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Bruce town, Mississippi: commercial real estate data.
Bruce town is a Census town of 1,483 people across 2.44 square miles of land, in Calhoun County. Median household income is $26,923, 41.4 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $750,000.
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Bruce
What Bruce is
- Census place typetown
- Land area2.44 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land609
- County holding the largest share of its areaCalhoun 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.
Bruce
How many people live in Bruce
- Population1,483
- Median age41.1 plus or minus 9.6
- Population under 18353 plus or minus 111
- Share under 1823.8 percent plus or minus 6.3
- Population 65 and over272 plus or minus 88
- Share 65 and over18.3 percent plus or minus 5.1
- Households718
- Family households365 plus or minus 86
- Share of households that are families50.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bruce
Income and work in Bruce
- Median household income$26,923 plus or minus $11,471
- Per capita income$26,574 plus or minus $6,099
- Civilian labor force558 plus or minus 113
- Employed540
- Unemployed18 plus or minus 17
- Unemployment rate3.2 percent plus or minus 3.0
- Adults 25 and over1,055
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher84.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher13.7 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree2.6 percent plus or minus 2.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bruce
Housing in Bruce
- Housing units959
- Occupied units718
- Vacant units241 plus or minus 84
- Vacancy rate25.1 percent plus or minus 8.3
- Owner occupied297 plus or minus 71
- Renter occupied421 plus or minus 97
- Ownership rate41.4 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$71,700 plus or minus $31,679
- Median gross rent, monthly$643
- Annual rent as a share of median income28.7 percent plus or minus 12.5
- Single family units724
- Share single family75.5 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more201 plus or minus 80
- Share in buildings of two or more21.0 percent plus or minus 8.0
- Mobile homes34 plus or minus 28
- Median year structure built1974
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bruce
How Bruce gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute506 plus or minus 115
- Commuting under 15 minutes191 plus or minus 75
- Share commuting under 15 minutes37.7 percent plus or minus 12.1
- Commuting 30 minutes or more201 plus or minus 89
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more39.7 percent plus or minus 15.2
- Drove alone93.1 percent
- Carpooled1.3 percent plus or minus 2.6
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home5.6 percent plus or minus 4.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bruce
SBA loans in Bruce (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$750,000
- Average approval$750,000
- Median approval$750,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$750,000
- Largest approval$750,000
- Jobs supported23
- Jobs per approval23.0
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term126 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises100.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
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.
Calhoun County, not Bruce
Calhoun County context, not Bruce figures
These are Calhoun County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Bruce measurements.
- Establishments in Calhoun County224
- Employment at those establishments, Calhoun County1,702
- Covered employment, Calhoun County2,905
- Average annual pay, Calhoun County$38,736
- Average weekly wage, Calhoun County$745
- Housing units permitted, Calhoun County3
- Of those, single family, Calhoun County3
- County product, 2024, Calhoun County$378,407,000
- County product change over the prior year, Calhoun County-0.2 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Calhoun County$32,762
Every figure in this section is published for Calhoun County as a whole and is not a measurement of Bruce. 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
Bruce questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Bruce, Mississippi?
1,483, in 718 households. Bruce town covers 2.44 square miles of land, which is 609 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Bruce in?
Calhoun 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 Bruce?
$26,923. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $71,700. Median gross rent is $643 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Bruce businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $750,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $750,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Bruce, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Bruce borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Bruce. 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 Bruce figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Calhoun 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 Bruce.
Is zoning published for Bruce?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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