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Prentiss town, Mississippi: commercial real estate data.
Prentiss town is a Census town of 938 people across 2.99 square miles of land, in Jefferson Davis County. Median household income is $30,667, 63.9 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 9 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.9 m.
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Prentiss
What Prentiss is
- Census place typetown
- Land area2.99 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land314 plus or minus 81
- County holding the largest share of its areaJefferson Davis 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.
Prentiss
How many people live in Prentiss
- Population938 plus or minus 241
- Median age47.0
- Population under 18141 plus or minus 57
- Share under 1815.0 percent plus or minus 4.7
- Population 65 and over224 plus or minus 78
- Share 65 and over23.9 percent plus or minus 5.6
- Households366 plus or minus 98
- Family households200 plus or minus 68
- Share of households that are families54.6 percent plus or minus 11.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Prentiss
Income and work in Prentiss
- Median household income$30,667 plus or minus $6,819
- Per capita income$20,754 plus or minus $4,628
- Civilian labor force318 plus or minus 128
- Employed309 plus or minus 126
- Unemployed9 plus or minus 12
- Unemployment rate2.8 percent plus or minus 3.6
- Adults 25 and over716 plus or minus 171
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher83.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher14.2 percent plus or minus 6.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree5.0 percent plus or minus 4.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Prentiss
Housing in Prentiss
- Housing units471 plus or minus 108
- Occupied units366 plus or minus 98
- Vacant units105 plus or minus 36
- Vacancy rate22.3 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Owner occupied234 plus or minus 84
- Renter occupied132 plus or minus 58
- Ownership rate63.9 percent plus or minus 15.3
- Median owner-occupied home value$76,100
- Median gross rent, monthly$822
- Annual rent as a share of median income32.2 percent plus or minus 7.7
- Single family units424 plus or minus 107
- Share single family90.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more44 plus or minus 30
- Share in buildings of two or more9.3 percent plus or minus 5.9
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1965
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Prentiss
How Prentiss gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute291 plus or minus 116
- Commuting under 15 minutes88 plus or minus 48
- Share commuting under 15 minutes30.2 percent plus or minus 11.4
- Commuting 30 minutes or more115 plus or minus 73
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more39.5 percent plus or minus 19.7
- Drove alone78.9 percent
- Carpooled17.4 percent plus or minus 23.9
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.7 percent plus or minus 1.7
- Worked from home2.3 percent plus or minus 3.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Prentiss
SBA 7(a) lending to Prentiss borrowers
- Approvals9
- Gross approval$1,854,700
- Average approval$206,078
- Median approval$157,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$533,000
- Largest approval$533,000
- Jobs supported28
- Jobs per approval3.1
- Loans with a final outcome2
- Paid in full2
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more11.1 percent
- Share to franchises11.1 percent
- Distinct lenders5
- Distinct industries by NAICS6
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 2 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.
Jefferson Davis County, not Prentiss
Jefferson Davis County context, not Prentiss figures
These are Jefferson Davis County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Prentiss measurements.
- Establishments in Jefferson Davis County123
- Employment at those establishments, Jefferson Davis County1,531
- Covered employment, Jefferson Davis County1,639
- Average annual pay, Jefferson Davis County$45,939
- Average weekly wage, Jefferson Davis County$883
- Housing units permitted, Jefferson Davis County0
- Of those, single family, Jefferson Davis County0
- County product, 2024, Jefferson Davis County$263,771,000
- County product change over the prior year, Jefferson Davis County23.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Jefferson Davis County$38,996
Every figure in this section is published for Jefferson Davis County as a whole and is not a measurement of Prentiss. 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
Prentiss questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Prentiss, Mississippi?
938, in 366 households. Prentiss town covers 2.99 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 Prentiss in?
Jefferson Davis 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 Prentiss?
$30,667. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $76,100. Median gross rent is $822 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Prentiss businesses?
9 7(a) approvals totalling $1.9 m, across 5 lenders, median approval $157,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Prentiss, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Prentiss borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Prentiss. only 2 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 Prentiss figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Jefferson Davis 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 Prentiss.
Is zoning published for Prentiss?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.