Commercial Real Estate Market in Lake Charles, LA
Updated monthly: sale, lease, property records, location trend, and more… · Last update: October 31
254 active listings and 3,673 off-market properties in Lake Charles, LA. Commercial property asks $99/SF to buy and $17.80/SF/Yr to lease.
Market Trends
Lake Charles, LA spans 302.1 square miles in Calcasieu County, Louisiana. Figures below refresh monthly; last updated 31 October 2026.
Office
Office space in Lake Charles, LA asks $16.24/SF/Yr to lease; the median asking sale price is $118/SF. Vacancy runs 20.2% across the South region in 2025, up from 14.4% in 2019.
Typical asking range for active listings in Lake Charles, LA (the middle half): Lease $12.59–$21.59/SF/Yr (median $17.54/SF/Yr, 42 listings); Sale $90.56–$179/SF (median $118/SF, 35 listings).
Retail
Retail space in Lake Charles, LA has a median asking sale price of $118/SF. Vacancy runs 5.4% across the South region in 2025, down from 7% in 2020.
Typical asking range for active listings in Lake Charles, LA (the middle half): Lease $15.00–$21.50/SF/Yr (median $18.00/SF/Yr, 26 listings); Sale $79.25–$161/SF (median $118/SF, 13 listings).
Industrial
Industrial space in Lake Charles, LA has a median asking sale price of $80/SF. Vacancy runs 7.9% across the South region in 2025, up from 6% in 2019. Nearly 2.3x the 2022 low of 3.5%.
Typical asking range for active listings in Lake Charles, LA (the middle half): Lease $10.86–$16.26/SF/Yr (median $15.00/SF/Yr, 15 listings); Sale $46.56–$91.98/SF (median $79.55/SF, 20 listings).
Multifamily
Multifamily space in Lake Charles, LA has a median asking sale price of $89/SF. Vacancy runs 11.3% across the South region in 2025, up from 8.5% in 2022.
Typical asking range for active listings in Lake Charles, LA (the middle half): Sale $73.97–$117/SF (median $88.69/SF, 28 listings).
Market overview
Demographics & Economy
Lake Charles, LA has 142,498 residents in 62,903 households. Density runs 472 people per square mile. Median household income here is $69,819 and median gross rent $1,142 a month.
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Methodology & data sources
- Asking prices and medians
- There are 134 active for-sale and 120 active for-lease listings in Lake Charles, LA. The medians are based on 85 of the for-sale and 67 of the for-lease listings, those that state a price or rent per square foot. These are ASKING figures from live listings, not closed-transaction prices, and a figure resting on fewer than 10 listings says so where it is quoted.
- Vacancy rates
- Published per-sector market series, taken at the metro level where one exists and otherwise at the Census-region level — a chart reading "in <region> region" is a regional number, not this city's.
- Refresh
- The monthly aggregates close at the end of the previous month, so 31 October 2026 — not today — is the honest last update.
- Known limitations
- office vacancy is reported at South region level, retail vacancy is reported at South region level and industrial vacancy is reported at South region level.
- Coverage
- Metrics below the 10-observation threshold fall back one geographic level. The geography used is named on each figure.
Compiled by the Realmo Data team · reviewed 31 October 2026 · How Realmo checks market page data · Report a data issue
