Yalobusha County area

Population and density of Yalobusha County

The Census Bureau estimates that 12,375 people lived in Yalobusha County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,332 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #62 of 82 in Mississippi. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 12,485, the population has declined by 110 (−0.9%), compared with −0.2% for Mississippi as a whole.

With 467.2 square miles of land, that is 26 people per square mile (10 per km²), placing Yalobusha County #2,105 nationally for density and #54 in Mississippi. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Mississippi median is 43. Put another way, there are about 24 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 Yalobusha County

3 incorporated places lie at least partly in Yalobusha County. Together they are home to 4,650 people (37.6%); the other 7,725 (62.4%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Water Valley city, with 3,414 residents in the county.

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

Metropolitan area

Yalobusha County is an outlying county of the Oxford, MS Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 71,972 residents on 1,098.8 square miles of land; Yalobusha County accounts for 42.5% of the land and 17.2% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #156 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #99 by population.

ZIP codes

7 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Yalobusha County; 4 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

38658389223892738948389533896138965

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 Yalobusha County

Yalobusha County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. It has more land than 1 of them. The largest neighbor is Panola County (685.2 mi²) and the smallest is Grenada County (422.1 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Yalobusha County forms a block of 3,438.3 mi² of land, of which it holds 13.6%.

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

Yalobusha County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2.2 times as much. Mississippi’s county land could hold about 100 areas the size of Yalobusha County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 21.6 miles (34.8 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 Yalobusha County?

Yalobusha County has more land than 1,018 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 Yalobusha County at #2,204 nationally by total area, the same position as its land rank. Changing the area definition does not change its position in this release.

Its water share is 5.6%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 4.5 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 Yalobusha 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.