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SheetMS-SENATOBIA-MS · Senatobia, MS 8,306 pop · income 23rd pct · 6 tracts
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 Senatobia
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Senatobia on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Pulaski · lowest
45,420
Pulaski · lowest
45,420 median HH income
45.3% of the leader · rank #1
Ravenna · near
52,368
Ravenna · near
52,368 median HH income
52.2% of the leader · rank #2
Senatobia · this city
52,370
Senatobia · this city
52,370 median HH income
52.2% of the leader · rank #3
Indiantown · near
52,372
Indiantown · near
52,372 median HH income
52.2% of the leader · rank #4
Duquesne · near
52,372
Duquesne · near
52,372 median HH income
52.2% of the leader · rank #5
Garibaldi · near
52,372
Garibaldi · near
52,372 median HH income
52.2% of the leader · rank #6
Runnemede · highest
100,366
Runnemede · highest
100,366 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 Senatobia 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: 8,306.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Senatobia - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Senatobia lands in the 23rd percentile for household income and the 36th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
23rd
percentile, household income
45th
percentile, home value
0th
percentile, median rent
36th
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: Senatobia, MS
Mississippi's Senatobia is a small town, with 8,306 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Senatobia report a median income of $52,370 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 25.0%. Home values in Senatobia run a median of $208,000, and the median resident age is 30.9 years. Educational attainment runs 28.7% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 54.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 30 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Slowing), down 12% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 1839.5 crimes per 100,000 residents, near the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 61.9°F with 57.9 inches of precipitation per year and 0.4 inches of snowfall.
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. Monthly utility costs average around $223 across Mississippi, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Workers in Senatobia report an average commute of 32.1 minutes, with 92.6% driving alone and 0.4% working from home. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 50.9 out of 100 (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Senatobia'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 climate and hazard context to schools and households to work and mobility to population change to within-city variation to comparison shortlist to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Senatobia, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, annual population history, local building permits, commute-mode shares, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What can the FBI record say about safety in Senatobia?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1839.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 19% 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.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 61.9°F, with 57.9 inches of precipitation and 0.4 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Mississippi is 50.9 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
Which cities make useful reference points for Senatobia?
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 Gulf Hills (8,193 residents, $66,472 income); St. Martin (7,797 residents, $53,488 income); New Albany (7,661 residents, $46,276 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Pulaski, TN (8,305 residents); Trinidad, CO (8,309 residents); North Madison, OH (8,309 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.
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 Senatobia?
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. 28.7% 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
25.0%
Bachelor's degree+
28.7%
Matched public schools
3
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What does the journey to work look like in Senatobia?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 92.6%. The reported mean trip to work is 32.1 minutes.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. The profile is strongly car-oriented, so a relocation comparison should put trip distance, vehicle access, and household fuel costs ahead of a citywide commute average. The same-state peer links offer a more relevant benchmark than a national label.
Drive alone
92.6%
Work from home
0.4%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 3,586 workers age 16+.
Is Senatobia growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +109 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 30 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
2020 estimate
8,364
2025 estimate
8,473
Period change
+1.3%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in Senatobia?
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. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 4.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 25.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
4.0×
Home value
$208,000
Household income
$52,370
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Low income · poverty 25.0% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
87.0 (US=100)
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Mississippi average
D
City profile score · Senatobia, MS
43/100
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 C
28.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime D
230 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income F
$52,370
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
25.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Senatobia profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 97/100 (A+) · 87.0 index
Bachelor's+ share: 56/100 (C) · 28.7%
Violent crime: 43/100 (D) · 230 /100k
Household income: 23/100 (F) · $52,370
Poverty rate: 6/100 (F) · 25.0%
Where Senatobia sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Senatobia'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 - Senatobia highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Senatobia, MS (this city): home $208,000, crime 1,840/100k
Pulaski, TN : home $168,200, crime 2,827/100k
Trinidad, CO : home $196,900, crime 3,743/100k
Runnemede, NJ : home $217,500, crime 2,017/100k
Mount Joy, PA : home $241,300, crime 431/100k
Firebaugh, CA : home $235,100, crime 1,081/100k
New Albany, MS : home $150,000, crime 1,216/100k
Booneville, MS : home $123,500, crime 3,890/100k
Batesville, MS : home $190,800, crime 5,102/100k
How does Senatobia compare to other US cities?
Here's how Senatobia stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income23% higher than other cities
Home value45% pricier than other cities
Median rent0% pricier than other cities
Safety36% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Mississippi and the picture shifts: Senatobia ranks #31 of 56 Mississippi cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Senatobia 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 Senatobia near the bottom of Mississippi's cities
Among the 395 Mississippi cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Senatobia ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Senatobia only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#126 of 345
63rd percentile in Mississippi
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 395
0th percentile in Mississippi
Median Home Value
#36 of 348
90th percentile in Mississippi
Poverty Rate
#115 of 393
71st percentile in Mississippi
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#68 of 394
82nd 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
23rd percentile nationally for median household income · 36th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Senatobia's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Senatobia'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 Senatobia's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$208,000Among the most affordablemore affordable than 55% 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
Senatobia's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,627 of 15,516
More affordable than 32% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,319 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.0×, Senatobia sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,627 of 15,516 and #8,319 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$52,370Senatobia, MS median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Senatobia, 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 Senatobia, MS.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)28.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)25.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)54.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,306
Median Income
$52,370
Median Home Value
$208,000
Median Age
30.9
Poverty Rate
25.0%
Labor force participation
54.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
28.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1839.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
229.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1609.6
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
61.9°F
Annual Precipitation
57.9"
Annual Snowfall
0.4"
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
Senatobia's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
8,364 residents
2021
8,386 residents
2022
8,403 residents
2023
8,377 residents
2024
8,469 residents
2025
8,473 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
30
housing units authorized
Single-Family
30
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
3.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
34
34
0
$7.3M
2020
37
37
0
$8.7M
2021
33
33
0
$8.0M
2022
27
27
0
$6.5M
2023
26
26
0
$6.3M
2024
30
30
0
$6.9M
Permit volume decreased 12% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
32.1 minutes
Drive Alone
92.6%
Carpool
5.9%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.2%
Work from Home
0.4%
Based on 3,586 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 Senatobia. 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 Senatobia 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 Senatobia sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Senatobia 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.