Yazoo City, Mississippi
Area Profile
10,219 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Yazoo City, in Yazoo County.
How this area ranks
Data updated · 14 sourcesEmployment conditions sit below most comparable cities measured: unemployment is 5.2% and the Opportunity signal places Yazoo City in the bottom 1%. The unemployment rate is published for Yazoo County, MS, which contains Yazoo City, rather than for Yazoo City alone.
In the public schools here, 15% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 19.4 students for every teacher.
Rent takes 34% of renter income here, above the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 1.9 times what its owners earn.
These sentences are written by fixed rules from the measurements below — a statement appears because a number crossed a stated threshold, and the values behind it are stored with it. No figure anywhere on this site is invented, estimated or inferred to fill a gap. How this works.
At a glance
Jobs & opportunity
Unemployment across Yazoo County, MS, which contains Yazoo City, is 5.2% — higher than in all but 19% of the 4,226 measured US cities.
Employment across Yazoo County, MS, which contains Yazoo City, fell 2.5% over the past year, to 7,464 employed residents.
Median household income of $28,157 is lower than in 97% of measured US cities.
| Metric | Value | Compared nationally | Source period |
|---|---|---|---|
| Income of new arrivalsYazoo County, MS’s figurefiling years 2022–2023 | $40,629 | 1st percentileof 4,101 | filing years 2022–2023 |
| Income of those who leftYazoo County, MS’s figurefiling years 2022–2023 | $39,212 | 1st percentileof 4,101 | filing years 2022–2023 |
| Median household income ±$4,4262024 ACS 5-Year | $28,157 | Bottom 3%of 29,223 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Per capita income ±$5,9522024 ACS 5-Year | $20,902 | Bottom 10%of 31,420 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Poverty rate ±8%2024 ACS 5-Year | 45.6% | Bottom 4%of 31,773 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Average commute ±4.3 min2024 ACS 5-Year | 24.4 min | Top 38%of 31,543 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Bachelor's degree or higher ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year | 13.4% | Bottom 30%of 31,919 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Drove alone to work ±8%2024 ACS 5-Year | 80.0% | 59th percentileof 31,433 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| EmploymentYazoo County, MS’s figureJuly 2026 | 7,464 | Bottom 1%of 4,226 | July 2026 |
| Employment change (3 years)Yazoo County, MS’s figureJuly 2026 | −6.2% | Bottom 2%of 4,226 | July 2026 |
| Employment change (year over year)Yazoo County, MS’s figureJuly 2026 | −2.5% | Bottom 13%of 4,226 | July 2026 |
| Labor forceYazoo County, MS’s figureJuly 2026 | 7,872 | 1st percentileof 4,226 | July 2026 |
| Labor force participation ±6%2024 ACS 5-Year | 67.7% | Bottom 22%of 31,513 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Mean annual wageJackson, MS Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS | $53,990 | Bottom 4%of 3,729 | 2025 OEWS |
| Median annual wageJackson, MS Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS | $42,850 | Bottom 3%of 3,729 | 2025 OEWS |
| Public transit to work ±0.7%2024 ACS 5-Year | 0.0% | 1st percentileof 31,433 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Unemployment change (year over year)Yazoo County, MS’s figureJuly 2026 | −0.8% | Top 17%of 4,226 | July 2026 |
| Unemployment rateYazoo County, MS’s figureJuly 2026 | 5.2% | Bottom 19%of 4,226 | July 2026 |
| Worked from home ±0.7%2024 ACS 5-Year | 0.6% | 18th percentileof 31,433 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
Median household income, successive ACS releases
Largest occupations — Jackson, MS
| Occupation | People employed | Median annual wage |
|---|---|---|
| Retail Salespersons | 8,770 | $29,070 |
| Registered Nurses | 8,700 | $82,630 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | 8,460 | $22,630 |
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | 7,800 | $23,130 |
| Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers | 6,590 | $58,100 |
| Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand | 5,890 | $36,910 |
Searches the 40 largest occupations here that have a published wage.
Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Yazoo County, MS, which contains this city.
15% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 14% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.
There are 19.4 students for every full-time teacher across 5 public schools, more than in most measured places.
| School | District | Students | Per teacher | Math | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McCoy Elementary School | MS Achievement SD Of Yazoo City | 844 | 28.1 | 9% | 9% |
| Yazoo City High School | MS Achievement SD Of Yazoo City | 531 | 19.0 | 17% | 11% |
| Woolfolk Middle School | MS Achievement SD Of Yazoo City | 449 | 44.9 | 13% | 11% |
| Yazoo County High School | Yazoo County School District | 400 | 11.4 | 17% | 22% |
| Yazoo County Middle School | Yazoo County School District | 258 | 10.3 | 32% | 25% |
| Yazoo City Voc Complex | MS Achievement SD Of Yazoo City | 0 | — | — | — |
| Alternative Learning Center | MS Achievement SD Of Yazoo City | 0 | — | — | — |
99.4% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with, not how the schools perform, so it is shown and not scored.
Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data, placed by ZIP code — which schools are in this place, not which one a particular address is zoned for. A dash in a proficiency column is a gap in the federal file, not a bad result. Proficiency is measured against Mississippi’s own standard, so it is ranked within state. How to read school figures.
Housing & affordability
How it’s calculated — housing affordability →Prices for everything a household buys run about 10% below the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 89.8, against 100 for the nation. Nationally, housing drives most of the spread between places in this index; other goods vary far less.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s house price index for the Jackson, MS Metro Area is up 29% over five years, and up 1.8% over the last year. It follows repeat sales of the same homes, so it measures price change rather than which homes happened to sell.
Homeowners here who pay a tax bill pay a median of $1,556 a year in real estate taxes, about 1.51% of the median home value.
HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $984, some 28% above the $767 tenants already here pay.
At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $984 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $39,400 a year, about 140% of the median household income here of $28,157.
The typical renter household here spends 34% of its income on rent, above the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $767 a month.
A median home at $103,000 costs 1.9 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $53,625, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.
Prices here run about 10% below the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.
Published for the Jackson, MS Metro Area as a whole. Prices are regional — people shop, commute and rent across a metropolitan area rather than within a city boundary — so this describes the cost of living around this place better than a figure drawn to its own limits would.
The figures above are measured against Yazoo City’s median household income of $28,157, which describes the place rather than you. Enter your own and the ratio is recomputed against it. It stays in this browser.
| Metric | Value | Compared nationally | Source period |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost of living indexthe Jackson, MS Metro Area’s figure2023 | 89.8 | Top 6%of 3,700 | 2023 |
| Home price change (1 year)the Jackson, MS Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2 | +1.8% | 32nd percentileof 4,154 | 2026 Q2 |
| Home price change (5 years)the Jackson, MS Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2 | +29.3% | 15th percentileof 4,154 | 2026 Q2 |
| Home price change (10 years)the Jackson, MS Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2 | +51.0% | 3rd percentileof 4,154 | 2026 Q2 |
| Home price to income ±0.92024 ACS 5-Year | 1.9 | Top 30%of 26,815 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Homeownership rate ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year | 33.0% | 3rd percentileof 31,717 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Housing units ±2992024 ACS 5-Year | 4,865 | 88th percentileof 32,177 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Market rent, one bedroomFY2026 | $750 | Top 4%of 4,072 | FY2026 |
| Market rent, three bedroomFY2026 | $1,209 | Top 3%of 4,072 | FY2026 |
| Market rent, two bedroomFY2026 | $984 | Top 7%of 4,072 | FY2026 |
| Median gross rent ±$1052024 ACS 5-Year | $767 | Top 24%of 23,120 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Median home value ±$16,9712024 ACS 5-Year | $103,000 | 20th percentileof 29,111 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Median property taxes ±$3392024 ACS 5-Year | $1,556 | 44th percentileof 26,440 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Owner household income ±$24,2952024 ACS 5-Year | $53,625 | Bottom 15%of 27,548 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Property tax rate ±0.41%2024 ACS 5-Year | 1.51% | 78th percentileof 20,543 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Rent as a share of income ±11%2024 ACS 5-Year | 34.3% | Bottom 22%of 22,950 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Seasonal and second homes ±752024 ACS 5-Year | 50 | 82nd percentileof 32,330 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year | 1.0% | 62nd percentileof 31,895 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year | 16.8% | 83rd percentileof 31,769 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Vacant housing units ±2372024 ACS 5-Year | 865 | 94th percentileof 32,330 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
These measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with. They compare housing cost with local earnings only: transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not in them. How to read affordability, the two rent figures and the cost-of-living index.
