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Jal city, New Mexico: commercial real estate data.
Jal city is a Census city of 2,364 people across 4.82 square miles of land, in Lea County. 72.5 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.1 m.
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Jal
What Jal is
- Census place typecity
- Land area4.82 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land490
- County holding the largest share of its areaLea County, 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.
Jal
How many people live in Jal
- Population2,364
- Median age39.6 plus or minus 11.2
- Population under 18576 plus or minus 217
- Share under 1824.4 percent plus or minus 8.1
- Population 65 and over369 plus or minus 131
- Share 65 and over15.6 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Households859
- Family households615 plus or minus 166
- Share of households that are families71.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Jal
- Per capita income$38,078 plus or minus $11,319
- Civilian labor force1,168 plus or minus 313
- Employed949 plus or minus 272
- Unemployed219 plus or minus 150
- Unemployment rate18.8 percent plus or minus 11.8
- Adults 25 and over1,505 plus or minus 304
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher73.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher19.0 percent plus or minus 12.6
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree13.8 percent plus or minus 12.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Jal
- Housing units1,004
- Occupied units859
- Vacant units145 plus or minus 69
- Vacancy rate14.4 percent plus or minus 6.4
- Owner occupied623 plus or minus 160
- Renter occupied236 plus or minus 118
- Ownership rate72.5 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$97,600 plus or minus $23,266
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,318
- Single family units826 plus or minus 182
- Share single family82.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more43 plus or minus 43
- Share in buildings of two or more4.3 percent plus or minus 4.3
- Mobile homes107 plus or minus 75
- Median year structure built1964
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Jal gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute905 plus or minus 276
- Commuting under 15 minutes504 plus or minus 229
- Share commuting under 15 minutes55.7 percent plus or minus 18.8
- Commuting 30 minutes or more315 plus or minus 128
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more34.8 percent plus or minus 9.3
- Drove alone95.4 percent
- Carpooled0.0 percent
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home4.6 percent plus or minus 5.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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SBA loans in Jal (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$1,140,000
- Average approval$1,140,000
- Median approval$1,140,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,140,000
- Largest approval$1,140,000
- Jobs supported12
- Jobs per approval12.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more100.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
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.
Lea County, not Jal
Lea County context, not Jal figures
These are Lea County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Jal measurements.
- Establishments in Lea County1,730
- Employment at those establishments, Lea County24,911
- Covered employment, Lea County33,770
- Average annual pay, Lea County$69,342
- Average weekly wage, Lea County$1,333
- Housing units permitted, Lea County172
- Of those, single family, Lea County172
- County product, 2024, Lea County$12,857,883,000
- County product change over the prior year, Lea County13.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Lea County$47,606
Every figure in this section is published for Lea County as a whole and is not a measurement of Jal. 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.
- The American Community Survey does not publish a median household income for this place, which happens where the sample is too small to support one.
- 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
Jal questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Jal, New Mexico?
2,364, in 859 households. Jal city covers 4.82 square miles of land, which is 490 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Jal in?
Lea County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
How much SBA lending goes to Jal businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $1.1 m, across 1 lenders, median approval $1,140,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Jal, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Jal borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Jal. 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 Jal figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Lea County 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 Jal.
Is zoning published for Jal?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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