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SheetMS-RIDGELAND-MS · Ridgeland, MS 24,548 pop · income 41st pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Ridgeland
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Ridgeland on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Starkville · lowest
39,751
Starkville · lowest
39,751 median HH income
28.1% of the leader · rank #1
Ridgeland · this city
63,470
Ridgeland · this city
63,470 median HH income
44.9% of the leader · rank #2
Spring Ridge · near
63,472
Spring Ridge · near
63,472 median HH income
44.9% of the leader · rank #3
Blue Mound · near
63,472
Blue Mound · near
63,472 median HH income
44.9% of the leader · rank #4
Mason · near
63,472
Mason · near
63,472 median HH income
44.9% of the leader · rank #5
Enid · near
63,472
Enid · near
63,472 median HH income
44.9% of the leader · rank #6
Herndon · highest
141,418
Herndon · highest
141,418 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Ridgeland on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 24,548.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Ridgeland - the verdict
Nationally, Ridgeland sits in the 41st percentile for household income and the 40th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
41st
percentile, household income
58th
percentile, home value
0th
percentile, median rent
40th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Ridgeland, MS
Mississippi's Ridgeland is a small city, with 24,548 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Ridgeland report a median income of $63,470 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 7.8%. Home values in Ridgeland run a median of $259,600, and the median resident age is 35.5 years. About 50.4% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 68.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 27 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 170% from five years earlier. Ridgeland reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1700.3 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Mississippi run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Mississippi scores 87.0 (Well Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $924 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Mississippi run around $223, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Natural-hazard exposure scores 50.9 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Ridgeland's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from reported crime to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to population change to schools and households to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Ridgeland, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, local building permits, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What can the FBI record say about safety in Ridgeland?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1700.3 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 25% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
Which cities make useful reference points for Ridgeland?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within Mississippi, the closest population matches are Brandon (25,352 residents, $93,073 income); Columbus (23,616 residents, $40,588 income); Starkville (25,611 residents, $39,751 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Landover, MD (24,558 residents); Kerrville, TX (24,532 residents); Herndon, VA (24,529 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
What does the journey to work look like in Ridgeland?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 84.0%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Is Ridgeland growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +132 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 27 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Ridgeland?
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 3 public schools within the city match. 50.4% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
Poverty estimate
7.8%
Bachelor's degree+
50.4%
Matched public schools
3
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
How far does income reach against housing in Ridgeland?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 7.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
4.1×
Home value
$259,600
Household income
$63,470
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Below median income · poverty 7.8% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
87.0 (US=100)
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Mississippi average
C
City profile score · Ridgeland, MS
58/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Cost of living A+
87.0 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Bachelor's+ share A-
50.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate D
7.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income D
$63,470
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime F
320 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Ridgeland profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 97/100 (A+) · 87.0 index
Bachelor's+ share: 84/100 (A-) · 50.4%
Poverty rate: 48/100 (D) · 7.8%
Household income: 40/100 (D) · $63,470
Violent crime: 30/100 (F) · 320 /100k
Where Ridgeland sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Ridgeland's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Ridgeland highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Ridgeland, MS (this city): home $259,600, crime 1,700/100k
Kerrville, TX : home $272,700, crime 728/100k
Herndon, VA : home $568,700, crime 2,035/100k
Greenbelt, MD : home $258,600, crime 5,026/100k
Watertown, NY : home $149,800, crime 4,528/100k
Homer Glen, IL : home $400,000, crime 293/100k
Brandon, MS : home $255,900, crime 463/100k
Starkville, MS : home $265,900, crime 2,119/100k
Oxford, MS : home $333,400, crime 1,980/100k
Horn Lake, MS : home $158,900, crime 1,509/100k
Pascagoula, MS : home $132,500, crime 5,197/100k
How does Ridgeland compare to other US cities?
Here's how Ridgeland stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income41% higher than other cities
Home value58% pricier than other cities
Median rent0% pricier than other cities
Safety40% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Mississippi alone, Ridgeland ranks #28 of 56 Mississippi cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Ridgeland against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Mississippi only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Mississippi-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Ridgeland near the bottom of Mississippi's cities
Among the 395 Mississippi cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Ridgeland ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Ridgeland only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#74 of 345
79th percentile in Mississippi
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 395
0th percentile in Mississippi
Median Home Value
#14 of 348
96th percentile in Mississippi
Poverty Rate
#285 of 393
27th percentile in Mississippi
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#15 of 394
96th percentile in Mississippi
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Mississippi only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
41st percentile nationally for median household income · 40th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Ridgeland's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Ridgeland's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Ridgeland's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$259,60042nd percentilemore affordable than 42% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Ridgeland's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,948 of 15,516
More affordable than 29% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,058 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.1×, Ridgeland sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,948 of 15,516 and #2,058 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$63,470Ridgeland, MS median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Ridgeland, MS median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Ridgeland, MS.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)50.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)7.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)68.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
24,548
Median Income
$63,470
Median Home Value
$259,600
Median Age
35.5
Poverty Rate
7.8%
Labor force participation
68.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
50.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1700.3
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
319.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1380.8
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Ridgeland's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
24,618 residents
2021
24,487 residents
2022
24,536 residents
2023
24,581 residents
2024
24,703 residents
2025
24,750 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
27
housing units authorized
Single-Family
27
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
10
10
0
$6.1M
2020
24
24
0
$18.3M
2021
38
38
0
$20.0M
2022
41
41
0
$29.3M
2023
24
24
0
$14.6M
2024
27
27
0
$16.2M
Permit volume increased 170% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
84.0%
Carpool
7.6%
Public Transit
0.2%
Walk
0.1%
Work from Home
7.6%
Based on 13,485 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Mississippi statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $223
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Mississippi at $223 (electricity about $135 , water and sewer about $38 ).
These are Mississippi statewide averages, not a meter reading for Ridgeland. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Mississippi's BEA cost-of-living index is 87.0 (Well Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Ridgeland is $924/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Mississippi statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 50.9 / 100 (Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Mississippi statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Ridgeland sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Ridgeland compares to similar-size Mississippi cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.