Town · Walthall County, Mississippi

Tylertown, Mississippi

Tylertown is a town in Walthall County, Mississippi, part of the McComb, MS metro area. It has 2,024 residents. Tylertown, Mississippi has a quality-of-life score of 3 out of 100 (very low), ranking #15,232 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Mississippi it ranks #145 of 194 cities and towns. It ranks best on job growth (high), property crime rate (low) and drinking water violations (low). It ranks worst on average weekly wage (low), high school diploma or higher (low) and mental health providers (low).

3Very low

Quality-of-life score: #15,232 of 15,651 cities and towns
Mississippi: #145 of 194 in MS
Population: 2,024 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 617.2 /mi²
FIPS code: 2875160

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 72 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.

Safety31#10,749/15,637
Economy4#14,974/15,631
Housing48#7,837/14,977
Health3#15,166/15,609
Healthcare2#15,274/15,650
Environment43#8,814/15,453
Education12#13,790/15,649
Infrastructure3#15,252/15,650
Community9#14,267/15,651
Leisure & amenities8#14,330/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Tylertown, Mississippi ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Walthall 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

Job growth · high3.4%
95/100Mississippi -0.2%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataWalthall County value
Property crime rate · low439 /100k
92/100Mississippi 1,264 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationWalthall County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Mississippi 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWalthall County value
New business applications · high18.3 /1k
84/100Mississippi 17.8 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauWalthall County value
Social associations · high13.0 /10k
82/100Mississippi 12.6 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWalthall County value
Students per teacher · low12.4×
79/100Mississippi 13.4×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsWalthall County value

Weaknesses

Average weekly wage · low$753
0/100Mississippi $1,024United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsWalthall County value
High school diploma or higher · low78.9%
1/100Mississippi 87.2%United States 89.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Mental health providers · low22 /100k
1/100Mississippi 243 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWalthall County value
Access to exercise opportunities · low21.4%
1/100Mississippi 58.2%United States 84.5%2022 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWalthall County value
Physical inactivity · high41.9%
2/100Mississippi 35.7%United States 26.5%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Adult obesity · high47.0%
2/100Mississippi 42.6%United States 38.2%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,845 (2015-2019) → 2,024 (2020-2024)
+9.7%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
45.6% (2015-2019) → 31.3% (2020-2024)
−14 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Poverty rateWorsening
25.0% (2015-2019) → 34.2% (2020-2024)
+9.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
62.1% (2015-2019) → 71.1% (2020-2024)
+9 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
19.1% (2015-2019) → 10.7% (2020-2024)
−8.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
High school diploma or higherWorsening
86.5% (2015-2019) → 78.9% (2020-2024)
−7.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%

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, Tylertown, Mississippi improved on 1 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 10 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.

Improved1

Uninsured−8.4 points19.1% → 10.7%

Declined1

High school+−7.6 points86.5% → 78.9%

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Tylertown, Mississippi between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	19.6 min2015-2019	25.6 min2020-2024	+6.0 min	Within the margin of error	7%
Bachelor's degree or higher	18.0%2015-2019	17.9%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	27%
Broadband subscriptions	62.1%2015-2019	71.1%2020-2024	+9 points	Within the margin of error	55%
Child poverty rate	38.8%2015-2019	35.9%2020-2024	−2.9 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Effective property tax rate	0.53%2015-2019	0.69%2020-2024	+0.2 points	Within the margin of error	4%
High school diploma or higher	86.5%2015-2019	78.9%2020-2024	−7.6 points	Declined	3%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4972015-2019	0.5092020-2024	+0.011	Within the margin of error	41%
Poverty rate	25.0%2015-2019	34.2%2020-2024	+9.3 points	Within the margin of error	5%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	28.5%2015-2019	24.2%2020-2024	−4.3 points	Within the margin of error	80%
Rent-burdened households	45.6%2015-2019	31.3%2020-2024	−14 points	Within the margin of error	88%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	19.1%2015-2019	10.7%2020-2024	−8.4 points	Improved	94%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 10944 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 Tylertown, Mississippi five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Tylertown, 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, Tylertown, Mississippi itself moved −4 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

2,024 residents (±374)

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

630 households (±138)

Tylertown, Mississippi
Mississippi share

Under $25k47%†298
$25k–50k16%†99
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

630 households (±138)

Tylertown, Mississippi
Mississippi share

Own59%370
Rent41%†260

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (−13.1 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

600 workers (±160)

Tylertown, Mississippi
Mississippi share

Drive alone73%436
Carpool13%†75
Public transit0.0%0

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the McComb, MS

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 Walthall County, the county holding most of Tylertown's residents.

Walthall County has 205 employer establishments, 148 for every 10,000 residents (0.60× the US rate of 248; 0.72× Mississippi's), with 1,985 paid employees at an average annual pay of $36,027. The Census Bureau also counts 1,225 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 205; 1,225 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 148; US 248 · Mississippi 205
Paid employees: 1,985
Average annual pay: $36,027; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	19	13.7	0.89×About typical	195	$51,892	133
Religious organizations	18	13	2.35×More than typical	77	$15,701	—
Restaurants and other eating places	13	9.4	0.51×Fewer than typical	130	$14,162	4
Truck transportation	11	8	1.57×More than typical	179	$24,302	89
Ambulatory health care services	9	6.5	0.31×Too few to compare	52	$43,692	70
Foundation, structure and building exterior contractors	9	6.5	2.07×Too few to compare	137	$50,876	30
Limited-service restaurants	9	6.5	0.81×Too few to compare	98	$15,327	3
Gasoline stations	8	5.8	1.78×Too few to compare	48	$23,375	—
General merchandise stores	7	5.1	2.86×Too few to compare	50	$20,420	8
Lessors of real estate	7	5.1	0.41×Too few to compare	18	$14,722	54
Fabricated metal product manufacturing	5	3.6	2.26×Too few to compare	67	$70,701	3
Individual and family services	5	3.6	1.29×Too few to compare	182	$20,115	17

Rank places for an industry Open Walthall County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 13,827 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

In FY2026, an estimated $1,040 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Tylertown, Mississippi: $0.51 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $1,040; +676% vs FY2025
Per resident: $0.51; US $1,994
Sole-source: 100%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

U.S. Coast Guard$1,03299%
Department of the Army$60.805.8%

Top recipients

HYDROCORE CONCEPTS LLC$1,093100%
BRIGADE MANUFACTURING, INC.-$53.410.0%

Spending by fiscal year

19.9KFY2017
24.6KFY2018
42.5KFY2019
9.4KFY2020
-6KFY2021
316.1FY2022
1.3KFY2023
88.3FY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Other electrical equipment and component manufacturing · 3359$1,03299%
Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing · 3345$60.805.8%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Tylertown, Mississippi, so they do not add up across cities.

Tylertown, Mississippi's figures are part of those of Walthall County, MS ($94.2K in FY2026), never added to them: 1.1% of that total.

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

See federal money in Walthall 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.

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

House

Michael GuestR-MS-3 · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 1.3%

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.

Walthall County2100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

McComb, MS1

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
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
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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