Alcorn County, Mississippi Eviction Risk: Very Low

Alcorn County, Mississippi eviction laws carries an average eviction-risk score of 2.3/10 (Very Low), placing it in the middle third of the state, with 38 Mississippi counties scoring higher and 43 scoring lower. For landlords and investors sizing up the market, that middle position reflects a county where operating conditions are workable but not uniformly predictable. Average rent runs $644 per month and rent burden sits at 26.5%, meaning a meaningful portion of tenants are stretched, a dynamic worth building into underwriting assumptions.

Across the county's 6 cities, risk scores range from 1.8 to 2.4, a narrower spread than many Mississippi counties but enough to matter when evaluating individual acquisitions. The county seat anchors the high end of that range, while smaller outlying communities cluster near the floor, giving buy-and-hold investors room to find lower-exposure markets within the same county lines.

The cities inside Alcorn County

Corinth, the county's largest city at a population of 14,323, scores 4/10, the highest risk reading in the county and the one most landlords will encounter given that the city accounts for the vast majority of the county's 17,659 total residents. Farmington, with a population of 2,312, comes in at 1.9/10, and Rienzi at 1.9/10. These three cities concentrate the bulk of the county's rental activity and represent the most relevant comparison points for investors pricing portfolio risk.

At the other end of the spectrum, Biggersville scores 1.8/10, the lowest in the county, followed by Glen and Kossuth, each at 1.8/10. These smaller communities carry lower eviction-risk readings, though their limited populations mean fewer available units and thinner tenant pools. The gap between Corinth and Biggersville is nearly a full point on a 10-point scale, which underscores how hyper-local risk is even within a single county boundary.

State-level laws that apply here

All landlords in Alcorn County operate under Mississippi state law, specifically Miss. Code § 89-8 (Landlord and Tenant). For non-payment of rent, Mississippi requires a 3-day notice before filing. A lease-violation cure notice runs 14 days, and a no-cause end-of-term notice requires 30 days. Understanding the Mississippi eviction process is straightforward by national standards, but timelines still add up: uncontested cases typically resolve in 30 to 60 days, while contested matters can run 60 to 120 days. For a full breakdown of what landlords pay at each stage, see the guide to Mississippi eviction costs, which covers the court filing fee range of $75 to $150, sheriff lockout fees of $30 to $120, and attorney fees that commonly run $500 to $2,500. Mississippi does not require just cause for eviction and state law preempts any local rent-control ordinance, meaning no Alcorn County municipality can cap rents or layer on additional eviction restrictions beyond the state baseline.

With a poverty rate of 20.6% and a renter share of 44.3% across the county, Alcorn County has a tenant base that skews economically vulnerable, making tenant screening and lease underwriting more consequential than the Low risk label alone might suggest. The city-by-city grid above shows where those pressures concentrate most.