With 238 people, Shuqualak is a city in Mississippi. The poverty rate is 66.9%, above the 12.5% national rate. That trails the Mississippi median by roughly 75%. Four-year degrees are less common here than nationally, at 15% of adults. 43% of homes are owner-occupied. The population has fallen 58% since 2000.
At a glance
Lower income
median household income $14,393, below the US median
US median: $82,259
Younger
median age 35.0
US median: 38.9
Less educated
15% hold a bachelor's degree
US average: 36%
Stable housing
home values roughly flat, inflation adjusted
US median home: $376,019
Unique to this place
What stands out about Shuqualak
What changed most since 1990
Homes owned by their occupants75.9% → 42.9%(−33.0 pts)US over the same years: +0.9 pts
Poverty rate37.1% → 66.9%(+29.8 pts)US over the same years: −0.8 pts
Black share53.7% → 78.6%(+24.9 pts)US over the same years: +0.2 pts
Shuqualak's population equals 2.4% of Noxubee County's. Its number of foreign-born residents equals 41% of the county's. Its number of households earning $100,000 or more equals 0.9% of the county's.
Shares are "alone or in combination": a person with both Medicare and Medicaid counts in each, so categories overlap and do not sum to 100%.
Section 09 · Service history
Veterans
Over time
Shuqualak, decade by decade
Shuqualak population, inflation-adjusted income and home value, education, and diversity by year
Year
Population
Median household income
Median home value
Bachelor's degree+
Diversity score
1990
544
$36,001
$81,362
13.7%
62.2
2000
562
$39,849
$68,676
9.5%
53.5
2010
501
$28,771
$81,567
15.1%
42.5
2020
399
$25,567
$50,057
8.0%
34.0
2024
238
$14,393
$81,900
15.1%
45.3
Census years come from the decennial census and the latest year from the American Community Survey, so part of any change between those two rows can reflect the different surveys. Dollar figures are adjusted for inflation to 2024 dollars; a figure ending in "+" was at the Census Bureau's reporting cap that year. The diversity score runs from 0 to 100; see how it's calculated.
