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Picayune city, Mississippi: commercial real estate data.
Picayune city is a Census city of 11,900 people across 18.04 square miles of land, in Pearl River County. Median household income is $41,213, 58.8 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 4 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.4 m.
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Picayune
What Picayune is
- Census place typecity
- Land area18.04 sq mi
- Water area0.08 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land660
- County holding the largest share of its areaPearl River 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.
Picayune
How many people live in Picayune
- Population11,900
- Median age41.8
- Population under 182,829
- Share under 1823.8 percent
- Population 65 and over2,353
- Share 65 and over19.8 percent
- Households4,544
- Family households2,745
- Share of households that are families60.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Picayune
Income and work in Picayune
- Median household income$41,213
- Per capita income$25,878
- Civilian labor force5,226
- Employed4,910
- Unemployed316 plus or minus 206
- Unemployment rate6.0 percent plus or minus 3.9
- Adults 25 and over8,166
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher87.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher16.2 percent plus or minus 3.9
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.4 percent plus or minus 2.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Picayune
Housing in Picayune
- Housing units5,574
- Occupied units4,544
- Vacant units1,030 plus or minus 283
- Vacancy rate18.5 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Owner occupied2,672
- Renter occupied1,872
- Ownership rate58.8 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$157,100
- Median gross rent, monthly$931
- Annual rent as a share of median income27.1 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Single family units4,000
- Share single family71.8 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more1,361 plus or minus 327
- Share in buildings of two or more24.4 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Mobile homes213 plus or minus 154
- Median year structure built1976
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Picayune
How Picayune gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute4,351
- Commuting under 15 minutes1,497 plus or minus 321
- Share commuting under 15 minutes34.4 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more1,933 plus or minus 393
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more44.4 percent
- Drove alone77.7 percent
- Carpooled11.4 percent plus or minus 4.1
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked2.7 percent plus or minus 2.1
- Worked from home5.9 percent plus or minus 2.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Picayune
SBA loans in Picayune (7(a))
- Approvals4
- Gross approval$1,429,000
- Average approval$357,250
- Median approval$359,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$500,000
- Largest approval$500,000
- Jobs supported56
- Jobs per approval14.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term123 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises75.0 percent
- Distinct lenders3
- Distinct industries by NAICS4
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.
Pearl River County, not Picayune
Pearl River County context, not Picayune figures
These are Pearl River County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Picayune measurements.
- Establishments in Pearl River County894
- Employment at those establishments, Pearl River County8,948
- Covered employment, Pearl River County11,629
- Average annual pay, Pearl River County$41,138
- Average weekly wage, Pearl River County$791
- Housing units permitted, Pearl River County330
- Of those, single family, Pearl River County322
- County product, 2024, Pearl River County$1,529,950,000
- County product change over the prior year, Pearl River County4.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Pearl River County$53,892
Every figure in this section is published for Pearl River County as a whole and is not a measurement of Picayune. 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
Picayune questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Picayune, Mississippi?
11,900, in 4,544 households. Picayune city covers 18.04 square miles of land, which is 660 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Picayune in?
Pearl River 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 Picayune?
$41,213. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $157,100. Median gross rent is $931 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Picayune businesses?
4 7(a) approvals totalling $1.4 m, across 3 lenders, median approval $359,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Picayune, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Picayune borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Picayune. 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 Picayune figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Pearl River 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 Picayune.
Is zoning published for Picayune?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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