Growth & development
How it’s calculated — growth →Development Momentum
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.
Population has fallen 6% since 2020, to 9,913 in 2024.
New construction is predominantly single-family: of 14 units permitted over the past twelve months, none were in buildings of five or more homes.
Federal tax returns show Yazoo County, which contains Yazoo City, lost about 0.4% of its residents through moves within the US in the most recent year, counting those who arrived against those who left. Households that moved in reported an average income of $40,629, close to the $39,212 of households that moved out.
At 1.4 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US cities.
Population, annual estimates
People moving in and out
Where newcomers came from
- Hinds County, MS 130 people · 20% of arrivals
- Madison County, MS 125 people · 19% of arrivals
Where people who left went
- Madison County, MS 153 people · 21% of departures
- Hinds County, MS 118 people · 16% of departures
- Rankin County, MS 46 people · 6.3% of departures
Based on the address on federal tax returns, compared with the same filers a year earlier. It counts people who file, and sees a move only when the address on a return changes. Domestic moves only: people arriving from abroad are left out. This is the figure for Yazoo County, MS. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.
Housing units permitted per year
Weather & climate
6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 94°F and January a low of 39°F.
Normal annual precipitation is 60.4 inches.
Precipitation
| Metric | Value | Source period |
|---|---|---|
| Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals | 60.4" | 1991-2020 Normals |
| Annual snowfall1991-2020 Normals | 0.1" | 1991-2020 Normals |
| Average January low1991-2020 Normals | 39°F | 1991-2020 Normals |
| Average July high1991-2020 Normals | 94°F | 1991-2020 Normals |
| Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals | 6 | 1991-2020 Normals |
| Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals | 36°F | 1991-2020 Normals |
Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. How to read climate and air quality.
Physical risk
The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are cold wave, tornado and inland flooding, with cold wave alone responsible for 26% of it. Cold wave and inland flooding are independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large those hazards are.
Low or minimal exposure: lightning, cold wave, heat wave, winter weather, inland flooding, wildfire, avalanche, tsunami, volcanic activity, coastal flooding.
Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.
These are deaths, not offenses — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.
Yazoo County has a modeled homicide rate of about 25.9 per 100,000 residents a year, because the CDC suppresses counts this small, higher than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.
Firearm deaths of all intents run at 46.5 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.
Drug overdose deaths run at about 10.9 per 100,000 residents in Yazoo County.
Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides, so the firearm figure and the homicide figure above it count some of the same deaths twice over. They overlap and should not be added together.
Death rates are crude rates — deaths divided by population, not adjusted for age — except where a count was too small for the CDC to publish and it modeled the rate, which the card marks. They come from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC by county and not below it. So they describe the county around Yazoo City (Yazoo County) rather than Yazoo City itself. They are shown and not scored. How to read death rates.
What this profile does not cover
Each of these is absent for a reason, not by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them; the weighting is on the methodology page.
