Baton rouge, LA — PPP Loan Data

Baton rouge, Louisiana received 22,848 Paycheck Protection Program loans totaling $1.48B. The average loan in the city was $64,615 — above the national program average of approximately $67,000.

87.2% of loans in Baton rouge — totaling $1.41B — received SBA forgiveness. Forgiveness required borrowers to demonstrate that funds were used for qualifying expenses and that they maintained employee headcount and compensation levels during the covered period.

Among the largest disclosed recipients in Baton rouge were JOHN H. CARTER CO., INC. ($10,000,000), PREMIUM INSPECTION & TESTING, INC. ($10,000,000), and VALLUZZO COMPANIES LLC ($9,963,600).

The most active industry sector in Baton rouge was Personal Care Services with 3,390 loans worth $53.3M, followed by Services to Buildings and Dwellings (1,075 loans).

Applicants in Baton rouge reported retaining 164,732 jobs through the program. These figures are self-reported and were not independently verified by the SBA. The majority of loans in this city — those under $150,000 — have borrower names withheld under FOIA Exemption 6.

Baton rouge is part of Louisiana, which received a total of thousands of PPP loans during the program period. City-level data is based on the borrower's self-reported city name; some variation in spelling may cause minor undercounting. See the methodology page for more detail on data limitations.