Moving to Philadelphia: Pros, Cons & What to Know
Moving to Philadelphia means moving to the Neshoba County seat, a small east-central-Mississippi city with real, significant casino-resort employment and a genuinely important, honestly disclosed civil rights history.
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Learn morePearl River Resort as a real regional employer
Philadelphia is real, genuine home to Pearl River Resort, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians' casino-resort complex in nearby Choctaw, including two hotel-casinos, a golf club, and a water park -- a real, significant source of hospitality and gaming jobs (base record).
The town's real, documented civil rights history
Philadelphia is the site of the June 21, 1964 murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner during Freedom Summer -- history this record discloses accurately and respectfully, marked today by a 2013 historical marker near the site (base record).
A property tax rate above Mississippi's own statewide figure
Philadelphia's own 1.23% effective property tax rate runs notably above both the national and Mississippi statewide medians, though the resulting dollar tax bill stays modest given the area's low home prices (base record).
Affordable housing and Mississippi's low-tax structure
Philadelphia's own approximately $138,000 median home price, combined with Mississippi's flat 4.0% income tax and full retirement-income exemption, offsets the higher property-tax picture for many movers (base record).
Key takeaways
- Philadelphia is real, genuine home to Pearl River Resort, a significant regional casino-hospitality employer.
- Philadelphia's history includes the real, documented June 21, 1964 civil rights murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.
- Housing runs genuinely affordable (approximately $138,000), but the 1.23% property tax rate runs above both national and state medians.
- Mississippi's flat 4.0% income tax and full retirement-income exemption apply in Philadelphia as they do statewide.
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