
Mississippi · FIPS 28139
Tippah ZIP codes — Tippah County, Mississippi
Quick answer
Tippah County is home to 21,621 residents with a median household income of $51,141 and a median home value of $128,400. 76.2% of households own their home and 18.9% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Tippah ZIP code? 6 ZIP code areas fall inside Tippah County, Mississippi, listed in full below.
- Population
- 21,621Tippah County residents
- Median household income
- $51,141Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $128,400Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $720Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 39.7 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 76.2%Owner-occupied households
Tippah County, MS in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Tippah County is a mid-size town in Mississippi, with 21,621 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 39.7 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 Tippah County earn a median of $51,141 a year, 34.9% below the national figure of $78,538. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 18.9% 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 Tippah County is valued at $128,400, 57.7% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $720 a month, 48.8% below the national figure, or roughly $8,640 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16.9% 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 2.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 76.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.
Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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 Tippah County
ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Tippah County.
How to read this page
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
Cities and towns in Mississippi
Largest Census places in Mississippi by population.
- Jackson city 149,827
- Gulfport city 72,533
- Southaven city 55,531
- Biloxi city 49,011
- Hattiesburg city 48,507
- Olive Branch city 46,538
- Tupelo city 37,825
- Meridian city 34,466
- Greenville city 28,833
- Madison city 27,775
- Pearl city 27,458
- Clinton city 27,418
Nearby counties
Other counties in Mississippi.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Tippah County?
- Tippah County has 21,621 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
- What is the median household income in Tippah County?
- Median household income in Tippah County is $51,141 a year, 34.9% below the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Tippah County?
- Median gross rent is $720 a month and the median home value is $128,400, so rent absorbs about 16.9% of median household income.
- Is Tippah County affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 2.5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Tippah County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this Tippah 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.