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Decatur town, Tennessee: commercial real estate data.
Decatur town is a Census town of 1,898 people across 3.80 square miles of land, in Meigs County. Median household income is $42,578, 57.7 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 2 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $4.8 m.
66 sourced place values · tier FULL · 7 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
Decatur
What Decatur is
- Census place typetown
- Land area3.8 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land500 plus or minus 123
- County holding the largest share of its areaMeigs 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.
Decatur
How many people live in Decatur
- Population1,898 plus or minus 466
- Median age42.4
- Population under 18388 plus or minus 127
- Share under 1820.4 percent plus or minus 4.4
- Population 65 and over435 plus or minus 111
- Share 65 and over22.9 percent
- Households719 plus or minus 159
- Family households383 plus or minus 120
- Share of households that are families53.3 percent plus or minus 11.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Decatur
Income and work in Decatur
- Median household income$42,578 plus or minus $16,858
- Per capita income$24,771 plus or minus $5,997
- Civilian labor force754 plus or minus 213
- Employed580 plus or minus 157
- Unemployed174 plus or minus 109
- Unemployment rate23.1 percent plus or minus 12.9
- Adults 25 and over1,283 plus or minus 307
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher81.6 percent plus or minus 24.7
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher11.1 percent plus or minus 3.1
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.7 percent plus or minus 2.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Decatur
Housing in Decatur
- Housing units778 plus or minus 164
- Occupied units719 plus or minus 159
- Vacant units59 plus or minus 33
- Vacancy rate7.6 percent plus or minus 3.9
- Owner occupied415 plus or minus 120
- Renter occupied304 plus or minus 96
- Ownership rate57.7 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$220,900
- Median gross rent, monthly$847
- Annual rent as a share of median income23.9 percent plus or minus 9.6
- Single family units500 plus or minus 137
- Share single family64.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more72 plus or minus 36
- Share in buildings of two or more9.3 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Mobile homes200 plus or minus 86
- Median year structure built1979
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Decatur
How Decatur gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute558 plus or minus 153
- Commuting under 15 minutes188 plus or minus 72
- Share commuting under 15 minutes33.7 percent plus or minus 9.1
- Commuting 30 minutes or more147 plus or minus 57
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more26.3 percent plus or minus 7.3
- Drove alone81.8 percent
- Carpooled6.1 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Public transport0.3 percent plus or minus 0.7
- Walked5.9 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Worked from home3.3 percent plus or minus 3.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Decatur
SBA loans in Decatur (7(a))
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$4,786,200
- Average approval$2,393,100
- Median approval$4,211,200
- Ninetieth percentile approval$4,211,200
- Largest approval$4,211,200
- Jobs supported23
- Jobs per approval11.5
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term192 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders2
- Distinct industries by NAICS2
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 1 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.
Meigs County, not Decatur
Meigs County context, not Decatur figures
These are Meigs County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Decatur measurements.
- Establishments in Meigs County109
- Employment at those establishments, Meigs County1,839
- Covered employment, Meigs County1,933
- Average annual pay, Meigs County$55,796
- Average weekly wage, Meigs County$1,073
- Housing units permitted, Meigs County94
- Of those, single family, Meigs County94
- County product, 2024, Meigs County$352,749,000
- County product change over the prior year, Meigs County4.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Meigs County$69,993
Every figure in this section is published for Meigs County as a whole and is not a measurement of Decatur. 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
Decatur questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Decatur, Tennessee?
1,898, in 719 households. Decatur town covers 3.80 square miles of land, which is 500 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Decatur in?
Meigs 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 Decatur?
$42,578. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $220,900. Median gross rent is $847 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Decatur businesses?
2 7(a) approvals totalling $4.8 m, across 2 lenders, median approval $4,211,200. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Decatur, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Decatur borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Decatur. only 1 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 Decatur figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Meigs 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 Decatur.
Is zoning published for Decatur?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.