Brandon, Mississippi

Brandon population, 2020 to 2024

Brandon added 739 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.9%. In the latest year it moved by +114. Among 61 Mississippi places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 13th; the median place changed by -1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Mississippi has 12,656 people, so Brandon is 2.0 times that size.

Brandon covers 25.66 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 1,008 people per square mile of land. The median Mississippi place of 5,000+ has 738, so Brandon is denser than the typical town.

What county Brandon is in

All of Brandon's residents live in Rankin County, which had 160,573 residents in 2024. Brandon holds 16.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Brandon

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Brandon by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 39042. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Brandon is

The Census internal point of Brandon is at 32.278100, -89.990700. Jackson, the capital, is 11.4 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pearl, MS (28,458 people), 5.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Jackson, MS, 13.2 miles away.

Daylight in Brandon

At 32.28° N, Brandon gets about 14 h 16 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 02 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 14 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Brandon

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Mississippi, measured between internal points. The closest is Pearl, 5.9 miles away, with 28,458 people.