Noxubee County area

Population and density of Noxubee County

The Census Bureau estimates that 9,798 people lived in Noxubee County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,497 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #68 of 82 in Mississippi. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 10,276, the population has declined by 478 (−4.7%), compared with −0.2% for Mississippi as a whole.

With 695.4 square miles of land, that is 14 people per square mile (5.4 per km²), placing Noxubee County #2,500 nationally for density and #75 in Mississippi. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Mississippi median is 43. Put another way, there are about 45 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 Noxubee County

3 incorporated places lie at least partly in Noxubee County. Together they are home to 3,667 people (37.4%); the other 6,131 (62.6%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Macon city, with 2,432 residents in the county.

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

Metropolitan area

Noxubee County is an outlying county of the Columbus, MS Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 67,144 residents on 1,201.4 square miles of land; Noxubee County accounts for 57.9% of the land and 14.6% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #144 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #124 by population. It belongs to the Starkville-Columbus, MS Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

6 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Noxubee County; 3 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

393413935439358393613973939743

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 Noxubee County

Noxubee 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 Sumter County (903.8 mi²) and the smallest is Oktibbeha County (457.6 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Noxubee County forms a block of 4,817.7 mi² of land, of which it holds 14.4%.

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

Noxubee County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.5 times as much. Mississippi’s county land could hold about 67 areas the size of Noxubee County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 26.4 miles (42.4 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 Noxubee County?

Noxubee County has more land than 1,882 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 Noxubee County at #1,438 nationally by total area, 98 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 0.7%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.5 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 Noxubee 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.