Itawamba County area

Population and density of Itawamba County

The Census Bureau estimates that 24,152 people lived in Itawamba County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,694 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #37 of 82 in Mississippi. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 23,857, the population has grown by 295 (+1.2%), compared with −0.2% for Mississippi as a whole.

With 532.8 square miles of land, that is 45 people per square mile (18 per km²), placing Itawamba County #1,646 nationally for density and #34 in Mississippi. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Mississippi median is 43. Put another way, there are about 14 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 Itawamba County

3 incorporated places lie at least partly in Itawamba County. Together they are home to 6,256 people (25.9%); the other 17,896 (74.1%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Fulton city, with 4,640 residents in the county. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Fulton city grew fastest since then (+2.4%).

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

Metropolitan area

Itawamba County is an outlying county of the Tupelo, MS Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 3 county equivalents have 133,167 residents on 1,397.7 square miles of land; Itawamba County accounts for 38.1% of the land and 18.1% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #120 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #11 by population. It belongs to the Tupelo-Corinth, MS Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

10 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Itawamba County; 5 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

38804388243884338847388493885538856388583887038876

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 Itawamba County

Itawamba County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents, including 2 in Alabama. It has more land than 3 of them. The largest neighbor is Monroe County (765.1 mi²) and the smallest is Prentiss County (415 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Itawamba County forms a block of 3,963.5 mi² of land, of which it holds 13.4%.

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

Itawamba 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 88 areas the size of Itawamba County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 23.1 miles (37.1 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 Itawamba County?

Itawamba County has more land than 1,265 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 Itawamba County at #2,040 nationally by total area, 83 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 1.4%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.2 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 Itawamba 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.