Feasibility Study Data for the Jackson, MS Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about lending in the Jackson, MS Metro Area, every asset class together, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

Jackson, MS in the national count, 1,025 loans

SBA files rank Jackson 95 of 928 by loans: 1,025 approvals in FY2017 to FY2026, $452.5 million gross. Median loan: $150,000 in Jackson, 0.72x the national median. That makes Jackson a smaller-ticket market. In Jackson, the middle half of in Jackson loans runs from $62,600 to $424,000. Because $62,600 and $424,000 frame the middle half, a Jackson borrower should weigh any Jackson request against $150,000.

Program mix in Jackson: 1,016 under SBA 7(a) in Jackson and 9 under SBA 504 in Jackson. As SBA flags them, 12.9% of Jackson loans are franchise loans. Asset by asset, Jackson shows full-service restaurant with 49, hotel and motel with 38 and limited-service restaurant with 25. A further 747 Jackson loans sit in no named class in Jackson. The class lines for Jackson therefore never sum to 1,025. County by county, Jackson reads Hinds County, MS with 267, Rankin County, MS with 265 and Madison County, MS with 247 in Jackson.

Jackson, MS lender names, as SBA lists them in Jackson

In Jackson, this section reflects agency records of loans a lender carries or carried, as current holder, which tells volume, not practice. Jackson holders should be read that way. The Jackson SBA 7(a) table opens with Peoples Bank (MS) with 193 loans worth $62.7 million; Trustmark Bank with 161 loans worth $20.2 million; Community Bank of Mississippi with 152 loans worth $48.4 million. No holder in Jackson, MS reaches the 504 table threshold. The Jackson 504 side carries no lender names. In Jackson, concentration among top holders says little. A Jackson study should stand on evidence alone in Jackson.

Of Jackson approvals from FY2017 to FY2024, at least 10.2% were cancelled after approval. Another Jackson ceiling, counting loans lacking in Jackson a disbursement as cancelled is held back, with none for Jackson. For the Jackson disbursed cohort of 472 loans, FY2017 to FY2021, the floor is 4.4%. 3.4% were charged off inside five years. Jackson's busiest printed year was FY2017, with 129 loans. Files place a loan in Jackson using each project's county name, matched to the July 2023 delineation, hence the loan whose county fails to match stays out of every area. The 1,025 loans in Jackson, MS include those in no named class in Jackson.

Jackson, MS: questions a study has to answer for Jackson

First, prove demand in Jackson. Test the pull of the exact address in Jackson, not the metropolitan area in Jackson, while holding a slow start for Jackson. Next, price the Jackson project. Borrowers see a $150,000 median, yet rebuild the budget from quotes, with contingency stated openly in Jackson. Jackson debt service coverage ties it together. Report coverage on the proposed loan then in a stress case, to find the Jackson breakeven revenue. The Jackson appraisal is the final gate: so every income assumption needs sources that survive review in Jackson. In Jackson, 1,025 loans spread over many neighbourhoods, and a Jackson study must say which it targets. At 0.72x of the national median in Jackson, a very large Jackson project may look unusual in Jackson. The study should explain its scale for Jackson against $150,000.

SBA loans in the Jackson, MS Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY20261,025
Gross dollars approved$452.5 million
Median loan$150,000
Middle half of loans, from$62,600
Middle half of loans, to$424,000
SBA 7(a) loans1,016
SBA 504 loans9
Franchise share of loans12.9%
Rank among metro and micro areas by loans95 of 928
Median loan against the national median0.72x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)10.2%
The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling)withheld
Charged off to date, FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed loans (a floor)4.4%
Charged off within five years of approval3.4%
Loans in that cohort472

Both rates are floors. SBA withholds the status of open loans, so a loan counts as charged off only once SBA reports it; a rate needs at least 30 loans in its cohort and is otherwise not reported.

SBA loans approved in the Jackson, MS Metro Area, by fiscal year

050100150FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 129Loans, FY2018: 111Loans, FY2019: 76Loans, FY2020: 89Loans, FY2021: 116Loans, FY2022: 99Loans, FY2023: 102Loans, FY2024: 108Loans, FY2025: 113Loans, FY2026: 82
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY2017129$39.3 million
FY2018111$42.9 million
FY201976$35.0 million
FY202089$48.6 million
FY2021116$50.1 million
FY202299$37.9 million
FY2023102$45.5 million
FY2024108$42.9 million
FY2025113$60.4 million
FY202682$49.9 million

Loans by asset class

Asset classLoans
Not in any of the 39 asset classes747
Full-service restaurant49
Hotel and motel38
Limited-service restaurant25
Child care center24
Fitness center23
Gas station and truck stop17
Coffee shop and snack bar17
Automotive mechanical repair (car and truck)14
Beauty salon11
Dental office10
Medical office (physicians)9
Car wash7
Liquor store7
Self storage6
Rehabilitation and therapy clinic5
Caterers (includes banquet halls with catering staff)5

Classes with 5 or more loans; smaller ones are withheld, and more where a small one could be derived.

Most active SBA lenders

SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
Peoples Bank (MS)193$62.7 million
Trustmark Bank161$20.2 million
Community Bank of Mississippi152$48.4 million
BankPlus67$22.9 million
The Huntington National Bank53$20.0 million

Lenders with 5 or more loans here; a lender with fewer is not listed, and loans SBA or a receiver holds are counted but never listed as a lender.

Where the loans are, by county

CountyLoans
Hinds County, MS267
Rankin County, MS265
Madison County, MS247
Simpson County, MS126
Copiah County, MS55
Scott County, MS44
Yazoo County, MS15
Holmes County, MS6

Counties with 5 or more loans; smaller ones are not listed.

Metro is the CBSA (metropolitan or micropolitan statistical area) of the loan's project county, July 2023 delineation (OMB Bulletin 23-01). The county is matched by name (manifests/ld2/county-cbsa-map.csv); a loan whose county cannot be placed in a 2023 CBSA is left out of every metro.

All assets: every 7(a) and 504 approval in the metro, including those outside the 39 asset classes.

A value marked withheld rests on fewer than 5 loans, or is withheld so that such a figure cannot be derived from other published figures.

Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, 7(a) and 504 loan-level FOIA files (data.sba.gov), as of 2026-09-30; areas from the U.S. Census Bureau CBSA delineation, July 2023 (OMB Bulletin 23-01); Loan Analytics metro cell MT-27140.

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