TulaMS
Home to 123 people, the town was settled in 1889.
Is Tula a good place to live?
Among 102 Mississippi towns, just one has a higher age of the median resident than Tula. Tula has fewer than 1,000 residents, too few for fair grades; the figures below are still real.
123 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
Moving to Tula: who provides what
Tula is unincorporated, so Lafayette County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Tula.
More than half of Tula’s working residents commute to Oxford
The top destinations are Oxford (53%), Tupelo (4%) and New Albany (2%). The median commute is under 15 miles.
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
A smaller share of adults sleep under 7 hours in Tula than in most of Mississippi or the rest of the country
Tula: 15% of adults report frequent mental distress. In Tula, 28% of adults get no exercise outside work, below the Mississippi town median (36%) but above the median of U.S. towns (25%). Among adults in the town, 31% feel lonely and 12% worry about having enough food. Against the Mississippi average, Tula comes out ahead on 12 CDC measures out of 31, and behind on 2.
| Tula | Mississippi towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 39% | 36% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 37% | 33% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 24% | 14% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 18% | 17% |
| What stands out | Tula | MS |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 8.3% | 18.5% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 11.6% | 22.4% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.5% | 7.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Tula faces a moderate natural-hazard risk, led by cold waves
The risk rating from FEMA for Tula comes to 40 of 100, against 58 of 100 in Mississippi’s towns and 44 of 100 across U.S. towns. FEMA puts just over a quarter of the town’s expected hazard losses down to cold waves, and 25% to inland flooding. Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 60% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
0% of Tula is conserved land
2.0 miles of trail. Only 4 of the 88 Mississippi towns we compare have a higher trail density than Tula.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Tula
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Tula
About 0 of every 100 Tula residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Mississippi.
100% of working residents leave Tula for work
Where Tula’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Tula
Census-designated place in Mississippi, United States
Tula is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Lafayette County, Mississippi, United States. Tula is located on Mississippi Highway 331 7.5 miles (12.1 km) west-southwest of Toccopola. Tula is a name either (sources vary) derived from the Chickasaw language meaning "rock", or a transfer from Tula, in Russia. Per the 2020 Census, the population was 197.
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- Area
- 3.8 sq mi
- Elevation
- 404 ft
Questions about Tula
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Tula, MS a good place to live?
Tula has fewer than 1,000 residents, too few for fair grades; the figures below are still real.