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Indianola city, Mississippi: commercial real estate data.
Indianola city is a Census city of 9,062 people across 8.57 square miles of land, in Sunflower County. Median household income is $41,708, 51.8 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 4 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $633,100.
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Indianola
What Indianola is
- Census place typecity
- Land area8.57 sq mi
- Water area0.09 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,057
- County holding the largest share of its areaSunflower 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.
Indianola
How many people live in Indianola
- Population9,062
- Median age35.7
- Population under 182,333
- Share under 1825.7 percent
- Population 65 and over1,504
- Share 65 and over16.6 percent
- Households3,493
- Family households2,301
- Share of households that are families65.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Indianola
Income and work in Indianola
- Median household income$41,708
- Per capita income$22,102
- Civilian labor force4,209
- Employed3,659
- Unemployed550 plus or minus 190
- Unemployment rate13.1 percent plus or minus 4.4
- Adults 25 and over6,009
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher80.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher21.0 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree10.6 percent plus or minus 3.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Indianola
- Housing units4,060
- Occupied units3,493
- Vacant units567 plus or minus 161
- Vacancy rate14.0 percent plus or minus 3.9
- Owner occupied1,808
- Renter occupied1,685
- Ownership rate51.8 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$108,800
- Median gross rent, monthly$720 plus or minus $201
- Annual rent as a share of median income20.7 percent plus or minus 6.9
- Single family units3,257
- Share single family80.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more762 plus or minus 251
- Share in buildings of two or more18.8 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Mobile homes41 plus or minus 32
- Median year structure built1971
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Indianola gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute3,453
- Commuting under 15 minutes1,871
- Share commuting under 15 minutes54.2 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more909 plus or minus 281
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more26.3 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Drove alone81.0 percent
- Carpooled11.7 percent plus or minus 5.4
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.5 percent plus or minus 0.7
- Worked from home5.2 percent plus or minus 4.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Indianola
SBA 7(a) lending to Indianola borrowers
- Approvals4
- Gross approval$633,100
- Average approval$158,275
- Median approval$200,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$270,100
- Largest approval$270,100
- Jobs supported21
- Jobs per approval5.3
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more25.0 percent
- Share to franchises25.0 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.
Sunflower County, not Indianola
Sunflower County context, not Indianola figures
These are Sunflower County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Indianola measurements.
- Establishments in Sunflower County406
- Employment at those establishments, Sunflower County6,028
- Covered employment, Sunflower County8,222
- Average annual pay, Sunflower County$41,018
- Average weekly wage, Sunflower County$789
- Housing units permitted, Sunflower County6
- Of those, single family, Sunflower County6
- County product, 2024, Sunflower County$862,676,000
- County product change over the prior year, Sunflower County-8.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Sunflower County$28,201
Every figure in this section is published for Sunflower County as a whole and is not a measurement of Indianola. 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
Indianola questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Indianola, Mississippi?
9,062, in 3,493 households. Indianola city covers 8.57 square miles of land, which is 1,057 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Indianola in?
Sunflower 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 Indianola?
$41,708. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $108,800. Median gross rent is $720 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Indianola businesses?
4 7(a) approvals totalling $633,100, across 3 lenders, median approval $200,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Indianola, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Indianola borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Indianola. 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 Indianola figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Sunflower 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 Indianola.
Is zoning published for Indianola?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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