What is the population of Carthage city?

Carthage city has 4,859 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #72 of 427 in Mississippi.

What is the median household income in Carthage city?

Median household income in Carthage city is $47,304 a year, 39.8% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Carthage city?

Median gross rent is $549 a month and the median home value is $146,800, so rent absorbs about 13.9% of median household income.

Is Carthage city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 3.1× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Carthage city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 13.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Carthage, MS population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Carthage, Mississippi (Carthage, MS — Census place “Carthage city”) is 4,859 residents, ranking #72 of 427 places in Mississippi. Median household income is $47,304, the median home is worth $146,800 and median gross rent runs $549 a month. Looking for the Carthage Mississippi ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Carthage, MS: 39051.

Population: 4,859Carthage city residents
Median household income: $47,304Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $146,800Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $549Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 35.8 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 68.8%Owner-occupied households

Carthage ZIP codes (Mississippi)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Carthage.

The Carthage MS ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

39051

What the numbers mean in Carthage city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Carthage city median would spend about 13.9% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 3.1× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 28.9% of residents and 68.8% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Carthage city, MS in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Carthage city is a small town in Mississippi, with 4,859 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #72 of 427 ranked by population — larger than 83% of them. The median age here is 35.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. 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 Carthage city earn a median of $47,304 a year, 39.8% below the national figure of $78,538 and 7% above the $44,178 median for the 191 Mississippi cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 28.9% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Carthage city is valued at $146,800, 51.6% below the national figure and 21% above the $121,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $549 a month, 61% below the national figure, or roughly $6,588 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 13.9% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 68.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Carthage city?: Carthage city has 4,859 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #72 of 427 in Mississippi.
What is the median household income in Carthage city?: Median household income in Carthage city is $47,304 a year, 39.8% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Carthage city?: Median gross rent is $549 a month and the median home value is $146,800, so rent absorbs about 13.9% of median household income.
Is Carthage city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 3.1× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Carthage city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 13.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Carthage city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.