle Parish13
- Of those, single family, LaSalle Parish9
- County product, 2024, LaSalle Parish$633,715,000
- County product change over the prior year, LaSalle Parish7.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, LaSalle Parish$55,335
Every figure in this section is published for LaSalle Parish as a whole and is not a measurement of Jena. 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
Jena questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Jena, Louisiana?
4,160, in 1,463 households. Jena town covers 5.50 square miles of land, which is 757 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Jena in?
LaSalle 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 Jena?
$71,730. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $139,700. Median gross rent is $906 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Jena businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $1.0 m, across 1 lenders, median approval $1,000,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Jena, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Jena borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Jena. 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 Jena figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for LaSalle 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 Jena.
Is zoning published for Jena?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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