Mississippi Population
Mississippi (U.S. state abbreviation is 'MS') is the southern state of United States, bordered Alabama to the east, Arkansas and Louisiana to the west, Gulf of Mexico to the south, Tennessee to the north. Mississippi population in 2021 is estimated to be 2.9 million, ranks 34th populous state in US. Its area is 48,430 sq miles (125,443 sq km), 32nd largest by area rank in United States. The Mississippi state was named after the Mississippi River, Originates from the Ojibwa(Chippewa) Indian word 'misi-ziibi' meaning 'great river'. Mississippi is the state capital and top other mississippi cities are Gulfport, Southaven, Hattiesburg and Biloxi. Mockingbird is the state bird of Mississippi, the popular places of Mississippi are Ship Island, Gulf Islands National Seashore, Hattiesburg Zoo and Natchez Trace Parkway.
Image Source: People gathering at Mississippi River Boating
Year | Population | % Change |
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2010 | 2,970,536 | |
2011 | 2,978,470 | 0.27 |
2012 | 2,983,767 | 0.18 |
2013 | 2,988,797 | 0.17 |
2014 | 2,990,623 | 0.06 |
2015 | 2,988,693 | -0.06 |
2016 | 2,988,298 | -0.01 |
2017 | 2,989,663 | 0.05 |
2018 | 2,986,530 | -0.10 |
2019* | 2,982,648 | -0.13 |
2020* | 2,979,362 | -0.11 |
2021* | 2,976,376 | -0.10 |
Mississippi Population by Race & Groups
Stats of Mississippi Population by Race & Ethnic Groups, 58.3% are White Americans, 37.3% are Black Americans, 2.9% are Hispanic/Latino, around 1% are Asians, 0.4% are AIAN.
In Mississippi state 1.2 millions are Black Americans which is the third largest African American population by state race percentage after Virgin Islands and District of Columbia, 1.7 million are whites, AIAN are 13,258 people, 73 are Navajo's, 59 are Chippewa, 770 are Cherokee and 13 are Sioux trible groups.
NHPI are 597 people, out of these 154 are Guamanian/Chamorro's, 163 are Native Hawaiians, 97 are Samoans and 183 are other Pacific Islanders.
Mississippi state Hispanic or Latino population is 88,261, out of these 1,813 are Cubans, 9,136 are Puerto Ricans and 55,790 are Mexicans is the largest.
Total Asian population is 28,859 in Mississippi, out of these 6,180 are Asian Indian, 230 Bangladeshi, 23 Burmese, 4,854 Chinese (except Taiwanese), 91 Taiwanese,
4,227 Filipino, 39 Hmong, 129 Indonesian, 1,211 Japanese, 333 Cambodian, 343 Laotian, 505 Thai, 382 Nepalese, 20 Okinawan, 447 Pakistani, 122 Sri Lankan, 1,984 Korean and 7,056 are Vietnamese.
Total Population | 2,986,220 | Percent |
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White | 1,755,471 | 58.79% |
Black or African American | 1,122,576 | 37.59% |
American Indian and Alaska Native | 13,258 | 0.444% |
Cherokee tribal grouping | 770 | 0.026% |
Chippewa tribal grouping | 59 | 0.002% |
Navajo tribal grouping | 73 | 0.002% |
Sioux tribal grouping | 13 | 0.000% |
Asian Population | 28,859 | 0.97% |
Asian Indian | 6,180 | 0.21% |
Chinese | 4,945 | 0.17% |
Filipino | 4,227 | 0.14% |
Japanese | 1,211 | 0.04% |
Korean | 1,984 | 0.07% |
Vietnamese | 7,056 | 0.24% |
Other Asian Population | 3,256 | |
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander | 597 | 0.02% |
Native Hawaiian | 163 | 0.005% |
Guamanian or Chamorro | 154 | 0.005% |
Samoan | 97 | 0.003% |
Other Pacific Islander | 183 | |
Some other race | 27,530 | |
Hispanic or Latino | 88,261 | 2.96% |
Mexican | 55,790 | 1.87% |
Puerto Rican | 9,136 | 0.31% |
Cuban | 1,813 | 0.06% |
Other Hispanic or Latino | 21,522 |
Top Cities of Mississippi
Rank | Cities | Population(2018) |
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1 | Jackson | 164,422 |
2 | Gulfport | 71,870 |
3 | Southaven | 54,944 |
Population Pyramid
Languages spoken in MS
Asian Indian languages include 449 speak Telugu, 160 Tamil, 284 Malayalam, Kannada, or other Dravidian languages, 732 Gujarati, 1,544 Hindi, 467 Urdu, 1,026 Punjabi, 360 Bengali, 1,294 Nepali, Marathi, or other Indic languages.
