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Onalaska CDP, Washington: commercial real estate data.
Onalaska CDP is a Census CDP of 848 people across 1.60 square miles of land, in Lewis County. 57.4 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 4 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $6.7 m.
64 sourced place values · tier FULL · 7 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
Onalaska
What Onalaska is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area1.6 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land529 plus or minus 258
- County holding the largest share of its areaLewis 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.
Onalaska
How many people live in Onalaska
- Population848 plus or minus 414
- Median age38.4 plus or minus 20.5
- Population under 18148 plus or minus 103
- Share under 1817.5 percent plus or minus 8.7
- Population 65 and over278 plus or minus 137
- Share 65 and over32.8 percent
- Households333 plus or minus 162
- Family households274 plus or minus 147
- Share of households that are families82.3 percent plus or minus 18.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Onalaska
Income and work in Onalaska
- Per capita income$27,449 plus or minus $6,402
- Civilian labor force350 plus or minus 237
- Employed301 plus or minus 205
- Unemployed49 plus or minus 69
- Unemployment rate14.0 percent plus or minus 17.3
- Adults 25 and over657 plus or minus 325
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher90.7 percent plus or minus 57.8
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher19.0 percent plus or minus 14.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.8 percent plus or minus 4.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Onalaska
Housing in Onalaska
- Housing units365 plus or minus 166
- Occupied units333 plus or minus 162
- Vacant units32 plus or minus 51
- Vacancy rate8.8 percent plus or minus 13.4
- Owner occupied191 plus or minus 127
- Renter occupied142 plus or minus 120
- Ownership rate57.4 percent plus or minus 26.0
- Median owner-occupied home value$423,700 plus or minus $155,414
- Median gross rent, monthly$844 plus or minus $635
- Single family units247 plus or minus 156
- Share single family67.7 percent plus or minus 29.6
- Units in buildings of two or more79 plus or minus 88
- Share in buildings of two or more21.6 percent plus or minus 22.0
- Mobile homes39 plus or minus 32
- Median year structure built1976
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Onalaska gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute240 plus or minus 223
- Commuting under 15 minutes29 plus or minus 44
- Share commuting under 15 minutes12.1 percent plus or minus 14.5
- Commuting 30 minutes or more112 plus or minus 114
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more46.7 percent plus or minus 19.1
- Drove alone88.6 percent plus or minus 38.8
- Carpooled0.0 percent
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home11.4 percent plus or minus 4.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Onalaska
SBA loans in Onalaska (7(a))
- Approvals4
- Gross approval$6,675,000
- Average approval$1,668,750
- Median approval$2,515,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$3,760,000
- Largest approval$3,760,000
- Jobs supported32
- Jobs per approval8.0
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more50.0 percent
- Share to franchises50.0 percent
- Distinct lenders4
- Distinct industries by NAICS4
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.
Lewis County, not Onalaska
Lewis County context, not Onalaska figures
These are Lewis County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Onalaska measurements.
- Establishments in Lewis County1,990
- Employment at those establishments, Lewis County22,275
- Covered employment, Lewis County27,148
- Average annual pay, Lewis County$58,706
- Average weekly wage, Lewis County$1,129
- Housing units permitted, Lewis County265
- Of those, single family, Lewis County196
- County product, 2024, Lewis County$5,122,314,000
- County product change over the prior year, Lewis County7.2 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Lewis County$65,319
Every figure in this section is published for Lewis County as a whole and is not a measurement of Onalaska. 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
Onalaska questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Onalaska, Washington?
848, in 333 households. Onalaska CDP covers 1.60 square miles of land, which is 529 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Onalaska in?
Lewis 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 Onalaska businesses?
4 7(a) approvals totalling $6.7 m, across 4 lenders, median approval $2,515,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Onalaska, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Onalaska borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Onalaska. 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 Onalaska figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Lewis 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 Onalaska.
Is zoning published for Onalaska?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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