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Purvis city, Mississippi: commercial real estate data.
Purvis city is a Census city of 1,914 people across 4.19 square miles of land, in Lamar County. Median household income is $45,667, 63.7 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 6 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.9 m.
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Purvis
What Purvis is
- Census place typecity
- Land area4.19 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land457 plus or minus 101
- County holding the largest share of its areaLamar 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.
Purvis
How many people live in Purvis
- Population1,914 plus or minus 421
- Median age31.6
- Population under 18565 plus or minus 159
- Share under 1829.5 percent
- Population 65 and over335 plus or minus 97
- Share 65 and over17.5 percent
- Households670 plus or minus 138
- Family households451 plus or minus 125
- Share of households that are families67.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Purvis
Income and work in Purvis
- Median household income$45,667 plus or minus $10,435
- Per capita income$31,752 plus or minus $9,789
- Civilian labor force781 plus or minus 195
- Employed767 plus or minus 197
- Unemployed14 plus or minus 13
- Unemployment rate1.8 percent plus or minus 1.6
- Adults 25 and over1,187 plus or minus 278
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher84.2 percent plus or minus 25.7
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher22.4 percent plus or minus 6.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree6.1 percent plus or minus 3.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Purvis
Housing in Purvis
- Housing units781 plus or minus 159
- Occupied units670 plus or minus 138
- Vacant units111 plus or minus 67
- Vacancy rate14.2 percent plus or minus 8.1
- Owner occupied427 plus or minus 98
- Renter occupied243 plus or minus 93
- Ownership rate63.7 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$168,100 plus or minus $44,356
- Median gross rent, monthly$939
- Annual rent as a share of median income24.7 percent plus or minus 6.4
- Single family units653 plus or minus 136
- Share single family83.6 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more98 plus or minus 65
- Share in buildings of two or more12.5 percent plus or minus 8.0
- Mobile homes30 plus or minus 28
- Median year structure built1979
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Purvis
How Purvis gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute758 plus or minus 194
- Commuting under 15 minutes143 plus or minus 74
- Share commuting under 15 minutes18.9 percent plus or minus 8.5
- Commuting 30 minutes or more315 plus or minus 146
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more41.6 percent plus or minus 16.1
- Drove alone95.7 percent plus or minus 34.8
- Carpooled2.4 percent plus or minus 2.8
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked1.2 percent plus or minus 1.9
- Worked from home0.8 percent plus or minus 1.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Purvis
SBA loans in Purvis (7(a))
- Approvals6
- Gross approval$1,939,500
- Average approval$323,250
- Median approval$186,500
- Ninetieth percentile approval$898,000
- Largest approval$898,000
- Jobs supported89
- Jobs per approval14.8
- Loans with a final outcome2
- Paid in full2
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises16.7 percent
- Distinct lenders5
- Distinct industries by NAICS5
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.
Lamar County, not Purvis
Lamar County context, not Purvis figures
These are Lamar County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Purvis measurements.
- Establishments in Lamar County1,505
- Employment at those establishments, Lamar County19,611
- Covered employment, Lamar County20,129
- Average annual pay, Lamar County$44,276
- Average weekly wage, Lamar County$851
- Housing units permitted, Lamar County45
- Of those, single family, Lamar County45
- County product, 2024, Lamar County$2,776,896,000
- County product change over the prior year, Lamar County4.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Lamar County$54,886
Every figure in this section is published for Lamar County as a whole and is not a measurement of Purvis. 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
Purvis questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Purvis, Mississippi?
1,914, in 670 households. Purvis city covers 4.19 square miles of land, which is 457 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Purvis in?
Lamar 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 Purvis?
$45,667. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $168,100. Median gross rent is $939 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Purvis businesses?
6 7(a) approvals totalling $1.9 m, across 5 lenders, median approval $186,500. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Purvis, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Purvis borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Purvis. 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 Purvis figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Lamar 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 Purvis.
Is zoning published for Purvis?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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