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SheetMS-TUNICA-RESORTS-MS · Tunica Resorts, MS 1,977 pop · income 8th pct · 4 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 Tunica Resorts
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Tunica Resorts on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Taylorsville · lowest
33,750
Taylorsville · lowest
33,750 median HH income
28.5% of the leader · rank #1
Imboden · near
40,446
Imboden · near
40,446 median HH income
34.1% of the leader · rank #2
Upper Fruitla… · near
40,446
Upper Fruitla… · near
40,446 median HH income
34.1% of the leader · rank #3
Camden · near
40,450
Camden · near
40,450 median HH income
34.2% of the leader · rank #4
Tunica Resorts · this city
40,455
Tunica Resorts · this city
40,455 median HH income
34.2% of the leader · rank #5
Vina · near
40,469
Vina · near
40,469 median HH income
34.2% of the leader · rank #6
Glendale · highest
118,438
Glendale · highest
118,438 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Tunica Resorts on ACS population and median household income
. 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: 1,977.
Nationally, Tunica Resorts sits in the 8th percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
8th
percentile, household income
34th
percentile, home value
0th
percentile, median rent
📝 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: Tunica Resorts, MS
1,977 people live in Tunica Resorts, Mississippi - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Tunica Resorts households earn a median of $40,455 annually, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.5%. Typical homes in Tunica Resorts are valued around $172,400, and the median resident age is 30.3 years. About 12.2% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 64.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Living costs in Mississippi run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Mississippi at 87.0 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Well Below Average). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $924 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Mississippi's average monthly utility costs around $223 (state average). 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 Tunica Resorts'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 work and mobility 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 Tunica Resorts, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, within-city Census tract profiles.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, annual population history; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Tunica Resorts?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 76.3%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
What can 4 Census tracts reveal inside Tunica Resorts?
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 Tunica Resorts?
Within Mississippi, the closest population matches are Taylorsville (1,997 residents, $33,750 income); Rolling Fork (2,001 residents, $34,375 income); Quitman (1,949 residents, $44,744 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Bayou La Batre, AL (1,977 residents); Owingsville, KY (1,977 residents); Blooming Prairie, MN (1,977 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.
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.
How far does income reach against housing in Tunica Resorts?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Mississippi average
D
City profile score · Tunica Resorts, MS
47/100
4 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.
Poverty rate B+
3.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
12.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$40,455
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Tunica Resorts profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 97/100 (A+) · 87.0 index
Poverty rate: 75/100 (B+) · 3.5%
Bachelor's+ share: 12/100 (F) · 12.2%
Household income: 7/100 (F) · $40,455
How does Tunica Resorts compare to other US cities?
Tunica Resorts measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income8% higher than other cities
Home value34% pricier than other cities
Median rent0% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Tunica Resorts 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 Tunica Resorts near the bottom of Mississippi's cities
Among the 395 Mississippi cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Tunica Resorts ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Tunica Resorts only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#215 of 345
38th percentile in Mississippi
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 395
0th percentile in Mississippi
Median Home Value
#70 of 348
80th percentile in Mississippi
Poverty Rate
#321 of 393
18th percentile in Mississippi
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#263 of 394
32nd 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
8th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Tunica Resorts's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$172,400Among the most affordablemore affordable than 66% 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
Tunica Resorts's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,422 of 15,516
More affordable than 26% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,826 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.3×, Tunica Resorts sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,422 of 15,516 and #8,826 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
$40,455Tunica Resorts, MS median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Tunica Resorts, 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 Tunica Resorts, MS.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)12.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
1,977
Median Income
$40,455
Median Home Value
$172,400
Median Age
30.3
Poverty Rate
3.5%
Labor force participation
64.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
12.2%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
76.3%
Carpool
22.4%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
0.0%
Other
1.3%
Based on 952 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 Tunica Resorts. 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 Tunica Resorts 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 Tunica Resorts sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Tunica Resorts 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, 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.