Flowood, Mississippi

Flowood population, 2020 to 2024

Flowood added 565 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.5%. In the latest year it moved by +118. Among 61 Mississippi places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 6th; the median place changed by -1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Mississippi has 12,656 people, so Flowood is 86% of it.

Flowood covers 28.80 square miles of land and 0.40 of water, for 377 people per square mile of land. The median Mississippi place of 5,000+ has 738, so Flowood is less dense than the typical town.

What county Flowood is in

All of Flowood's residents live in Rankin County, which had 160,573 residents in 2024. