ZIP 38720 vs ZIP 38767

This side-by-side compares ZIP 38720 (Alligator, MS) and ZIP 38767 (Rena Lara, MS) using the same Census ACS 5-Year table fields for both — no averages swapped in, no national proxies. ZIP 38720 has a population of 597 at 5 people per square mile, while ZIP 38767 has 77 at 14 per square mile. That difference in population size and density alone reshapes how every other metric should be interpreted — a higher-income ZIP with 1,200 residents behaves very differently from one with 45,000.

On income and education, ZIP 38720 reports a median household income of $62,639 against — in ZIP 38767, with per-capita income of $29,621 vs $15,141. The share of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher is 22.9% in 38720 and 0.0% in 38767. Poverty rate reads 18.3% vs 0.0%, and unemployment 7.5% vs 0.0% — these four fields alone drive most of the difference in the scorecard grades you will see for each ZIP.

Housing separates these two ZIPs further: median home value sits at $92,500 in 38720 versus — in 38767, with median rent of — and — per month respectively. Homeownership rate is 90.4% vs 100.0%. When reading the comparison table below, focus on paired metrics rather than single winners — a ZIP with lower home values and lower income is not strictly "worse" if rent-to-income ratios and commute times land in the same zone. Every value is pulled from the exact same ACS table so the two columns are genuinely comparable.