Mississippi · Census place 2820500

Durant, Mississippi

Durant is a city in Holmes County, Mississippi with an estimated 1,973 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 97th largest of 149 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,973
#97 of 149 in Mississippi
Change since 2020
-10.4%
-228 people
Land area
2.2 sq mi
+ 0.02 sq mi water
Density
881 / sq mi
State median 738
Orange pin: Durant. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Jackson.

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Durant population, 2020 to 2024

Durant lost 228 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -10.4%. In the latest year it moved by -48.

2,20120202,14320212,07320222,02120231,9732024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 2,220. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Durant covers 2.24 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 881 people per square mile of land. The median Mississippi place of 5,000+ has 738, so Durant is denser than the typical town.

What county Durant is in

All of Durant's residents live in Holmes County, which had 15,560 residents in 2024. Durant holds 12.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Durant

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Durant by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 39063. 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 Durant is

The Census internal point of Durant is at 33.081900, -89.857300. Jackson, the capital, is 57.4 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Kosciusko, MS (6,774 people), 15.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Jackson, MS, 56.9 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
33.081900, -89.857300
DMS
33°04'54.84"N 89°51'26.28"W
UTM
16N 233284.8E 3663998.3N
Geohash
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Plus code
865G34JV+Q3

Daylight in Durant

At 33.08° N, Durant gets about 14 h 20 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 58 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 22 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Durant

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Mississippi, measured between internal points. The closest is Goodman, 8.5 miles away, with 1,228 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Durant, MS?

1,973 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 228 (10.4%) from 2,201 in July 2020.

What county is Durant in?

Holmes County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Durant?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 39063.

How far is Durant from Jackson?

57.4 miles (92.3 km) in a straight line, heading SSW from Durant.

What is the nearest larger city to Durant?

Kosciusko, MS, with 6,774 residents, 15.6 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.