Yazoo County area

Population and density of Yazoo County

The Census Bureau estimates that 22,947 people lived in Yazoo County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,734 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #39 of 82 in Mississippi. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 26,748, the population has declined by 3,801 (−14.2%), compared with −0.2% for Mississippi as a whole.

With 922.3 square miles of land, that is 25 people per square mile (9.6 per km²), placing Yazoo County #2,147 nationally for density and #55 in Mississippi. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Mississippi median is 43. Put another way, there are about 26 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 Yazoo County

4 incorporated places lie at least partly in Yazoo County. Together they are home to 10,335 people (45%); the other 12,612 (55%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Yazoo City city, with 9,867 residents in the county.

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

Metropolitan area

Yazoo County is an outlying county of the Jackson, MS Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 8 county equivalents have 609,847 residents on 6,014.3 square miles of land; Yazoo County accounts for 15.3% of the land and 3.8% 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

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

390393904039046390953914639162391733917939194

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 Yazoo County

Yazoo County shares a land border with 7 county equivalents. It has more land than every one of them. The largest neighbor is Hinds County (869.8 mi²) and the smallest is Issaquena County (413 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Yazoo County forms a block of 5,115 mi² of land, of which it holds 18%.

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

Yazoo County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.1 times as much. Mississippi’s county land could hold about 51 areas the size of Yazoo County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 30.4 miles (48.9 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 Yazoo County?

Yazoo County has more land than 2,429 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 Yazoo County at #872 nationally by total area, 79 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 1.3%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2%. The two percentages are within 0.1 percentage points of each other. 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 Yazoo 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.