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Murchison city, Texas: commercial real estate data.
Murchison city is a Census city of 568 people across 1.58 square miles of land, in Henderson County. Median household income is $56,908, 66.1 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $2.5 m.
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Murchison
What Murchison is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.58 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land360 plus or minus 139
- County holding the largest share of its areaHenderson 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.
Murchison
How many people live in Murchison
- Population568 plus or minus 220
- Median age39.0 plus or minus 12.6
- Population under 18117 plus or minus 53
- Share under 1820.6 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Population 65 and over155 plus or minus 57
- Share 65 and over27.3 percent plus or minus 14.6
- Households221 plus or minus 78
- Family households177 plus or minus 71
- Share of households that are families80.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Murchison
Income and work in Murchison
- Median household income$56,908
- Per capita income$31,233 plus or minus $8,120
- Civilian labor force253 plus or minus 118
- Employed229 plus or minus 106
- Unemployed24 plus or minus 26
- Unemployment rate9.5 percent plus or minus 9.3
- Adults 25 and over406 plus or minus 150
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher87.4 percent plus or minus 42.1
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher11.1 percent plus or minus 7.3
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree2.0 percent plus or minus 4.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Murchison
Housing in Murchison
- Housing units251 plus or minus 82
- Occupied units221 plus or minus 78
- Vacant units30 plus or minus 26
- Vacancy rate12.0 percent plus or minus 9.6
- Owner occupied146 plus or minus 48
- Renter occupied75 plus or minus 52
- Ownership rate66.1 percent plus or minus 31.9
- Median owner-occupied home value$162,500
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,097 plus or minus $426
- Annual rent as a share of median income23.1 percent plus or minus 9.9
- Single family units200 plus or minus 70
- Share single family79.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more19 plus or minus 26
- Share in buildings of two or more7.6 percent plus or minus 10.0
- Mobile homes32 plus or minus 23
- Median year structure built1974
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Murchison
How Murchison gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute207 plus or minus 99
- Commuting under 15 minutes57 plus or minus 38
- Share commuting under 15 minutes27.5 percent plus or minus 12.8
- Commuting 30 minutes or more106 plus or minus 54
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more51.2 percent
- Drove alone80.2 percent plus or minus 52.1
- Carpooled15.2 percent plus or minus 11.9
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home4.6 percent plus or minus 7.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Murchison
SBA loans in Murchison (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$2,550,000
- Average approval$2,550,000
- Median approval$2,550,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$2,550,000
- Largest approval$2,550,000
- Jobs supported3
- Jobs per approval3.0
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more100.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
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.
Murchison
Flood risk in Murchison
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number480330
- Currently effective map date04/05/10(M)
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Henderson County, not Murchison
Henderson County context, not Murchison figures
These are Henderson County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Murchison measurements.
- Establishments in Henderson County1,521
- Employment at those establishments, Henderson County15,622
- Covered employment, Henderson County19,534
- Average annual pay, Henderson County$48,745
- Average weekly wage, Henderson County$937
- Housing units permitted, Henderson County274
- Of those, single family, Henderson County258
- County product, 2024, Henderson County$2,783,746,000
- County product change over the prior year, Henderson County6.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Henderson County$68,992
Every figure in this section is published for Henderson County as a whole and is not a measurement of Murchison. 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.
- 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
Murchison questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Murchison, Texas?
568, in 221 households. Murchison city covers 1.58 square miles of land, which is 360 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Murchison in?
Henderson 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 Murchison?
$56,908. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $162,500. Median gross rent is $1,097 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Murchison businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $2.5 m, across 1 lenders, median approval $2,550,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Murchison, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Murchison borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Murchison. 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.
Is Murchison in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Murchison appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 480330, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Murchison figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Henderson 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 Murchison.
Is zoning published for Murchison?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.