Brookhaven, Mississippi

Brookhaven population, 2020 to 2024

Brookhaven lost 2 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.0%. In the latest year it moved by +34. Among 61 Mississippi places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 24th; the median place changed by -1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Mississippi has 12,656 people, so Brookhaven is 92% of it.

Brookhaven covers 21.64 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 539 people per square mile of land. The median Mississippi place of 5,000+ has 738, so Brookhaven is less dense than the typical town.

What county Brookhaven is in

All of Brookhaven's residents live in Lincoln County, which had 34,956 residents in 2024. Brookhaven holds 33.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Brookhaven

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Brookhaven by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 39601. 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 Brookhaven is

The Census internal point of Brookhaven is at 31.580600, -90.443400. Jackson, the capital, is 51.9 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is McComb, MS (11,762 people), 23.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Jackson, MS, 52.6 miles away.

Daylight in Brookhaven

At 31.58° N, Brookhaven gets about 14 h 13 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 05 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 07 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Brookhaven

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Mississippi, measured between internal points. The closest is Wesson, 8.7 miles away, with 1,779 people.