East and Mid Asia people speak 3,489 Chinese (including Mandarin, Cantonese), 32 Hmong, 903 Japanese, 1,756 Korean, 6,102 Vietnamese, 320 Khmer, 489 Thai, Lao, or other Tai-Kadai languages, 2,968 Tagalog (including Filipino) and 255 speak other languages of Asia.
Middleast language speakers are 2,828 Arabic, 171 Hebrew, 301 Persian (including Farsi, Dari).
African languages include 449 Amharic, Somali, or other Afro-Asiatic languages, 483 Yoruba, Twi, Igbo, or other languages of Western Africa, 170 Swahili or other languages of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa.
12 people speak Navajo, 120 Haitian, 3,860 Other Native languages of North America, 310 speak Ilocano, Samoan, Hawaiian, or other Austronesian languages.
European language speak are 590 Italian, 718 Portuguese, 2,986 German, 187 Greek, 656 Russian, 326 Polish, 43 Serbo-Croatian, 121 Ukrainian or other Slavic languages, 3,758 French (including Cajun), 676 Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages.
Languages | Population | Percentage |
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Speak only English | 2,686,128 | 96.09 |
Spanish Language | 67,282 | 2.41 |
European Language | 16,177 | 0.58 |
Asian Languages | 17,517 | 0.63 |
Other Languages | 8,261 | 0.30 |
Education
Education statistics of Mississippi state as per table below:
Total | Male | Female | ||
Population 18 to 24 years | 303,818 | 153,769 | 150,049 | |
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Less than high school graduate | 48,621 | 29,600 | 19,021 | |
High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 87,882 | 49,194 | 38,688 | |
Some college or associates degree | 148,747 | 67,730 | 81,017 | |
Bachelors degree or higher | 18,568 | 7,245 | 11,323 | |
Population 25 years and over | 1,956,101 | 924,116 | 1,031,985 | |
Less than 9th grade | 109,885 | 60,069 | 49,816 | |
9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 215,393 | 112,298 | 103,095 | |
High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 594,140 | 299,098 | 295,042 | |
Some college, no degree | 441,829 | 203,883 | 237,946 | |
Associates degree | 177,536 | 68,811 | 108,725 | |
Bachelors degree | 259,993 | 113,834 | 146,159 | |
Graduate or professional degree | 157,325 | 66,123 | 91,202 |
White | 1,191,438 | 574,065 | 617,373 | |
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High school graduate or higher | 1,040,010 | 492,494 | 547,516 | |
Bachelors degree or higher | 297,869 | 139,453 | 158,416 | |
Black or African | 679,253 | 304,904 | 374,349 | |
High school graduate or higher | 529,202 | 228,014 | 301,188 | |
Bachelors degree or higher | 100,904 | 31,804 | 69,100 | |
American Indian or Alaska Native alone | 7,786 | 3,781 | 4,005 | |
High school graduate or higher | 5,597 | 2,734 | 2,863 | |
Bachelors degree or higher | 816 | 424 | 392 | |
Asian | 19,596 | 8,785 | 10,811 | |
High school graduate or higher | 16,127 | 7,216 | 8,911 | |
Bachelors degree or higher | 7,819 | 3,676 | 4,143 | |
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander | 415 | 100 | 315 | |
High school graduate or higher | 404 | 95 | 309 | |
Bachelors degree or higher | 88 | 0 | 88 | |
Hispanic or Latino Origin | 46,947 | 27,599 | 19,348 | |
High school graduate or higher | 29,769 | 16,556 | 13,213 | |
Bachelors degree or higher | 6,432 | 2,910 | 3,522 |
Disability
As per 2017 census estimates, the Stastistics of disadvantage people in Mississippi state as per below:
Total civilian non-institutionalized population | 476,197 |
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Male | 227,282 |
Female | 248,915 |
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White | 295,271 |
Black or African American | 168,184 |
American Indian and Alaska Native alone | 2,894 |
Asian | 2,148 |
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander | 151 |
Some other race | 1,434 |
DISABILITY TYPE | |
With a hearing difficulty | 119,381 |
With a vision difficulty | 100,764 |
With a cognitive difficulty | 183,649 |
With an ambulatory difficulty | 276,721 |
With a self-care difficulty | 101,840 |
With an independent living difficulty | 179,356 |
Counties of Mississippi
Mississippi state is divided into 82 counties, Hinds is the populous County with 237,085, Harrison County with 206,650, DeSoto County with 182,001, Rankin County with 153,902 and Jackson County with 143,277.
