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Brandon city, Mississippi: commercial real estate data.
Brandon city is a Census city of 25,542 people across 25.66 square miles of land, in Rankin County. Median household income is $92,783, 78.3 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 57 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $25.9 m.
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Brandon
What Brandon is
- Census place typecity
- Land area25.66 sq mi
- Water area0.09 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land995
- County holding the largest share of its areaRankin 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.
Brandon
How many people live in Brandon
- Population25,542
- Median age40.6
- Population under 186,438
- Share under 1825.2 percent
- Population 65 and over4,500
- Share 65 and over17.6 percent
- Households9,269
- Family households6,548
- Share of households that are families70.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brandon
Income and work in Brandon
- Median household income$92,783
- Per capita income$40,305
- Civilian labor force12,643
- Employed11,981
- Unemployed662 plus or minus 260
- Unemployment rate5.2 percent plus or minus 2.0
- Adults 25 and over17,153
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher96.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher41.3 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree14.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brandon
Housing in Brandon
- Housing units9,699
- Occupied units9,269
- Vacant units430 plus or minus 168
- Vacancy rate4.4 percent plus or minus 1.7
- Owner occupied7,262
- Renter occupied2,007
- Ownership rate78.3 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$278,900
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,382
- Annual rent as a share of median income17.9 percent
- Single family units8,024
- Share single family82.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more1,587 plus or minus 348
- Share in buildings of two or more16.4 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Mobile homes88 plus or minus 87
- Median year structure built1996
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brandon
How Brandon gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute11,144
- Commuting under 15 minutes2,048
- Share commuting under 15 minutes18.4 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more3,935
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more35.3 percent
- Drove alone82.9 percent
- Carpooled8.9 percent plus or minus 2.6
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.5 percent plus or minus 0.9
- Worked from home7.2 percent plus or minus 1.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brandon
SBA 7(a) lending to Brandon borrowers
- Approvals57
- Gross approval$25,926,800
- Average approval$454,856
- Median approval$148,400
- Ninetieth percentile approval$984,400
- Largest approval$5,000,000
- Jobs supported507
- Jobs per approval8.9
- Loans with a final outcome8
- Paid in full5
- Charged off3
- Median term119 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more14.0 percent
- Share to franchises14.0 percent
- Distinct lenders16
- Distinct industries by NAICS39
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 8 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.
Rankin County, not Brandon
Rankin County context, not Brandon figures
These are Rankin County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Brandon measurements.
- Establishments in Rankin County4,083
- Employment at those establishments, Rankin County62,811
- Covered employment, Rankin County67,059
- Average annual pay, Rankin County$52,290
- Average weekly wage, Rankin County$1,006
- Housing units permitted, Rankin County586
- Of those, single family, Rankin County586
- County product, 2024, Rankin County$10,248,160,000
- County product change over the prior year, Rankin County4.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Rankin County$55,724
Every figure in this section is published for Rankin County as a whole and is not a measurement of Brandon. 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
Brandon questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Brandon, Mississippi?
25,542, in 9,269 households. Brandon city covers 25.66 square miles of land, which is 995 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Brandon in?
Rankin 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 Brandon?
$92,783. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $278,900. Median gross rent is $1,382 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Brandon businesses?
57 7(a) approvals totalling $25.9 m, across 16 lenders, median approval $148,400. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Brandon, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Brandon borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Brandon. only 8 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 Brandon figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Rankin 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 Brandon.
Is zoning published for Brandon?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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