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CDFI lenders in Jones County, MS

10 have a bank or credit-union branch here. 4 more say they serve all of Mississippi. Sources: lender websites (29 Oct 2026–4 Nov 2026), the CDFI Fund list (21 Oct 2026) and FDIC/NCUA branch records.

Name this county: 0
Based here: 0
Branch here: 10
Serve all of MS: 4

None of the lender websites we read names Jones County; the lenders below are based here, have an office here or serve the whole state. Lenders based elsewhere may lend here too. Search your exact ZIP code in the finder to include lenders based nearby. Towns in this county: Eastabuchie, Ellisville, Laurel, Moselle, Sandersville, Soso.

Lenders compared for Jones County

17 with local records

Lender	Local records	Loan sizes	Head office
1. Community Bank of Mississippi Bank or thrift, Flowood MS	7 offices here; 15 SBA loans here, FY2020–FY2026; 419 home loans here, 2025	ask	71 mi
2. First State Bank Bank or thrift, Waynesboro MS	2 offices here; 5 SBA loans here, FY2020–FY2026; 41 home loans here, 2025	ask	29 mi
3. Citizens Bank Bank or thrift, Columbia MS	1 office here; 22 home loans here, 2025	ask	46 mi
4. Citizens National Bank of Meridian Bank or thrift, Meridian MS	1 office here; 15 home loans here, 2025	ask	57 mi
5. BankFirst Financial Services Bank or thrift, Columbus MS	2 offices here; 5 home loans here, 2025	ask	136 mi
6. HOPE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION Credit union, Jackson MS	18 home loans here, 2025	ask	74 mi
7. PRIORITYONE BANK Bank or thrift, Magee MS	15 home loans here, 2025	ask	37 mi
8. BANKPLUS Bank or thrift, Belzoni MS	10 home loans here, 2025	ask	131 mi
9. Community Bancshares of Mississippi, Inc. Bank holding company, Flowood MS	7 offices here	ask	71 mi
10. COVINGTON COUNTY BANK Bank or thrift, Collins MS	6 SBA loans here, FY2020–FY2026	ask	22 mi
11. Peoples Bank Bank or thrift, Mendenhall MS	6 SBA loans here, FY2020–FY2026	$500–$5M	43 mi
12. Ferguson Federal Credit Union Credit union, Monticello MS	4 home loans here, 2025	ask	57 mi
13. Merchants & Marine Bank Bank or thrift, Pascagoula MS	4 home loans here, 2025	ask	96 mi
14. First State Corporation Bank holding company, Waynesboro MS	2 offices here	ask	29 mi
15. BankFirst Capital Corporation Bank holding company, Columbus MS	2 offices here	ask	136 mi
16. Citizens Corporation Bank holding company, Columbia MS	1 office here	ask	46 mi
17. Citizens National Banc Corp. Bank holding company, Meridian MS	1 office here	ask	57 mi

12 of these 17 lenders have received CDFI Fund awards, together $145.7M in fiscal years 2000–2024 (CDFI Fund award database; each lender page lists its awards). An award funds the lender, not a particular borrower.

Order: how many kinds of local record we hold (its website names the county or a town in it, headquarters, a branch, SBA loans or HMDA home loans for borrowers here), then the number of those records, then the head office's distance from the county centre. Loan sizes are the range the lender's website states. It is not a rating and nobody pays for a place. SBA loans: SBA 7(a)/504 data (FY2020–FY2026, 3 or more shown); home loans: HMDA 2025 originations (3 or more shown); branches: FDIC/NCUA; distances are straight lines from the average position of the county's ZIP codes.

Where these lenders have offices

14 lenders

1 head office and 72 branches or offices of 14 lenders on this page, within 30 miles of the centre of Jones County. Lenders with no office nearby may still lend here; many work by phone and online.

Banks and credit unions with a branch in this county

10 certified CDFIs have at least one office in Jones County (FDIC office data as of 30 Oct 2026). A branch shows presence, not a stated service area; credit unions also require membership.

CDFI mortgage lenders active here

Certified CDFIs reported 564 originated home loans for properties in Jones County in 2025 under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act: 46% of the 1,236 home loans that all HMDA lenders reported here.

Plus 6 more certified CDFIs with fewer than 3 loans here each (not listed).

A lender headquartered far away can appear here: HMDA counts the county of the property, not of the lender. Banks and credit unions below the HMDA reporting thresholds and most loan funds do not report, so other CDFIs may also lend here.

Source: FFIEC Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data for 2025, snapshot frozen 2 Jun 2026, loan-level records read through the CFPB HMDA Data Browser API on 3 Nov 2026. Originated loans only; applications that were denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted. HMDA publishes each loan amount as the middle of a $10,000 band, so totals and medians are approximate. Counts under 3 are not shown. How we match lenders.

Small business and SBA lending in Jones County

Official statistics

Median household income in Jones County is $52,216, 7% below the Mississippi figure of $56,447 (ACS 2020–2024).

Businesses here took 52.8 SBA-backed loans per 1,000 employer businesses over FY2020–FY2026: more than the median Mississippi county (19.1), rank 15 of 82.

