Tchula is a town in Holmes County, Mississippi, United States.
[4] In the 1960s most residents were farmworkers; the properties they worked on belonged to people living in other communities in the area.
Mississippi columnist Sid Salter stated that the Tchula area had "Some of the best farmland in America" and "some of the most successful plantations".
She was a Republican, and the community hoped this would convince George W. Bush, the President of the United States, to provide additional funding.
[3] By 2015 many of the jobs in the area had vanished, partly due to increased use of machines in agriculture.
Mississippi Highway 12 leads southeast from Tchula 11 miles (18 km) to Lexington, the Holmes County seat.
[2] As of the 2020 United States Census, there were 1,652 people, 735 households, and 400 families residing in the town.
In 2010, Tchula had the fifth-lowest median household income of all places in the United States with a population over 1,000.
The town of Tchula is served by the Holmes County School District.