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Mitchell city, Indiana: commercial real estate data.
Mitchell city is a Census city of 3,937 people across 3.59 square miles of land, in Lawrence County. Median household income is $48,930, 61.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 6 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $2.9 m.
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Mitchell
What Mitchell is
- Census place typecity
- Land area3.59 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,096
- County holding the largest share of its areaLawrence 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.
Mitchell
How many people live in Mitchell
- Population3,937
- Median age38.3
- Population under 18945 plus or minus 209
- Share under 1824.0 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Population 65 and over554 plus or minus 125
- Share 65 and over14.1 percent plus or minus 3.2
- Households1,525
- Family households933
- Share of households that are families61.2 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Mitchell
Income and work in Mitchell
- Median household income$48,930
- Per capita income$26,355
- Civilian labor force1,876
- Employed1,738
- Unemployed138 plus or minus 90
- Unemployment rate7.4 percent plus or minus 4.7
- Adults 25 and over2,609
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher82.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher14.4 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree7.5 percent plus or minus 3.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Mitchell
Housing in Mitchell
- Housing units1,735
- Occupied units1,525
- Vacant units210 plus or minus 141
- Vacancy rate12.1 percent plus or minus 8.0
- Owner occupied940
- Renter occupied585 plus or minus 160
- Ownership rate61.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$114,500
- Median gross rent, monthly$849
- Annual rent as a share of median income20.8 percent plus or minus 4.3
- Single family units1,261
- Share single family72.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more227 plus or minus 137
- Share in buildings of two or more13.1 percent plus or minus 7.7
- Mobile homes247 plus or minus 120
- Median year structure built1978
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Mitchell
How Mitchell gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,584
- Commuting under 15 minutes415 plus or minus 136
- Share commuting under 15 minutes26.2 percent plus or minus 7.8
- Commuting 30 minutes or more308 plus or minus 107
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more19.4 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Drove alone77.7 percent
- Carpooled15.8 percent plus or minus 7.0
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.5 percent plus or minus 0.8
- Worked from home6.1 percent plus or minus 4.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Mitchell
SBA 7(a) lending to Mitchell borrowers
- Approvals6
- Gross approval$2,915,000
- Average approval$485,833
- Median approval$617,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$928,000
- Largest approval$928,000
- Jobs supported15
- Jobs per approval2.5
- 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 franchises33.3 percent
- Distinct lenders5
- Distinct industries by NAICS6
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.
Lawrence County, not Mitchell
Lawrence County context, not Mitchell figures
These are Lawrence County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Mitchell measurements.
- Establishments in Lawrence County909
- Employment at those establishments, Lawrence County12,033
- Covered employment, Lawrence County13,507
- Average annual pay, Lawrence County$49,342
- Average weekly wage, Lawrence County$949
- Housing units permitted, Lawrence County10
- Of those, single family, Lawrence County10
- County product, 2024, Lawrence County$1,784,277,000
- County product change over the prior year, Lawrence County1.8 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Lawrence County$50,233
Every figure in this section is published for Lawrence County as a whole and is not a measurement of Mitchell. 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
Mitchell questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Mitchell, Indiana?
3,937, in 1,525 households. Mitchell city covers 3.59 square miles of land, which is 1,096 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Mitchell in?
Lawrence County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Mitchell?
$48,930. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $114,500. Median gross rent is $849 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Mitchell businesses?
6 7(a) approvals totalling $2.9 m, across 5 lenders, median approval $617,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Mitchell, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Mitchell borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Mitchell. 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 Mitchell figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Lawrence 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 Mitchell.
Is zoning published for Mitchell?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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