County | Population 2017 | Population 2018 | % Change | Rank 2017 | Rank 2018 |
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Adams County | 31,337 | 31,192 | -0.5 | 27 | 27 |
Alcorn County | 37,203 | 36,925 | -0.7 | 20 | 20 |
Amite County | 12,444 | 12,326 | -0.9 | 64 | 64 |
Attala County | 18,482 | 18,365 | -0.6 | 51 | 51 |
Benton County | 8,286 | 8,271 | -0.2 | 76 | 76 |
Bolivar County | 31,895 | 31,333 | -1.8 | 25 | 26 |
Calhoun County | 14,525 | 14,436 | -0.6 | 58 | 59 |
Carroll County | 10,117 | 9,911 | -2 | 70 | 71 |
Chickasaw County | 17,189 | 17,171 | -0.1 | 54 | 54 |
Choctaw County | 8,272 | 8,278 | 0.1 | 77 | 75 |
Claiborne County | 9,053 | 9,002 | -0.6 | 73 | 73 |
Clarke County | 15,823 | 15,604 | -1.4 | 57 | 57 |
Clay County | 19,658 | 19,386 | -1.4 | 47 | 48 |
Coahoma County | 23,185 | 22,628 | -2.4 | 41 | 42 |
Copiah County | 28,548 | 28,543 | 0 | 31 | 32 |
Covington County | 19,045 | 18,853 | -1 | 49 | 49 |
DeSoto County | 178,914 | 182,001 | 1.7 | 3 | 3 |
Forrest County | 75,263 | 75,036 | -0.3 | 9 | 9 |
Franklin County | 7,779 | 7,788 | 0.1 | 78 | 78 |
George County | 23,973 | 24,250 | 1.2 | 39 | 39 |
Greene County | 13,538 | 13,586 | 0.4 | 61 | 61 |
Grenada County | 21,056 | 21,055 | 0 | 45 | 45 |
Hancock County | 47,020 | 47,334 | 0.7 | 16 | 16 |
Harrison County | 204,933 | 206,650 | 0.8 | 2 | 2 |
Hinds County | 240,033 | 237,085 | -1.2 | 1 | 1 |
Holmes County | 17,849 | 17,622 | -1.3 | 53 | 53 |
Humphreys County | 8,349 | 8,257 | -1.1 | 75 | 77 |
Issaquena County | 1,341 | 1,308 | -2.5 | 82 | 82 |
Itawamba County | 23,512 | 23,517 | 0 | 40 | 40 |
Jackson County | 142,369 | 143,277 | 0.6 | 5 | 5 |
Jasper County | 16,556 | 16,428 | -0.8 | 55 | 55 |
Jefferson County | 7,233 | 7,106 | -1.8 | 80 | 79 |
Jefferson Davis County | 11,321 | 11,234 | -0.8 | 66 | 66 |
Jones County | 68,312 | 68,461 | 0.2 | 10 | 10 |
Kemper County | 10,119 | 10,027 | -0.9 | 69 | 68 |
Lafayette County | 54,237 | 54,793 | 1 | 14 | 14 |
Lamar County | 61,426 | 62,447 | 1.7 | 11 | 11 |
Lauderdale County | 76,330 | 75,317 | -1.3 | 8 | 8 |
Lawrence County | 12,631 | 12,455 | -1.4 | 62 | 62 |
Leake County | 22,832 | 22,763 | -0.3 | 42 | 41 |
Lee County | 85,034 | 85,202 | 0.2 | 7 | 7 |
