Columbia, Mississippi

Columbia population, 2020 to 2024

Columbia lost 229 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.4%. In the latest year it moved by -52. Among 61 Mississippi places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 45th; the median place changed by -1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Mississippi has 12,656 people, so Columbia is 52% of it.

Columbia covers 11.17 square miles of land and 0.14 of water, for 585 people per square mile of land. The median Mississippi place of 5,000+ has 738, so Columbia is less dense than the typical town.

What county Columbia is in

All of Columbia's residents live in Marion County, which had 24,008 residents in 2024. Columbia holds 27.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Columbia

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Columbia by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 39429. 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 Columbia is

The Census internal point of Columbia is at 31.258600, -89.818700. Jackson, the capital, is 75.0 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hattiesburg, MS (48,522 people), 29.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Jackson, MS, 76.6 miles away.

Daylight in Columbia

At 31.26° N, Columbia gets about 14 h 11 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 07 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 04 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Columbia

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Mississippi, measured between internal points. The closest is Sumrall, 19.7 miles away, with 2,172 people.