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Buras CDP, Louisiana: commercial real estate data.
Buras CDP is a Census CDP of 607 people across 2.30 square miles of land, in Plaquemines Parish. Median household income is $54,167, 84.9 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 3 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $2.0 m.
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Buras
What Buras is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area2.3 sq mi
- Water area1.05 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land264 plus or minus 85
- County holding the largest share of its areaPlaquemines 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.
Buras
How many people live in Buras
- Population607 plus or minus 195
- Median age56.2
- Population under 18118 plus or minus 77
- Share under 1819.4 percent plus or minus 11.0
- Population 65 and over128 plus or minus 63
- Share 65 and over21.1 percent plus or minus 7.8
- Households272 plus or minus 93
- Family households146 plus or minus 53
- Share of households that are families53.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Buras
Income and work in Buras
- Median household income$54,167 plus or minus $43,084
- Per capita income$26,911 plus or minus $11,402
- Civilian labor force263 plus or minus 129
- Employed230 plus or minus 143
- Unemployed33 plus or minus 41
- Unemployment rate12.5 percent plus or minus 14.3
- Adults 25 and over449 plus or minus 147
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher52.1 percent plus or minus 13.4
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher4.0 percent plus or minus 5.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree1.6 percent plus or minus 3.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Buras
Housing in Buras
- Housing units475 plus or minus 118
- Occupied units272 plus or minus 93
- Vacant units203 plus or minus 109
- Vacancy rate42.7 percent plus or minus 20.3
- Owner occupied231 plus or minus 88
- Renter occupied41 plus or minus 37
- Ownership rate84.9 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$45,300 plus or minus $22,688
- Single family units76 plus or minus 63
- Share single family16.0 percent plus or minus 12.6
- Units in buildings of two or more18 plus or minus 34
- Share in buildings of two or more3.8 percent plus or minus 7.1
- Mobile homes381 plus or minus 102
- Median year structure built2004
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Buras
How Buras gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute196 plus or minus 135
- Commuting under 15 minutes32 plus or minus 34
- Share commuting under 15 minutes16.3 percent plus or minus 12.9
- Commuting 30 minutes or more33 plus or minus 37
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more16.8 percent plus or minus 14.9
- Drove alone83.2 percent plus or minus 20.4
- Carpooled4.2 percent plus or minus 6.5
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked4.2 percent plus or minus 8.0
- Worked from home8.4 percent plus or minus 12.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Buras
SBA 7(a) lending to Buras borrowers
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$1,990,100
- Average approval$663,367
- Median approval$740,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$750,100
- Largest approval$750,100
- Jobs supported23
- Jobs per approval7.7
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders3
- Distinct industries by NAICS3
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.
Plaquemines Parish, not Buras
Plaquemines Parish context, not Buras figures
These are Plaquemines Parish figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Buras measurements.
- Establishments in Plaquemines Parish644
- Employment at those establishments, Plaquemines Parish8,089
- Covered employment, Plaquemines Parish12,528
- Average annual pay, Plaquemines Parish$88,198
- Average weekly wage, Plaquemines Parish$1,696
- Housing units permitted, Plaquemines Parish88
- Of those, single family, Plaquemines Parish80
- County product, 2024, Plaquemines Parish$4,006,732,000
- County product change over the prior year, Plaquemines Parish7.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Plaquemines Parish$58,584
Every figure in this section is published for Plaquemines Parish as a whole and is not a measurement of Buras. 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.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- 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
Buras questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Buras, Louisiana?
607, in 272 households. Buras CDP covers 2.30 square miles of land, which is 264 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Buras in?
Plaquemines 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 Buras?
$54,167. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $45,300. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Buras businesses?
3 7(a) approvals totalling $2.0 m, across 3 lenders, median approval $740,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Buras, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Buras borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Buras. 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 Buras figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Plaquemines 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 Buras.
Is zoning published for Buras?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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