Hinds County area

Population and density of Hinds County

The Census Bureau estimates that 211,888 people lived in Hinds County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #340 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #2 of 82 in Mississippi. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 227,748, the population has declined by 15,860 (−7%), compared with −0.2% for Mississippi as a whole.

With 869.8 square miles of land, that is 244 people per square mile (94 per km²), placing Hinds County #581 nationally for density and #3 in Mississippi. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Mississippi median is 43. Put another way, there are about 2.6 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 Hinds County

9 incorporated places lie at least partly in Hinds County. Together they are home to 184,994 people (87.3%); the other 26,894 (12.7%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Jackson city, with 140,700 residents in the county (the city extends into 2 other counties). Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Terry town grew fastest since then (+18.9%).

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

Metropolitan area

Hinds County is a central county of the Jackson, MS Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 8 county equivalents have 609,847 residents on 6,014.3 square miles of land; Hinds County accounts for 14.5% of the land and 34.7% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #36 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #97 by population. It belongs to the Jackson-Vicksburg-Brookhaven, MS Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

24 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Hinds County; 21 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

390413905639058390593906639071391543917039174391753920139202392033920439206392093921039211392123921339216392173926939272

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 Hinds County

Hinds County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents. It has more land than 5 of them. The largest neighbor is Yazoo County (922.3 mi²) and the smallest is Claiborne County (487.4 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Hinds County forms a block of 5,135.1 mi² of land, of which it holds 16.9%.

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

Hinds County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.2 times as much. Mississippi’s county land could hold about 54 areas the size of Hinds County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 29.5 miles (47.5 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 Hinds County?

Hinds County has more land than 2,282 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 Hinds County at #1,034 nationally by total area, 94 places farther from the top than its land rank. Other county equivalents gain more area when their water measurements are included.

Its water share is 0.8%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.3 percentage points lower. 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 Hinds 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.