Louise, MS

ZIP code 39097 is assigned to Louise, MS, and falls within Humphreys County. Like every US postal code, it began as a mail-routing device rather than a geographic boundary — the US Postal Service groups delivery routes under a single code so carriers and sorting equipment can process mail efficiently. Today it also serves as a practical shorthand for the area itself: roughly 501 people live inside it.

At 9 residents per square mile spread over 58.843 square miles, 39097 reads as a rural area. It is a sparsely populated postal code, and density shapes almost everything else on this page — how people get to work, whether they own or rent, and what housing costs.

Household earnings are well below the national median. At $21,727, 39097 ranks among the lower-income postal codes, ahead of 0% of them. The US median for comparison is $70,109. Bear in mind that median income describes the midpoint household, not the average — it is not pulled upward by a handful of very high earners the way a mean would be.

Housing in 39097 costs below the national median. A typical home is valued at $114,100 against a US median of $207,500, and median gross rent runs $907 a month. The split between owning and renting is fairly even at 60.2% owner-occupied, which tends to indicate a mix of housing types rather than one dominant form.

The building stock is dominated by detached single-family houses, which account for 53.9% of housing units here. The median construction year is 1989, making the housing here from the later twentieth century.

The population skews older than the national median, with a median age of 50.7 against 42 nationally. Households average just 1.9 people, and 37.9% consist of one person living alone — a signature of areas with a lot of studio and one-bedroom stock.

Getting to work takes 22.1 minutes on average one way. The dominant mode is drove alone at 50.7% of workers.

Beyond addressing mail, 39097 does a lot of quiet administrative work. Retailers use it to calculate shipping and sales tax at checkout. Insurers use it to set premiums, since risk profiles vary geographically. Employers and marketers use it to define service areas. Government agencies use it to route benefits and organise reporting. If you have ever been asked for a postal code by a form that clearly does not intend to send you anything, this is why.

For anyone weighing a move, 39097 offers a compact profile of Louise: 501 residents, a median household income of $21,727, 9.6% of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher, and an unemployment rate of 25.6%. A handful of figures like these answer more relocation questions than most neighbourhood guides do.

One caution worth repeating: a postal code is not a neighbourhood. 39097 may cover parts of several distinct areas, and a single neighbourhood in Louise may be split across more than one code. Boundaries also shift as USPS adjusts delivery routes. Treat the figures here as describing a delivery area, which is what they actually measure.