Leflore County | 29,324 | 28,919 | -1.4 | 29 | 29 |
Lincoln County | 34,320 | 34,205 | -0.3 | 23 | 23 |
Lowndes County | 59,189 | 58,930 | -0.4 | 12 | 12 |
Madison County | 104,632 | 105,630 | 1 | 6 | 6 |
Marion County | 25,103 | 24,715 | -1.5 | 38 | 38 |
Marshall County | 35,635 | 35,451 | -0.5 | 22 | 22 |
Monroe County | 35,852 | 35,564 | -0.8 | 21 | 21 |
Montgomery County | 10,175 | 10,023 | -1.5 | 68 | 69 |
Neshoba County | 29,393 | 29,125 | -0.9 | 28 | 28 |
Newton County | 21,424 | 21,443 | 0.1 | 44 | 44 |
Noxubee County | 10,732 | 10,535 | -1.8 | 67 | 67 |
Oktibbeha County | 49,675 | 49,599 | -0.2 | 15 | 15 |
Panola County | 34,141 | 34,178 | 0.1 | 24 | 24 |
Pearl River County | 55,239 | 55,387 | 0.3 | 13 | 13 |
Perry County | 12,030 | 11,931 | -0.8 | 65 | 65 |
Pike County | 39,602 | 39,563 | -0.1 | 19 | 19 |
Pontotoc County | 31,640 | 31,833 | 0.6 | 26 | 25 |
Prentiss County | 25,241 | 25,315 | 0.3 | 37 | 37 |
Quitman County | 7,236 | 7,051 | -2.6 | 79 | 80 |
Rankin County | 152,919 | 153,902 | 0.6 | 4 | 4 |
Scott County | 28,429 | 28,287 | -0.5 | 34 | 33 |
Sharkey County | 4,423 | 4,377 | -1 | 81 | 81 |
Simpson County | 26,942 | 26,758 | -0.7 | 35 | 35 |
Smith County | 16,081 | 16,002 | -0.5 | 56 | 56 |
Stone County | 18,624 | 18,717 | 0.5 | 50 | 50 |
Sunflower County | 26,146 | 25,735 | -1.6 | 36 | 36 |
Tallahatchie County | 14,145 | 13,987 | -1.1 | 60 | 60 |
Tate County | 28,660 | 28,759 | 0.3 | 30 | 30 |
Tippah County | 21,942 | 21,995 | 0.2 | 43 | 43 |
Tishomingo County | 19,577 | 19,454 | -0.6 | 48 | 47 |
Tunica County | 10,002 | 9,944 | -0.6 | 71 | 70 |
Union County | 28,466 | 28,606 | 0.5 | 33 | 31 |
Walthall County | 14,523 | 14,465 | -0.4 | 59 | 58 |
Warren County | 46,752 | 46,176 | -1.2 | 17 | 17 |
Washington County | 46,202 | 45,063 | -2.5 | 18 | 18 |
Wayne County | 20,416 | 20,298 | -0.6 | 46 | 46 |
Webster County | 9,757 | 9,788 | 0.3 | 72 | 72 |
Wilkinson County | 8,858 | 8,792 | -0.7 | 74 | 74 |
Winston County | 18,242 | 18,165 | -0.4 | 52 | 52 |
Yalobusha County | 12,474 | 12,392 | -0.7 | 63 | 63 |
Yazoo County | 28,478 | 28,248 | -0.8 | 32 | 34 |
References
1. Census Fact finder
2. Historical Population of States from 1790 to 1990
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