What is the population of Choctaw County?

Choctaw County has 8,172 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.

What is the median household income in Choctaw County?

Median household income in Choctaw County is $48,321 a year, 38.5% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Choctaw County?

Median gross rent is $661 a month and the median home value is $104,500, so rent absorbs about 16.4% of median household income.

Is Choctaw County affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 2.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Choctaw County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Mississippi · FIPS 28019

Choctaw ZIP codes — Choctaw County, Mississippi

Quick answer

Choctaw County is home to 8,172 residents with a median household income of $48,321 and a median home value of $104,500. 80.3% of households own their home and 15.9% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Choctaw ZIP code? 3 ZIP code areas fall inside Choctaw County, Mississippi, listed in full below.

Population: 8,172Choctaw County residents
Median household income: $48,321Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $104,500Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $661Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 43 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 80.3%Owner-occupied households

Choctaw County, MS in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Choctaw County is a mid-size town in Mississippi, with 8,172 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 43 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Choctaw County earn a median of $48,321 a year, 38.5% below the national figure of $78,538. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 15.9% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Choctaw County is valued at $104,500, 65.6% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $661 a month, 53% below the national figure, or roughly $7,932 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16.4% 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 2.2×, 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. 80.3% 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. 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.

ZIP codes in Choctaw County

ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Choctaw County.

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What these estimates cover.

Figures are five-year rolling averages from the American Community Survey, not single-year counts, so they describe conditions across 2019-2023 ACS 5-year rather than a single date. Median home value covers owner-occupied units as valued by their owners, and median gross rent includes utilities the renter pays. Small counties carry wide margins of error; treat single-dollar differences between neighbouring counties as noise.

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

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Choctaw County?: Choctaw County has 8,172 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
What is the median household income in Choctaw County?: Median household income in Choctaw County is $48,321 a year, 38.5% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Choctaw County?: Median gross rent is $661 a month and the median home value is $104,500, so rent absorbs about 16.4% of median household income.
Is Choctaw County affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Choctaw County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Choctaw County data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.