Lincoln County, Mississippi Eviction Risk: Very Low

Lincoln County, Mississippi eviction laws carries an average eviction-risk score of 4/10, placing it in the Moderate tier and landing at rank 37 of 82 Mississippi eviction laws counties, meaning 36 counties carry higher risk and 45 are more landlord-friendly. For investors eyeing this market, that middle-of-the-pack position reflects a county where conditions are workable but not frictionless: average rent sits at $736, rent burden runs 28.9% of income, and a poverty rate of 26.9% signals meaningful tenant financial stress that can translate into collection and vacancy pressure over time.

The county's two tracked cities produce a score range of 2.5 to 4, which means the experience of operating here depends heavily on which market within Lincoln County a landlord actually targets. Risk is hyper-local, and a single county average can mask conditions that diverge sharply from one community to the next.

The cities inside Lincoln County

Brookhaven is the dominant market by far, with a population of 11,650 and a risk score of 4/10, matching the county average. Nearly all of Lincoln County's roughly 11,947 tracked residents are concentrated here, so Brookhaven eviction risk's dynamics effectively set the tone for the county's overall eviction-risk profile. Investors operating in Brookhaven should account for average rents and the tenant financial pressures that a 26.9% poverty rate implies.

Bogue Chitto, a much smaller community with a population of 297, scores 2.5/10, the lowest in the county and a notably more landlord-favorable reading. The gap between Bogue Chitto's 2.5 and Brookhaven's 4 illustrates how meaningfully risk can shift within a single county boundary. Landlords who underwrite to a county average without looking at city-level data may be misreading their actual exposure in either direction.

State-level laws that apply here

Under Mississippi state law, specifically Miss. Code SS 89-8 (Landlord and Tenant), landlords must provide a 3-day notice to quit for non-payment of rent, a 14-day notice for lease violations with an opportunity to cure, and a 30-day notice to terminate a tenancy at the end of a lease term. An uncontested case resolves in roughly 30 to 60 days; a contested case can run 60 to 120 days. Understanding the full Mississippi eviction laws eviction process before placing a tenant is essential, because the cost side adds up quickly: court filing fees range from $75 to $150, sheriff lockout fees from $30 to $120, and attorney fees commonly run $500 to $2,500 for a contested matter. Mississippi eviction costs are therefore highly variable depending on whether a tenant contests and how long proceedings extend.

Mississippi eviction laws does not require just cause to end a tenancy, and the state preempts any local rent-control ordinance, so landlords in Lincoln County face no local rent caps or cause-based eviction requirements. Source-of-income protections are also not in force under state law here.

With 45.4% of residents renting and a poverty rate of 26.9%, Lincoln County carries meaningful baseline risk that landlords should weigh city by city; the grid above breaks down scores for Brookhaven and Bogue Chitto individually.