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Richton town, Mississippi: commercial real estate data.
Richton town is a Census town of 1,220 people across 2.29 square miles of land, in Perry County. Median household income is $35,057, 67.7 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 7 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $6.7 m.
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Richton
What Richton is
- Census place typetown
- Land area2.29 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land532 plus or minus 176
- County holding the largest share of its areaPerry 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.
Richton
How many people live in Richton
- Population1,220 plus or minus 403
- Median age44.5 plus or minus 13.0
- Population under 18285 plus or minus 158
- Share under 1823.4 percent plus or minus 10.4
- Population 65 and over368 plus or minus 140
- Share 65 and over30.2 percent
- Households467 plus or minus 144
- Family households286 plus or minus 130
- Share of households that are families61.2 percent plus or minus 20.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Richton
Income and work in Richton
- Median household income$35,057 plus or minus $7,376
- Per capita income$21,414 plus or minus $6,440
- Civilian labor force397 plus or minus 184
- Employed388 plus or minus 184
- Unemployed9 plus or minus 12
- Unemployment rate2.3 percent plus or minus 2.8
- Adults 25 and over857 plus or minus 230
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher87.6 percent plus or minus 33.0
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher22.8 percent plus or minus 9.1
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree6.2 percent plus or minus 4.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Richton
Housing in Richton
- Housing units573 plus or minus 151
- Occupied units467 plus or minus 144
- Vacant units106 plus or minus 49
- Vacancy rate18.5 percent plus or minus 7.0
- Owner occupied316 plus or minus 119
- Renter occupied151 plus or minus 81
- Ownership rate67.7 percent plus or minus 14.6
- Median owner-occupied home value$149,300 plus or minus $39,347
- Single family units377 plus or minus 133
- Share single family65.8 percent plus or minus 15.4
- Units in buildings of two or more147 plus or minus 85
- Share in buildings of two or more25.7 percent plus or minus 13.2
- Mobile homes49 plus or minus 35
- Median year structure built1973
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Richton
How Richton gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute382 plus or minus 183
- Commuting under 15 minutes187 plus or minus 134
- Share commuting under 15 minutes49.0 percent plus or minus 26.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more163 plus or minus 96
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more42.7 percent plus or minus 14.5
- Drove alone80.2 percent
- Carpooled3.9 percent plus or minus 4.3
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked1.3 percent plus or minus 3.8
- Worked from home1.5 percent plus or minus 2.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Richton
SBA loans in Richton (7(a))
- Approvals7
- Gross approval$6,714,800
- Average approval$959,257
- Median approval$824,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$2,852,000
- Largest approval$2,852,000
- Jobs supported20
- Jobs per approval2.9
- Loans with a final outcome4
- Paid in full4
- Charged off0
- Median term132 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more28.6 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders4
- Distinct industries by NAICS3
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.
Perry County, not Richton
Perry County context, not Richton figures
These are Perry County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Richton measurements.
- Establishments in Perry County132
- Employment at those establishments, Perry County1,629
- Covered employment, Perry County2,098
- Average annual pay, Perry County$47,298
- Average weekly wage, Perry County$910
- Housing units permitted, Perry County2
- Of those, single family, Perry County2
- County product, 2024, Perry County$439,677,000
- County product change over the prior year, Perry County6.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Perry County$44,239
Every figure in this section is published for Perry County as a whole and is not a measurement of Richton. 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.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- 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
Richton questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Richton, Mississippi?
1,220, in 467 households. Richton town covers 2.29 square miles of land, which is 532 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Richton in?
Perry 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 Richton?
$35,057. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $149,300. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Richton businesses?
7 7(a) approvals totalling $6.7 m, across 4 lenders, median approval $824,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Richton, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Richton borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Richton. 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 Richton figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Perry 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 Richton.
Is zoning published for Richton?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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