Coahoma County area

Population and density of Coahoma County

The Census Bureau estimates that 19,849 people lived in Coahoma County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,890 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #45 of 82 in Mississippi. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 21,387, the population has declined by 1,538 (−7.2%), compared with −0.2% for Mississippi as a whole.

With 553.1 square miles of land, that is 36 people per square mile (14 per km²), placing Coahoma County #1,855 nationally for density and #45 in Mississippi. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Mississippi median is 43. Put another way, there are about 18 acres of land per resident.

U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates. Estimates are revised each year and are not decennial census counts. Density divides the whole population by the whole county’s land area, so it describes an average, not how settlement is distributed within the county. Population sources and methods.

Cities and towns in Coahoma County

6 incorporated places lie at least partly in Coahoma County. Together they are home to 16,041 people (80.8%); the other 3,808 (19.2%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Clarksdale city, with 13,643 residents in the county.

Population: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 subcounty estimates, counting only the part of each place inside Coahoma County. Land: 2026 Census Gazetteer, for the whole place even where it extends into other counties. How communities are listed.

Metropolitan area

Coahoma County is a central county of the Clarksdale, MS Micropolitan Statistical Area. Coahoma County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the micro area has the same 553.1 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #400 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #517 by population. It belongs to the Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

11 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Coahoma County; 8 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

3861438617386263863138639386443864538720387403876738963

ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Lighter codes have less than half of their land in this county. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering Coahoma County

Coahoma County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents, including 1 in Arkansas. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Bolivar County (876.5 mi²) and the smallest is Quitman County (405 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Coahoma County forms a block of 4,322.5 mi² of land, of which it holds 12.8%.

How big is Coahoma County compared with U.S. states?

Coahoma County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.9 times as much. Mississippi’s county land could hold about 85 areas the size of Coahoma County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 23.5 miles (37.8 km) on each side. Real county shapes are rarely square, so this is a scale reference rather than a width or driving distance.

State figures are the sums of each state’s county-equivalent land measurements in the same Census release, so states and counties are compared on the same basis. Published state totals can differ slightly because of rounding. Compare all states · Counties bigger than entire states.

What stands out about Coahoma County?

Coahoma County has more land than 1,335 of the other 3,221 county equivalents in the dataset.

A median is the middle county-equivalent measurement, not the average of the largest and smallest. All three bars use the same linear scale. Very small areas may appear as a thin sliver; the labels retain their values.

Does including water change its rank?

Using land plus water places Coahoma County at #1,814 nationally by total area, 73 places closer to the top than its land rank. The water assigned to this geography moves it ahead of some county equivalents with more land.

Its water share is 5.1%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 4 percentage points higher. This describes the statistical geography’s land/water mix, not flood exposure or developable land.

Closest positions in the national land ranking

These entries sit immediately beside Coahoma County in the national ranking. They can be in different states and are not necessarily geographic neighbors.

Calculated from the same Census release as the area table. Total-area order uses original ALAND + AWATER; water shares and chart labels use published square miles. Calculation details.