Measure	Jones County	Mississippi
Businesses with paid employees (CBP 2023)	1,306 (2.2% of the state)	60,465
…of which under 20 employees	85%	85%
Businesses without employees (Nonemployer Statistics 2023)	4,985	253,350
Median household income (ACS 2020–2024)	$52,216 (7% below the state)	$56,447
SBA 7(a) and 504 approvals, all lenders, FY2020–FY2026	69 (66 7(a), 3 504)	2,067
…per 1,000 businesses with employees	52.8 (rank 15 of 82 Mississippi counties)	19.1 (median county)
Median SBA 7(a) loan, all lenders	$237,700	$222,350
…with a certified CDFI as lender, CDC or third-party lender	36 (52%)	1,086 (53%)
Variable-rate 7(a): median rate over prime at approval, FY2024–26	2 pts (20 loans; 10% at the SBA maximum)	2.5 pts (10% at the maximum)

Approvals by fiscal year: FY2020 6 · FY2021 14 · FY2022 11 · FY2023 8 · FY2024 7 · FY2025 11 · FY2026 12.

For comparison, not an offer. SBA figures count approvals by every SBA lender for borrowers whose ZIP code lies in the county, not only CDFIs; approval is not disbursement. Rate over prime = the SBA's recorded initial rate minus the prime rate on the approval day; SBA caps it at 3 to 6.5 points depending on loan size (current prime rate and caps: methodology).

Sources: Census Bureau County Business Patterns 2023, Nonemployer Statistics 2023 and American Community Survey 2020–2024 (table B19013); SBA 7(a) & 504 FOIA data as of 30 Sep 2026; prime rate: FRED DPRIME; SBA maximums: SBA 7(a) terms. Downloaded 15 Nov 2026. How we compute these.

SBA loans made here by CDFIs

SBA data as of 30 Sep 2026

Certified CDFIs were the lender, the CDC or the third-party lender on 36 SBA approvals (34 7(a) loans and 2 504 projects) for borrowers in Jones County in fiscal years 2020–2026, from 6 CDFIs. The 7(a) loans total $15.3M approved.

CDFIs with 3 or more: Community Bank of Mississippi (15), Peoples Bank (6), COVINGTON COUNTY BANK (6), First State Bank (5). 2 more CDFIs made 1 or 2 each.

Counted by the county of the borrower's ZIP code. Approval is not disbursement. These are only the SBA loans of certified CDFIs; most SBA lenders here are not CDFIs, and CDFIs also lend outside SBA programs.

Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, 7(a) & 504 FOIA loan data, files as of 30 Sep 2026, downloaded 3 Nov 2026. Our counts, cancelled approvals left out. How we match lenders.

CDFI lending recorded here (FY2022)

CDFI Fund data, released Dec 2024

895 loans and investments totaling $112M (median $45,147) were reported to the CDFI Fund for borrowers and projects in Jones County in fiscal year 2022, by 22 reporting CDFIs.

Purpose (CDFI Fund category)	Count	Total	Median
Non-real estate microenterprise	369	$7.2M	$16,394
Home purchase	151	$23.6M	$99,000
Non-real estate business	144	$30.2M	$100,000
Real estate: commercial construction, permanent or acquisition	81	$31.1M	$127,282
Real estate: single-family housing rehabilitation	77	$8.7M	$71,616
Home improvement	48	$4.6M	$58,436
Other purposes	23	$6.3M

CDFI banks and credit unions also reported 913 consumer loans in Jones County totaling $11.7M (Consumer Loan Report, tract totals, so no median); they counted 1% of them as serving low-income borrowers.

Loans and investments reported in other years: FY2018 169 · FY2019 215 · FY2020 391 · FY2021 436.

Only CDFIs that hold an active CDFI Fund award (CDFI Program, Native American CDFI Assistance or the CDFI Rapid Response Program) report these transactions, so this is not all lending by the certified CDFIs on this page. The Fund masks which CDFI made each loan, so we cannot say which lender listed here made them.

Source: CDFI Fund, CDFI/NACA/CDFI RRP Program Award Recipient Data Release, Transaction Level Report and Consumer Loan Report public files for fiscal year 2022 (released Dec 2024; downloaded 3 Nov 2026). Amounts are original loan or investment amounts as reported. Place = the 2010 census tract of each record. How we count.

Say they serve all of Mississippi

Free help before you apply

These offices give free or low-cost advice: a Small Business Development Center or SCORE mentor can help with the business plan, cash-flow projections and paperwork most business lenders ask for, and a HUD-approved housing counselor can help with a homebuyer course, a budget or a missed mortgage payment. Some counseling agencies also lend; using their advice does not commit you to their loans. Call ahead to check hours and what they cover.

Business advice

University of Southern Mississippi MS-SBDCSmall Business Development Center · 6197 Highway 49 South, Room 215, Hattiesburg, MS 39406601-266-5892 · about 34 miles from the centre of Jones County

Housing counseling

Breakthrough Community Services, Inc.HUD-approved housing counselor · 1313 Country Club Rd, Hattiesburg, MS 39401601-582-3475 · about 26 miles from the centre of Jones County

Sources: SBA local assistance listings, read 6 Nov 2026; HUD's list of approved housing counseling agencies (open-data version last updated 9 Apr 2025). For the current list and the services each agency offers, use the CFPB's housing counselor search (it uses HUD's list) or call HUD at 800-569-4287. Offices are placed by ZIP code, so distances are approximate.