New Augusta, MS population, income and ZIP codes

New Augusta town is a very small community in Mississippi, with 459 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #279 of 427 ranked by population — larger than 34% of them. The median age here is 37.7 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 New Augusta town earn a median of not published a year. 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 44.2% 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 New Augusta town is valued at $85,000, 72% below the national figure and 30% below the $121,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 56% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

With 459 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare New Augusta town against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income, gross rent for New Augusta town 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.