
Mississippi · Census place 40640
Liberty, MS population, income and ZIP codes
Quick answer
The population of the city of Liberty, Mississippi (Liberty, MS — Census place “Liberty town”) is 845 residents, ranking #215 of 427 places in Mississippi. Median household income is $42,829, the median home is worth $104,300 and median gross rent runs $415 a month. Looking for the Liberty Mississippi ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Liberty, MS: 39645.
- Population
- 845Liberty town residents
- Median household income
- $42,829Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $104,300Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $415Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 50 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 81.7%Owner-occupied households
Liberty ZIP codes (Mississippi)
Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Liberty.
The Liberty MS ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.
What the numbers mean in Liberty town
Housing cost measured against local earnings.
A household earning the Liberty town median would spend about 11.6% 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 2.4× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 16.4% of residents and 81.7% of households own their home.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
Liberty town, MS in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Liberty town is a very small community in Mississippi, with 845 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #215 of 427 ranked by population — larger than 49% of them. The median age here is 50 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 Liberty town earn a median of $42,829 a year, 45.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 3% below 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 16.4% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.
The typical owner-occupied home in Liberty town is valued at $104,300, 65.6% below the national figure and 14% below the $121,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $415 a month, 70.5% below the national figure, or roughly $4,980 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 11.6% 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 2.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 81.7% 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. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.
A median age of 50 puts Liberty town well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 845 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Liberty town against its county rather than against national figures.
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.
Compare with nearby places
Places of similar size in Mississippi.
- Vardaman town 1,004
- Prentiss town 1,048
- Sunflower town 1,049
- Stonewall town 1,058
- Algoma town 1,065
- Raleigh town 1,104
- Conehatta CDP 1,110
- Port Gibson city 1,114
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Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Liberty town?
- Liberty town has 845 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #215 of 427 in Mississippi.
- What is the median household income in Liberty town?
- Median household income in Liberty town is $42,829 a year, 45.5% below the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Liberty town?
- Median gross rent is $415 a month and the median home value is $104,300, so rent absorbs about 11.6% of median household income.
- Is Liberty town affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 2.4× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Liberty town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 11.6% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this Liberty town 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.