- Reported crime
- Offenses reported to police are published by department rather than by town, so AreaProfile shows a rate only on city profiles, and only where that city’s department submitted every month of a year. Either no municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — or its department did not report every month of the year. Either way 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.
- Air quality
- The EPA publishes an air-quality index only where a monitor sits. There is none in this county, and a modeled value would be a different kind of number from the measured ones everywhere else on this page.
- Taxes
- Income and sales taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Property taxes are shown in the housing section but are not part of the score. The cost-of-living index above is a price level for all consumption, not a household budget, and it excludes taxes. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
- Anything about a specific address
- Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house.
Access
2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers Intl at 43 miles.
| Metric | Value | Compared nationally | Source period |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broadband access ±7%2024 ACS 5-Year | 75.0% | Bottom 12%of 31,588 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Distance to major airportNASR current cycle | 43 mi | Bottom 17%of 4,226 | NASR current cycle |
| Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle | 2 | Bottom 8%of 4,226 | NASR current cycle |
| No internet access ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year | 14.7% | Bottom 22%of 31,588 | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Airport | Code | Distance | Longest runway |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers Intl | JAN | 43 mi | 8,500 ft |
| Greenville Mid-Delta | GLH | 54 mi | 8,001 ft |
| Golden Triangle Rgnl | GTR | 113 mi | 8,003 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.
Customize your score
What matters to you?
Choose what you weight most heavily. Nothing is saved to an account — your preferences stay in this browser, and the Area Score never changes.
Select one or more priorities to see how this location scores against them.
Other cities in Jackson, MS
Same metropolitan area, measured the same way| City | County | Population | Area Score | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson | Hinds County | 146,631 | 49 | Jackson vs Yazoo City |
| Madison | Madison County | 27,946 | 73 | Madison vs Yazoo City |
| Pearl | Rankin County | 27,737 | 67 | Pearl vs Yazoo City |
| Clinton | Hinds County | 27,195 | 62 | |
| Brandon | Rankin County | 25,542 | 75 | |
| Ridgeland | Madison County | 24,587 | 66 | |
| Byram | Hinds County | 12,799 | 54 | |
| Canton | Madison County | 10,811 | 61 | |
| Flowood | Rankin County | 10,587 | 70 |
Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.
Similar places
Matched on AreaProfile signals, not geographyCompare
Put Yazoo City side by side with a similar place.
Moving to Yazoo City from somewhere else?
You get the difference in prices, rent and weather, and the income that would keep pace.
Data & methodology
| Used for | Source | Source period |
|---|---|---|
| Access | Federal Aviation Administration Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service | NASR current cycle |
| Physical risk | Federal Emergency Management Agency National Risk Index | National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0) |
| Demographics, Income | Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division U.S. Population Migration Data (county to county) | filing years 2022–2023 |
| Climate | NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly) | 1991-2020 Normals |
| Housing | U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional price parities and county personal income | 2023 |
| Jobs | U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics | 2025 OEWS |
| Jobs | U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Local Area Unemployment Statistics | July 2026 |
| Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, Jobs | U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File) | 2024 ACS 5-Year |
| Development | U.S. Census Bureau Building Permits Survey | 12 months ending July 2026 |
| Demographics | U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program | July 1, 2024 estimate |
| Safety | U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics Provisional county-level mortality by intent | March 2025 to February 2026; May 2025 to April 2026 |
| Schools | U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments | 2018-19 school year; 2024-25 school year |
| Housing | U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research Fair Market Rents | FY2026 |
| Housing | U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (traditional, all-transactions) | 2026 Q2 |
| Current conditions | NOAA National Weather Service National Weather Service current conditions | Live observation, read when the page opens |
Profile recalculated October 8, 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 every source with how often each updates.
ZIP codes in Yazoo City
1 ZIP areaEvery ZIP area in Yazoo City with census figures of its own, largest first.
| ZIP | Population | Median household income | Median home value | Area Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39194 | 18,714 | $32,260 | $130,200 | 39 |