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West town, Mississippi: commercial real estate data.
West town is a Census town of 175 people across 0.56 square miles of land, in Holmes County. Median household income is $88,977, 78.4 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $150,000.
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This is a small place, and the figures below carry wide margins.
The American Community Survey reaches West through a sample, not a count, and in a place this size that sample is thin. The population estimate here is 175 with a margin of error of plus or minus 126, which is 72.0 percent of the estimate itself. Every figure whose margin reaches 20 percent is printed with that margin beside it, so you can see the width of each one rather than having to assume it.
Nothing has been removed or adjusted. These are the published federal estimates, shown with the uncertainty the Census publishes alongside them.
West
What West is
- Census place typetown
- Land area0.56 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land314 plus or minus 226
- County holding the largest share of its areaHolmes 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.
West
How many people live in West
- Population175 plus or minus 126
- Median age27.7 plus or minus 22.1
- Population under 189 plus or minus 20
- Share under 185.1 percent plus or minus 10.5
- Population 65 and over16 plus or minus 17
- Share 65 and over9.1 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Households51 plus or minus 31
- Family households45 plus or minus 31
- Share of households that are families88.2 percent plus or minus 28.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
West
Income and work in West
- Median household income$88,977 plus or minus $33,055
- Per capita income$33,196
- Civilian labor force146 plus or minus 123
- Employed146 plus or minus 123
- Unemployed0
- Unemployment rate0.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over141 plus or minus 99
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher75.9 percent plus or minus 66.7
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher16.3 percent plus or minus 15.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree2.8 percent plus or minus 10.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
West
Housing in West
- Housing units63 plus or minus 32
- Occupied units51 plus or minus 31
- Vacant units12 plus or minus 12
- Vacancy rate19.0 percent plus or minus 16.4
- Owner occupied40 plus or minus 29
- Renter occupied11 plus or minus 13
- Ownership rate78.4 percent plus or minus 31.0
- Median owner-occupied home value$82,900 plus or minus $69,693
- Single family units59 plus or minus 34
- Share single family93.7 percent plus or minus 25.5
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes4 plus or minus 7
- Median year structure built1945
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
West
How West gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute137 plus or minus 120
- Commuting under 15 minutes3 plus or minus 15
- Share commuting under 15 minutes2.2 percent plus or minus 10.6
- Commuting 30 minutes or more118 plus or minus 101
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more86.1 percent plus or minus 105.3
- Drove alone89.1 percent plus or minus 34.8
- Carpooled8.0 percent plus or minus 12.8
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
West
SBA 7(a) lending to West borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$150,000
- Average approval$150,000
- Median approval$150,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$150,000
- Largest approval$150,000
- Jobs supported3
- Jobs per approval3.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 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.
Holmes County, not West
Holmes County context, not West figures
These are Holmes County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as West measurements.
- Establishments in Holmes County208
- Employment at those establishments, Holmes County1,857
- Covered employment, Holmes County2,999
- Average annual pay, Holmes County$41,381
- Average weekly wage, Holmes County$796
- Housing units permitted, Holmes County19
- Of those, single family, Holmes County16
- County product, 2024, Holmes County$334,187,000
- County product change over the prior year, Holmes County-1.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Holmes County$33,127
Every figure in this section is published for Holmes County as a whole and is not a measurement of West. 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.
- 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
West questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in West, Mississippi?
175, in 51 households. West town covers 0.56 square miles of land, which is 314 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is West in?
Holmes 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 West?
$88,977. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $82,900. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to West businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $150,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $150,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in West, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to West borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for West. only 0 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 West figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Holmes 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 West.
Is zoning published for West?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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