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Alexandria city, Louisiana: commercial real estate data.
Alexandria city is a Census city of 44,060 people across 28.48 square miles of land, in Rapides Parish. Median household income is $47,113, 51.9 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 30 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $19.6 m.
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Alexandria
What Alexandria is
- Census place typecity
- Land area28.48 sq mi
- Water area0.7 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,547
- County holding the largest share of its areaRapides 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.
Alexandria
How many people live in Alexandria
- Population44,060
- Median age37.6
- Population under 1810,186
- Share under 1823.1 percent
- Population 65 and over7,531
- Share 65 and over17.1 percent
- Households17,233
- Family households10,409
- Share of households that are families60.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Alexandria
Income and work in Alexandria
- Median household income$47,113
- Per capita income$29,639
- Civilian labor force20,279
- Employed19,218
- Unemployed1,061 plus or minus 237
- Unemployment rate5.2 percent plus or minus 1.2
- Adults 25 and over29,750
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher85.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher25.3 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree11.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Alexandria
- Housing units21,100
- Occupied units17,233
- Vacant units3,867
- Vacancy rate18.3 percent
- Owner occupied8,948
- Renter occupied8,285
- Ownership rate51.9 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$183,700
- Median gross rent, monthly$931
- Annual rent as a share of median income23.7 percent
- Single family units15,054
- Share single family71.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more5,405
- Share in buildings of two or more25.6 percent
- Mobile homes641 plus or minus 250
- Median year structure built1971
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Alexandria gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute17,716
- Commuting under 15 minutes8,921
- Share commuting under 15 minutes50.4 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more1,950 plus or minus 463
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more11.0 percent plus or minus 2.6
- Drove alone77.7 percent
- Carpooled8.4 percent plus or minus 2.2
- Public transport2.0 percent plus or minus 0.9
- Walked1.2 percent plus or minus 0.6
- Worked from home5.1 percent plus or minus 1.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Alexandria
SBA 7(a) lending to Alexandria borrowers
- Approvals30
- Gross approval$19,637,700
- Average approval$654,590
- Median approval$215,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,977,000
- Largest approval$4,650,000
- Jobs supported491
- Jobs per approval16.4
- Loans with a final outcome8
- Paid in full8
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more13.3 percent
- Share to franchises13.3 percent
- Distinct lenders16
- Distinct industries by NAICS25
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 8 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.
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SBA 504 lending to Alexandria borrowers
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$1,232,000
- Average approval$410,667
- Median approval$462,000
- Largest approval$620,000
- Jobs supported76
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs3
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Rapides Parish, not Alexandria
Rapides Parish context, not Alexandria figures
These are Rapides Parish figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Alexandria measurements.
- Establishments in Rapides Parish3,172
- Employment at those establishments, Rapides Parish46,374
- Covered employment, Rapides Parish56,422
- Average annual pay, Rapides Parish$51,777
- Average weekly wage, Rapides Parish$996
- Housing units permitted, Rapides Parish237
- Of those, single family, Rapides Parish215
- County product, 2024, Rapides Parish$7,414,380,000
- County product change over the prior year, Rapides Parish2.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Rapides Parish$48,182
Every figure in this section is published for Rapides Parish as a whole and is not a measurement of Alexandria. 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
Alexandria questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Alexandria, Louisiana?
44,060, in 17,233 households. Alexandria city covers 28.48 square miles of land, which is 1,547 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Alexandria in?
Rapides 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 Alexandria?
$47,113. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $183,700. Median gross rent is $931 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Alexandria businesses?
30 7(a) approvals totalling $19.6 m, across 16 lenders, median approval $215,000, plus 3 504 approvals worth $1.2 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Alexandria, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Alexandria borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Alexandria. only 8 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 Alexandria figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Rapides 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 Alexandria.
Is zoning published for Alexandria?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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