State or territory · Census 2020–2024

Median rent and rent burden in Mississippi

Median monthly gross rent: $954
Rent burden · 30% or more: 51.3%
Severe burden · 50% or more: 26%

Burden figures cover an estimated 292,635 renter households with a computed rent-to-income ratio.

How much income would keep this rent at 30%?

The area’s median gross rent would equal 30% of an annual household income of $38,160. The calculation multiplies monthly rent by 12 and divides by 0.30.

Compare with broader areas

Same-period Census estimates
Area	Median gross rent ± margin	Rent burden	Severe burden
Mississippi	$954 ± $8	51.3%	26%
United States	$1,413 ± $2	51.1%	25.9%

Browse counties in Mississippi

Adams County$734 median gross rent · 47.9% rent burden
Alcorn County$751 median gross rent · 42.2% rent burden
Amite County$670 median gross rent · 54.4% rent burden
Attala County$825 median gross rent · 56.3% rent burden
Benton County$731 median gross rent · 43.1% rent burden
Bolivar County$685 median gross rent · 58.4% rent burden
Calhoun County$662 median gross rent · 48.8% rent burden
Chickasaw County$670 median gross rent · 40.3% rent burden
Choctaw County$638 median gross rent · 36.1% rent burden
Claiborne County$660 median gross rent · 57.6% rent burden
Clarke County$801 median gross rent · 46.5% rent burden
Clay County$817 median gross rent · 52.7% rent burden
Coahoma County$749 median gross rent · 53.1% rent burden
Copiah County$766 median gross rent · 47.2% rent burden
Covington County$662 median gross rent · 34% rent burden
DeSoto County$1,451 median gross rent · 51.9% rent burden
Forrest County$972 median gross rent · 51.6% rent burden
George County$844 median gross rent · 28.7% rent burden
Grenada County$807 median gross rent · 51.2% rent burden
Hancock County$977 median gross rent · 50.2% rent burden
Harrison County$1,115 median gross rent · 50.4% rent burden
Hinds County$1,061 median gross rent · 57.9% rent burden
Holmes County$590 median gross rent · 55.1% rent burden
Humphreys County$641 median gross rent · 44.1% rent burden
Itawamba County$811 median gross rent · 36.2% rent burden
Jackson County$1,101 median gross rent · 50.5% rent burden
Jefferson Davis County$757 median gross rent · 74.4% rent burden
Jones County$869 median gross rent · 50.1% rent burden
Lafayette County$1,085 median gross rent · 54.4% rent burden
Lamar County$1,126 median gross rent · 45.3% rent burden
Lauderdale County$953 median gross rent · 52.9% rent burden
Leake County$765 median gross rent · 36.8% rent burden
Lee County$957 median gross rent · 54.4% rent burden
Leflore County$689 median gross rent · 49.1% rent burden
Lincoln County$760 median gross rent · 45.7% rent burden
Lowndes County$930 median gross rent · 48.6% rent burden
Madison County$1,186 median gross rent · 53.8% rent burden
Marion County$818 median gross rent · 40.4% rent burden
Marshall County$868 median gross rent · 60.6% rent burden
Monroe County$768 median gross rent · 50.7% rent burden
Neshoba County$839 median gross rent · 45.8% rent burden
Newton County$638 median gross rent · 31.6% rent burden
Noxubee County$677 median gross rent · 63.4% rent burden
Oktibbeha County$915 median gross rent · 59.9% rent burden
Panola County$874 median gross rent · 51.7% rent burden
Pearl River County$906 median gross rent · 47.9% rent burden
Perry County$755 median gross rent · 58.9% rent burden
Pike County$919 median gross rent · 47.2% rent burden
Pontotoc County$864 median gross rent · 50.6% rent burden
Prentiss County$637 median gross rent · 30.3% rent burden
Quitman County$672 median gross rent · 42.7% rent burden
Rankin County$1,270 median gross rent · 50.1% rent burden
Scott County$888 median gross rent · 39.4% rent burden
Sharkey County$623 median gross rent · 40.9% rent burden
Simpson County$852 median gross rent · 43.8% rent burden
Smith County$664 median gross rent · 48.1% rent burden
Stone County$936 median gross rent · 49% rent burden
Sunflower County$694 median gross rent · 59.4% rent burden
Tallahatchie County$732 median gross rent · 43.1% rent burden
Tate County$963 median gross rent · 54.7% rent burden
Tippah County$790 median gross rent · 35.7% rent burden
Tishomingo County$682 median gross rent · 48% rent burden
Tunica County$977 median gross rent · 57.9% rent burden
Union County$865 median gross rent · 43.3% rent burden
Walthall County$790 median gross rent · 40.8% rent burden
Warren County$888 median gross rent · 45.4% rent burden
Washington County$833 median gross rent · 57% rent burden
Wayne County$784 median gross rent · 72.9% rent burden
Webster County$632 median gross rent · 47.6% rent burden
Winston County$721 median gross rent · 50.1% rent burden
Yalobusha County$667 median gross rent · 43.3% rent burden
Yazoo County$790 median gross rent · 55.5% rent burden

Data and definitions

How to read the estimates

The Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 American Community Survey five-year release provides these survey estimates. America.co matched Census rent tables by geography ID and used the Gazetteer’s representative points to calculate straight-line distance.

Gross rent includes contract rent and utilities or fuels paid separately. The median describes cash-rent homes surveyed during this period.
Rent burden means gross rent was at least 30% of household income. Severe rent burden means at least 50%. Both shares use only cash-rent households for which Census could compute the ratio.
Margins use the Census 90% confidence level. The rent margin is published by Census. The burden margins are approximate and combine the published category margins using the Census sum and proportion formulas. County and ZIP-area pages require at least 100 estimated households with a computed ratio, a rent margin at most 35% of the estimate, and a rent-burden margin of 20 percentage points or less.
ZIP areas are Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas. A mailing ZIP can differ or have no corresponding Census area. Distances are straight-line distances between representative points.

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