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Merigold town, Mississippi: commercial real estate data.
Merigold town is a Census town of 484 people across 0.97 square miles of land, in Bolivar County. Median household income is $51,250, 94.9 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Merigold
What Merigold is
- Census place typetown
- Land area0.97 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land500 plus or minus 210
- County holding the largest share of its areaBolivar 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.
Merigold
How many people live in Merigold
- Population484 plus or minus 203
- Median age28.7 plus or minus 14.1
- Population under 1887 plus or minus 63
- Share under 1818.0 percent plus or minus 10.6
- Population 65 and over78 plus or minus 37
- Share 65 and over16.1 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Households137 plus or minus 55
- Family households111 plus or minus 50
- Share of households that are families81.0 percent plus or minus 16.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Merigold
Income and work in Merigold
- Median household income$51,250 plus or minus $31,767
- Per capita income$23,104 plus or minus $5,316
- Civilian labor force264 plus or minus 128
- Employed264 plus or minus 128
- Unemployed0
- Unemployment rate0.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over392 plus or minus 157
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher92.3 percent plus or minus 52.0
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher31.1 percent plus or minus 21.3
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree6.6 percent plus or minus 5.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Merigold
Housing in Merigold
- Housing units160 plus or minus 56
- Occupied units137 plus or minus 55
- Vacant units23 plus or minus 15
- Vacancy rate14.4 percent plus or minus 7.9
- Owner occupied130 plus or minus 53
- Renter occupied7 plus or minus 8
- Ownership rate94.9 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$138,300 plus or minus $59,507
- Single family units147 plus or minus 56
- Share single family91.9 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more4 plus or minus 16
- Share in buildings of two or more2.5 percent plus or minus 9.7
- Mobile homes9 plus or minus 13
- Median year structure built1966
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Merigold
How Merigold gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute169 plus or minus 68
- Commuting under 15 minutes37 plus or minus 24
- Share commuting under 15 minutes21.9 percent plus or minus 11.1
- Commuting 30 minutes or more43 plus or minus 30
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more25.4 percent plus or minus 14.9
- Drove alone90.2 percent
- Carpooled4.0 percent plus or minus 4.3
- Public transport2.9 percent plus or minus 4.4
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home2.9 percent plus or minus 6.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bolivar County, not Merigold
Bolivar County context, not Merigold figures
These are Bolivar County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Merigold measurements.
- Establishments in Bolivar County709
- Employment at those establishments, Bolivar County8,073
- Covered employment, Bolivar County10,569
- Average annual pay, Bolivar County$44,457
- Average weekly wage, Bolivar County$855
- Housing units permitted, Bolivar County15
- Of those, single family, Bolivar County15
- County product, 2024, Bolivar County$1,385,537,000
- County product change over the prior year, Bolivar County-2.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Bolivar County$38,140
Every figure in this section is published for Bolivar County as a whole and is not a measurement of Merigold. 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.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- 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
Merigold questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Merigold, Mississippi?
484, in 137 households. Merigold town covers 0.97 square miles of land, which is 500 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Merigold in?
Bolivar 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 Merigold?
$51,250. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $138,300. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Merigold figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Bolivar 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 Merigold.
Is zoning published for Merigold?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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