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Starkville city, Mississippi: commercial real estate data.
Starkville city is a Census city of 25,721 people across 27.76 square miles of land, in Oktibbeha County. Median household income is $42,125, 33.9 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 26 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $7.4 m.
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Starkville
What Starkville is
- Census place typecity
- Land area27.76 sq mi
- Water area0.15 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land926
- County holding the largest share of its areaOktibbeha 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.
Starkville
How many people live in Starkville
- Population25,721
- Median age26.0
- Population under 184,622
- Share under 1818.0 percent
- Population 65 and over2,917
- Share 65 and over11.3 percent
- Households12,004
- Family households5,141
- Share of households that are families42.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Starkville
Income and work in Starkville
- Median household income$42,125
- Per capita income$33,393
- Civilian labor force13,632
- Employed12,804
- Unemployed828 plus or minus 341
- Unemployment rate6.1 percent plus or minus 2.5
- Adults 25 and over13,727
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher92.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher50.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree26.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Starkville
Housing in Starkville
- Housing units14,407
- Occupied units12,004
- Vacant units2,403
- Vacancy rate16.7 percent
- Owner occupied4,075
- Renter occupied7,929
- Ownership rate33.9 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$299,900
- Median gross rent, monthly$916
- Annual rent as a share of median income26.1 percent
- Single family units6,783
- Share single family47.1 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more7,183
- Share in buildings of two or more49.9 percent
- Mobile homes441 plus or minus 189
- Median year structure built1990
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Starkville
How Starkville gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute11,362
- Commuting under 15 minutes5,366
- Share commuting under 15 minutes47.2 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more2,643
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more23.3 percent
- Drove alone84.2 percent
- Carpooled4.8 percent plus or minus 2.1
- Public transport1.1 percent plus or minus 1.1
- Walked1.1 percent plus or minus 0.6
- Worked from home7.1 percent plus or minus 3.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Starkville
SBA loans in Starkville (7(a))
- Approvals26
- Gross approval$7,439,000
- Average approval$286,115
- Median approval$200,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$582,000
- Largest approval$1,119,200
- Jobs supported335
- Jobs per approval12.9
- Loans with a final outcome4
- Paid in full4
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more19.2 percent
- Share to franchises3.8 percent
- Distinct lenders10
- Distinct industries by NAICS20
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 4 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.
Starkville
SBA loans in Starkville (504)
- Approvals5
- Gross approval$7,574,000
- Average approval$1,514,800
- Median approval$701,000
- Largest approval$4,157,000
- Jobs supported235
- Loans with a final outcome2
- Charged off1
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs1
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Oktibbeha County, not Starkville
Oktibbeha County context, not Starkville figures
These are Oktibbeha County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Starkville measurements.
- Establishments in Oktibbeha County978
- Employment at those establishments, Oktibbeha County12,997
- Covered employment, Oktibbeha County20,428
- Average annual pay, Oktibbeha County$47,613
- Average weekly wage, Oktibbeha County$916
- Housing units permitted, Oktibbeha County66
- Of those, single family, Oktibbeha County54
- County product, 2024, Oktibbeha County$2,638,965,000
- County product change over the prior year, Oktibbeha County14.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Oktibbeha County$56,614
Every figure in this section is published for Oktibbeha County as a whole and is not a measurement of Starkville. 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
Starkville questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Starkville, Mississippi?
25,721, in 12,004 households. Starkville city covers 27.76 square miles of land, which is 926 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Starkville in?
Oktibbeha 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 Starkville?
$42,125. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $299,900. Median gross rent is $916 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Starkville businesses?
26 7(a) approvals totalling $7.4 m, across 10 lenders, median approval $200,000, plus 5 504 approvals worth $7.6 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Starkville, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Starkville borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Starkville. only 4 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 Starkville figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Oktibbeha 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 Starkville.
Is zoning published for Starkville?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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