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Forest city, Mississippi: commercial real estate data.
Forest city is a Census city of 5,357 people across 13.08 square miles of land, in Scott County. Median household income is $49,724, 50.8 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 17 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $14.2 m.
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Forest
What Forest is
- Census place typecity
- Land area13.08 sq mi
- Water area0.02 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land410
- County holding the largest share of its areaScott 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.
Forest
How many people live in Forest
- Population5,357
- Median age36.0
- Population under 181,752 plus or minus 381
- Share under 1832.7 percent plus or minus 7.1
- Population 65 and over700 plus or minus 167
- Share 65 and over13.1 percent plus or minus 3.1
- Households1,682
- Family households1,203 plus or minus 241
- Share of households that are families71.5 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Forest
Income and work in Forest
- Median household income$49,724
- Per capita income$22,252
- Civilian labor force1,731 plus or minus 349
- Employed1,660
- Unemployed71 plus or minus 79
- Unemployment rate4.1 percent plus or minus 4.5
- Adults 25 and over3,248
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher73.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher19.9 percent plus or minus 6.4
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree10.5 percent plus or minus 4.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Forest
Housing in Forest
- Housing units1,983
- Occupied units1,682
- Vacant units301 plus or minus 168
- Vacancy rate15.2 percent plus or minus 8.2
- Owner occupied855 plus or minus 200
- Renter occupied827 plus or minus 188
- Ownership rate50.8 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$141,100
- Median gross rent, monthly$900 plus or minus $232
- Annual rent as a share of median income21.7 percent plus or minus 5.9
- Single family units1,159
- Share single family58.4 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more429 plus or minus 180
- Share in buildings of two or more21.6 percent plus or minus 8.6
- Mobile homes382 plus or minus 194
- Median year structure built1977
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Forest
How Forest gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,571 plus or minus 335
- Commuting under 15 minutes682 plus or minus 248
- Share commuting under 15 minutes43.4 percent plus or minus 12.8
- Commuting 30 minutes or more438 plus or minus 200
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more27.9 percent plus or minus 11.3
- Drove alone85.9 percent plus or minus 24.6
- Carpooled7.6 percent plus or minus 6.9
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked3.4 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Forest
SBA 7(a) lending to Forest borrowers
- Approvals17
- Gross approval$14,219,600
- Average approval$836,447
- Median approval$185,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$2,469,000
- Largest approval$3,000,000
- Jobs supported140
- Jobs per approval8.2
- Loans with a final outcome3
- Paid in full3
- Charged off0
- Median term180 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more23.5 percent
- Share to franchises11.8 percent
- Distinct lenders7
- Distinct industries by NAICS12
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 3 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.
Scott County, not Forest
Scott County context, not Forest figures
These are Scott County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Forest measurements.
- Establishments in Scott County458
- Employment at those establishments, Scott County11,161
- Covered employment, Scott County13,546
- Average annual pay, Scott County$45,025
- Average weekly wage, Scott County$866
- Housing units permitted, Scott County23
- Of those, single family, Scott County21
- County product, 2024, Scott County$1,446,492,000
- County product change over the prior year, Scott County11.5 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Scott County$38,852
Every figure in this section is published for Scott County as a whole and is not a measurement of Forest. 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
Forest questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Forest, Mississippi?
5,357, in 1,682 households. Forest city covers 13.08 square miles of land, which is 410 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Forest in?
Scott 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 Forest?
$49,724. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $141,100. Median gross rent is $900 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Forest businesses?
17 7(a) approvals totalling $14.2 m, across 7 lenders, median approval $185,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Forest, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Forest borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Forest. only 3 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 Forest figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Scott 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 Forest.
Is zoning published for Forest?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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