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Brookhaven city, Mississippi: commercial real estate data.
Brookhaven city is a Census city of 11,650 people across 21.64 square miles of land, in Lincoln County. Median household income is $36,685, 53.7 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 20 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $12.2 m.
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Brookhaven
What Brookhaven is
- Census place typecity
- Land area21.64 sq mi
- Water area0.09 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land538
- County holding the largest share of its areaLincoln 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.
Brookhaven
How many people live in Brookhaven
- Population11,650
- Median age42.5
- Population under 182,518
- Share under 1821.6 percent
- Population 65 and over2,261
- Share 65 and over19.4 percent
- Households4,640
- Family households2,752
- Share of households that are families59.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brookhaven
Income and work in Brookhaven
- Median household income$36,685 plus or minus $8,179
- Per capita income$26,706
- Civilian labor force4,614
- Employed4,459
- Unemployed155 plus or minus 98
- Unemployment rate3.4 percent plus or minus 2.1
- Adults 25 and over8,530
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher85.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher21.3 percent plus or minus 4.3
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree7.6 percent plus or minus 2.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brookhaven
Housing in Brookhaven
- Housing units5,695
- Occupied units4,640
- Vacant units1,055 plus or minus 288
- Vacancy rate18.5 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Owner occupied2,493
- Renter occupied2,147
- Ownership rate53.7 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$121,900 plus or minus $37,907
- Median gross rent, monthly$740
- Annual rent as a share of median income24.2 percent plus or minus 6.4
- Single family units4,008
- Share single family70.4 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more1,088 plus or minus 302
- Share in buildings of two or more19.1 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Mobile homes599 plus or minus 223
- Median year structure built1975
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brookhaven
How Brookhaven gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute4,229
- Commuting under 15 minutes2,676
- Share commuting under 15 minutes63.3 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more818 plus or minus 242
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more19.3 percent plus or minus 5.4
- Drove alone88.2 percent
- Carpooled6.5 percent plus or minus 2.9
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked3.0 percent plus or minus 3.1
- Worked from home1.7 percent plus or minus 1.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brookhaven
SBA loans in Brookhaven (7(a))
- Approvals20
- Gross approval$12,155,600
- Average approval$607,780
- Median approval$136,100
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,780,000
- Largest approval$5,000,000
- Jobs supported85
- Jobs per approval4.3
- Loans with a final outcome5
- Paid in full4
- Charged off1
- Median term132 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more25.0 percent
- Share to franchises10.0 percent
- Distinct lenders6
- Distinct industries by NAICS15
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 5 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.
Lincoln County, not Brookhaven
Lincoln County context, not Brookhaven figures
These are Lincoln County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Brookhaven measurements.
- Establishments in Lincoln County810
- Employment at those establishments, Lincoln County11,675
- Covered employment, Lincoln County12,767
- Average annual pay, Lincoln County$46,539
- Average weekly wage, Lincoln County$895
- Housing units permitted, Lincoln County10
- Of those, single family, Lincoln County10
- County product, 2024, Lincoln County$1,634,536,000
- County product change over the prior year, Lincoln County5.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Lincoln County$44,577
Every figure in this section is published for Lincoln County as a whole and is not a measurement of Brookhaven. 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
Brookhaven questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Brookhaven, Mississippi?
11,650, in 4,640 households. Brookhaven city covers 21.64 square miles of land, which is 538 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Brookhaven in?
Lincoln 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 Brookhaven?
$36,685. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $121,900. Median gross rent is $740 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Brookhaven businesses?
20 7(a) approvals totalling $12.2 m, across 6 lenders, median approval $136,100. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Brookhaven, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Brookhaven borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Brookhaven. only 5 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 Brookhaven figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Lincoln 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 Brookhaven.
Is zoning published for Brookhaven?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.