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Chalmette CDP, Louisiana: commercial real estate data.
Chalmette CDP is a Census CDP of 22,616 people across 7.17 square miles of land, in St. Bernard Parish. Median household income is $54,904, 61.2 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 14 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $8.2 m.
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Chalmette
What Chalmette is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area7.17 sq mi
- Water area0.79 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land3,152
- County holding the largest share of its areaSt. Bernard 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.
Chalmette
How many people live in Chalmette
- Population22,616
- Median age35.2
- Population under 185,782
- Share under 1825.6 percent
- Population 65 and over2,851
- Share 65 and over12.6 percent
- Households8,304
- Family households5,575
- Share of households that are families67.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chalmette
Income and work in Chalmette
- Median household income$54,904
- Per capita income$29,914
- Civilian labor force10,647
- Employed9,690
- Unemployed957 plus or minus 326
- Unemployment rate9.0 percent plus or minus 3.0
- Adults 25 and over14,757
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher83.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher13.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.5 percent plus or minus 1.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chalmette
Housing in Chalmette
- Housing units9,039
- Occupied units8,304
- Vacant units735 plus or minus 185
- Vacancy rate8.1 percent plus or minus 2.0
- Owner occupied5,078
- Renter occupied3,226
- Ownership rate61.2 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$214,700
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,110
- Annual rent as a share of median income24.3 percent
- Single family units7,016
- Share single family77.6 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more1,671
- Share in buildings of two or more18.5 percent
- Mobile homes306 plus or minus 112
- Median year structure built1978
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chalmette
How Chalmette gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute8,592
- Commuting under 15 minutes2,032
- Share commuting under 15 minutes23.6 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more4,458
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more51.9 percent
- Drove alone75.3 percent
- Carpooled11.2 percent plus or minus 2.6
- Public transport1.1 percent plus or minus 1.0
- Walked0.9 percent plus or minus 0.7
- Worked from home8.9 percent plus or minus 2.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chalmette
SBA 7(a) lending to Chalmette borrowers
- Approvals14
- Gross approval$8,213,000
- Average approval$586,643
- Median approval$150,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,425,000
- Largest approval$3,005,000
- Jobs supported121
- Jobs per approval8.6
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more7.1 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders12
- Distinct industries by NAICS14
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.
St. Bernard Parish, not Chalmette
St. Bernard Parish context, not Chalmette figures
These are St. Bernard Parish figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Chalmette measurements.
- Establishments in St. Bernard Parish705
- Employment at those establishments, St. Bernard Parish8,913
- Covered employment, St. Bernard Parish11,254
- Average annual pay, St. Bernard Parish$61,869
- Average weekly wage, St. Bernard Parish$1,190
- Housing units permitted, St. Bernard Parish112
- Of those, single family, St. Bernard Parish68
- County product, 2024, St. Bernard Parish$1,743,957,000
- County product change over the prior year, St. Bernard Parish2.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, St. Bernard Parish$47,410
Every figure in this section is published for St. Bernard Parish as a whole and is not a measurement of Chalmette. 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
Chalmette questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Chalmette, Louisiana?
22,616, in 8,304 households. Chalmette CDP covers 7.17 square miles of land, which is 3,152 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Chalmette in?
St. Bernard 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 Chalmette?
$54,904. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $214,700. Median gross rent is $1,110 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Chalmette businesses?
14 7(a) approvals totalling $8.2 m, across 12 lenders, median approval $150,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Chalmette, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Chalmette borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Chalmette. 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 Chalmette figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for St. Bernard 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 Chalmette.
Is zoning published for Chalmette?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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