City · Quitman County, Mississippi

Marks, Mississippi

Marks is a city in Quitman County, Mississippi. It has 1,377 residents. Marks, Mississippi has a quality-of-life score of 1 out of 100 (very low), ranking #15,540 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Mississippi it ranks #182 of 194 cities and towns. It ranks best on grocery stores (high), distance to an Amtrak station (low) and social associations (high). It ranks worst on food environment index (low), primary care shortage (high) and average weekly wage (low).

1Very low

Quality-of-life score: #15,540 of 15,651 cities and towns
Mississippi: #182 of 194 in MS
Population: 1,377 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,073.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 2845240

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 69 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety0#15,608/15,637
Economy1#15,503/15,631
Housing40#8,936/14,977
Health5#14,778/15,609
Healthcare1#15,482/15,650
Environment8#14,208/15,453
Education23#12,092/15,649
Infrastructure3#15,107/15,650
Community13#13,662/15,651
Leisure & amenities35#10,182/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Marks, Mississippi ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Quitman County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Grocery stores · high3.7 /10k
98/100Mississippi 1.3 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsQuitman County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · low5 mi
97/100Mississippi 27 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauQuitman County value
Social associations · high16.2 /10k
94/100Mississippi 12.6 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteQuitman County value
Public libraries · high1.8 /10k
89/100Mississippi 0.8 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesQuitman County value
New business applications · high18.8 /1k
86/100Mississippi 17.8 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauQuitman County value
Depression · low19.4%
85/100Mississippi 20.1%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate

Weaknesses

Food environment index · low0.0
0/100Mississippi 4.1United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteQuitman County value
Primary care shortage · high23.0
0/100Mississippi 16.2United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationQuitman County value
Average weekly wage · low$712
0/100Mississippi $1,024United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsQuitman County value
Dental care shortage · high22.0
0/100Mississippi 14.0United States 5.7Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationQuitman County value
Adult obesity · high51.0%
0/100Mississippi 42.6%United States 38.2%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Job growth · low-7.5%
0/100Mississippi -0.2%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataQuitman County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationFalling
1,754 (2015-2019) → 1,377 (2020-2024)
−21%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateImproving
49.0% (2015-2019) → 28.1% (2020-2024)
−21 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
53.9% (2015-2019) → 71.8% (2020-2024)
+18 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
13.5% (2015-2019) → 24.5% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Poverty rateImproving
27.2% (2015-2019) → 18.5% (2020-2024)
−8.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Unemployment rateImproving
16.6% (2015-2019) → 8.7% (2020-2024)
−7.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Marks, Mississippi improved on 3 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 9 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved3

Child poverty−21 points49.0% → 28.1%
Bachelor's++11 points13.5% → 24.5%
Broadband+18 points53.9% → 71.8%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Marks, Mississippi between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	27.5 min2015-2019	25.6 min2020-2024	−1.9 min	Within the margin of error	69%
Bachelor's degree or higher	13.5%2015-2019	24.5%2020-2024	+11 points	Improved	92%
Broadband subscriptions	53.9%2015-2019	71.8%2020-2024	+18 points	Improved	86%
Child poverty rate	49.0%2015-2019	28.1%2020-2024	−21 points	Improved	94%
Effective property tax rate	0.74%2015-2019	0.80%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	9%
High school diploma or higher	79.9%2015-2019	85.0%2020-2024	+5.1 points	Within the margin of error	82%
Home price to income ratio	2.4×2015-2019	3.0×2020-2024	+0.6×	Within the margin of error	39%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4432015-2019	0.4902020-2024	+0.047	Within the margin of error	18%
Median household income	$28,6982015-2019	$32,1322020-2024	+12%	Within the margin of error	19%
Poverty rate	27.2%2015-2019	18.5%2020-2024	−8.7 points	Within the margin of error	90%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	19.6%2015-2019	11.7%2020-2024	−7.9 points	Within the margin of error	94%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Marks, Mississippi five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Marks, Mississippi in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Marks, Mississippi itself moved −0.6 points in standing on average over the same 8 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,377 residents (±178)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

667 households (±102)

Marks, Mississippi
Mississippi share

Under $25k38%†254
$25k–50k26%†171
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

667 households (±102)

Marks, Mississippi
Mississippi share

Own66%440
Rent34%227

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

558 workers (±108)

Marks, Mississippi
Mississippi share

Drive alone81%452
Carpool12%†65
Public transit0.0%0

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Quitman County, the county holding most of Marks's residents.

Quitman County has 91 employer establishments, 162 for every 10,000 residents (0.65× the US rate of 248; 0.79× Mississippi's), with 573 paid employees at an average annual pay of $33,651. The Census Bureau also counts 508 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 91; 508 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 162; US 248 · Mississippi 205
Paid employees: 573
Average annual pay: $33,651; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Quitman County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Religious organizations	9	16	2.89×Too few to compare	20	$14,800	—
Lessors of real estate	6	10.7	0.87×Too few to compare	13	$17,769	24
Ambulatory health care services	5	8.9	0.43×Too few to compare	65	$38,708	16
General merchandise stores	5	8.9	5.04×Too few to compare	23	$28,000	—
Banks and credit unions	4	7.1	2.21×Too few to compare	28	$57,750	—
Gasoline stations	4	7.1	2.20×Too few to compare	16	$15,625	—
Individual and family services	4	7.1	2.55×Too few to compare	90	$22,011	6
Child day care services	3	5.3	2.19×Too few to compare	30	$26,300	23
Restaurants and other eating places	3	5.3	0.29×Too few to compare	58	$10,672	9
Accounting, tax preparation and payroll services	0	0	0.00×Too few to compare	0	—	11
Advertising, public relations and related services	0	0	0.00×Too few to compare	0	—	—
Amusement, gambling and recreation industries	0	0	0.00×Too few to compare	0	—	—

Rank places for an industry Open Quitman County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 5,611 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Marks is mostly in Quitman County.

See federal money in Quitman County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Marks, Mississippi is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Bennie G. ThompsonD-MS-2 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 3.9%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Quitman County1100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Quitman County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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