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Morgan City city, Louisiana: commercial real estate data.
Morgan City city is a Census city of 11,064 people across 5.98 square miles of land, in St. Mary Parish. Median household income is $56,474, 57.1 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 14 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $9.1 m.
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Morgan City
What Morgan City is
- Census place typecity
- Land area5.98 sq mi
- Water area0.27 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,849
- County holding the largest share of its areaSt. Mary Parish, 98.1 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.
Morgan City
How many people live in Morgan City
- Population11,064
- Median age38.6
- Population under 182,509
- Share under 1822.7 percent
- Population 65 and over1,731
- Share 65 and over15.6 percent
- Households4,114
- Family households2,675
- Share of households that are families65.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Morgan City
Income and work in Morgan City
- Median household income$56,474
- Per capita income$29,178
- Civilian labor force5,262
- Employed4,856
- Unemployed406 plus or minus 238
- Unemployment rate7.7 percent plus or minus 4.5
- Adults 25 and over7,843
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher79.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher15.3 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.5 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 Morgan City
- Housing units5,224
- Occupied units4,114
- Vacant units1,110 plus or minus 266
- Vacancy rate21.2 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Owner occupied2,348
- Renter occupied1,766
- Ownership rate57.1 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$155,200
- Median gross rent, monthly$917
- Annual rent as a share of median income19.5 percent
- Single family units4,014
- Share single family76.8 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more941 plus or minus 286
- Share in buildings of two or more18.0 percent plus or minus 5.4
- Mobile homes269 plus or minus 108
- Median year structure built1969
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Morgan City gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute4,642
- Commuting under 15 minutes2,194 plus or minus 443
- Share commuting under 15 minutes47.3 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more1,277 plus or minus 323
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more27.5 percent plus or minus 6.6
- Drove alone85.0 percent
- Carpooled7.9 percent plus or minus 2.8
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked2.5 percent plus or minus 2.7
- Worked from home3.5 percent plus or minus 2.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Morgan City
SBA 7(a) lending to Morgan City borrowers
- Approvals14
- Gross approval$9,113,500
- Average approval$650,964
- Median approval$232,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,650,000
- Largest approval$1,861,000
- Jobs supported143
- Jobs per approval10.2
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term190 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more42.9 percent
- Share to franchises21.4 percent
- Distinct lenders12
- Distinct industries by NAICS11
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 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.
Morgan City
SBA 504 lending to Morgan City borrowers
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$1,179,000
- Average approval$589,500
- Median approval$865,000
- Largest approval$865,000
- Jobs supported25
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs1
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
St. Mary Parish, not Morgan City
St. Mary Parish context, not Morgan City figures
These are St. Mary Parish figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Morgan City measurements.
- Establishments in St. Mary Parish1,083
- Employment at those establishments, St. Mary Parish18,400
- Covered employment, St. Mary Parish19,838
- Average annual pay, St. Mary Parish$61,932
- Average weekly wage, St. Mary Parish$1,191
- Housing units permitted, St. Mary Parish47
- Of those, single family, St. Mary Parish27
- County product, 2024, St. Mary Parish$3,527,628,000
- County product change over the prior year, St. Mary Parish-1.2 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, St. Mary Parish$34,758
Every figure in this section is published for St. Mary Parish as a whole and is not a measurement of Morgan City. 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
Morgan City questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Morgan City, Louisiana?
11,064, in 4,114 households. Morgan City city covers 5.98 square miles of land, which is 1,849 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Morgan City in?
St. Mary Parish, which holds 98.1 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Morgan City?
$56,474. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $155,200. Median gross rent is $917 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Morgan City businesses?
14 7(a) approvals totalling $9.1 m, across 12 lenders, median approval $232,000, plus 2 504 approvals worth $1.2 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Morgan City, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Morgan City borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Morgan City. only 0 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 Morgan City figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for St. Mary 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 Morgan City.
Is zoning published for Morgan City?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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