Benton, MS population, income and ZIP codes

Benton CDP is a very small community in Mississippi, with 448 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #280 of 427 ranked by population — larger than 34% of them. The median age here is 48.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Benton CDP earn a median of $59,759 a year, 23.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 35% above the $44,178 median for the 191 Mississippi cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 7.1% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Benton CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 85.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

With 448 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Benton CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value, gross rent for Benton CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.