39183Vicksburg, Mississippi

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 39183.

47out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 10% of 5,298 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity5126th of 6,210 ZIP areas measured38
Schools2444th of 4,422 ZIP areas measured48
Growth5379th of 5,428 ZIP areas measured7
Housing affordabilityTop 9% of 6,685 ZIP areas measured100
ClimateTop 42% of 6,789 ZIP areas measured72
Physical resilience5179th of 6,709 ZIP areas measured29
Access5858th of 6,791 ZIP areas measured72
Economic stability6438th of 6,742 ZIP areas measured24
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published ZIP profiles: unemployment is 5.4% and the Opportunity signal places 39183 in the bottom 17%.

Residential permitting has slowed: 3 units authorized over the past twelve months, 70% below the prior year.

Physical-risk exposure is above the national median, driven mainly by drought, inland flooding and tornado.

At a glance

Population
13,663
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$73,946
Top 47% nationally
Density
44/sq mi
308.5 sq mi of land
Median age
40.1
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Vicksburg
Mississippi
Metro area
Vicksburg, MS
Nearest major airport
JAN
45 mi · Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers Intl
Median home value
$157,300
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 5.4% is lower than 16% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 0.6% over the past year, to 7,623 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$10,246$73,946Top 47%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,592$36,972Top 49%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate22.3%Top 14%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute24.5 minBottom 32%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher28.9%Top 36%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Employment7,623Bottom 1%of 6,544June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-2.7%Bottom 13%of 6,542June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.6%Top 45%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force8,056Bottom 1%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force participation57.6%Bottom 39%of 33,2522024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.1%Bottom 45%of 6,544June 2026
Unemployment rate5.4%Top 16%of 6,544June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202474k58k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $73,946 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Vicksburg, MS, the city containing this ZIP code.

35% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 32% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 15.5 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
3
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
15.5
across all schools here
Math proficiency
35.3%
Top 48% in Mississippi
Reading proficiency
31.9%
Bottom 40% in Mississippi
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Sherman Avenue ElementaryVicksburg Warren School District36017.1
Warren Central IntermediateVicksburg Warren School District35314.111%11%
Bovina ElementaryVicksburg Warren School District34015.560%54%

100.0% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Mississippi’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

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Median rent of $875 takes 14% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.1 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
14.2%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.1×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$875
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$157,300
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income2.13Bottom 19%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate67.9%Bottom 26%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3646,866Top 23%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$116$875Bottom 34%of 26,6182024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$38,807$157,300Bottom 29%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income14.2%Bottom 25%of 26,4702024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate24.9%Top 19%of 33,0282024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
7/ 100
Ranks 5379 of 5,428 published city profiles

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 0% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 0.1 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
3
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
0.1
Bottom 8% nationally
Year over year
−70%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Vicksburg, MS, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 93°F and January a low of 38°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 53.4 inches.

30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station TALLULAH VICKSBURG AP, 14.2 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND6.0"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation53.4"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low38°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high93°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing35°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today.

Physical risk

29 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are drought, inland flooding and tornado.

DroughtHigh
HailHigh
TornadoModerate
Strong windModerate
LandslideModerate
Ice stormModerate
HurricaneModerate
EarthquakeModerate
LightningModerate
Inland floodingModerate
Cold waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: heat wave, wildfire, winter weather.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Warren County records 22.3 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, higher than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 26.0 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 10.8 per 100,000 residents in Warren County.

Homicide
22.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
26.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
10.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
15.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Warren County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 39183 rather than 39183 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes and full cost of living
No public source publishes either with national coverage and a method open enough to check. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 45 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers IntlJAN45 mi8,500 ft
Greenville Mid-DeltaGLH71 mi8,001 ft
Alexandria IntlAEX128 mi9,352 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

39183 vs Vicksburg

How this ZIP area compares with Vicksburg as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

39183
Vicksburg
Median household income
$73,946
vs
$45,781
Per capita income
$36,972
vs
$27,526
Population density
44/sq mi
vs
624/sq mi
Median home value
$157,300
vs
$125,900
Median gross rent
$875
vs
$820
Homeownership rate
67.9%
vs
55.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher
28.9%
vs
27.1%
Poverty rate
22.3%
vs
26.8%
Median age
40.1
vs
38.8

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.