What is the population of Morton city?

Morton city has 3,661 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #86 of 427 in Mississippi.

What is the median household income in Morton city?

Median household income in Morton city is $38,889 a year, 50.5% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $932 a month and the median home value is $90,000, so rent absorbs about 28.8% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 2.3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Morton city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 28.8% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Morton, MS population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Morton, Mississippi (Morton, MS — Census place “Morton city”) is 3,661 residents, ranking #86 of 427 places in Mississippi. Median household income is $38,889, the median home is worth $90,000 and median gross rent runs $932 a month. Looking for the Morton Mississippi ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Morton, MS: 39117.

Population: 3,661Morton city residents
Median household income: $38,889Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $90,000Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $932Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 34.9 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 64.3%Owner-occupied households

Morton ZIP codes (Mississippi)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Morton.

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

39117

What the numbers mean in Morton city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Morton city median would spend about 28.8% 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 2.3× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 29.8% of residents and 64.3% of households own their home.

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

Morton city, MS in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Morton city is a small town in Mississippi, with 3,661 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #86 of 427 ranked by population — larger than 80% of them. The median age here is 34.9 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 Morton city earn a median of $38,889 a year, 50.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 12% below 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 29.8% 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 Morton city is valued at $90,000, 70.3% below the national figure and 26% below the $121,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $932 a month, 33.7% below the national figure, or roughly $11,184 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 28.8% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.3×, 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. 64.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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 Morton city?: Morton city has 3,661 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #86 of 427 in Mississippi.
What is the median household income in Morton city?: Median household income in Morton city is $38,889 a year, 50.5% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Morton city?: Median gross rent is $932 a month and the median home value is $90,000, so rent absorbs about 28.8% of median household income.
Is Morton city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Morton city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 28.8% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Morton 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.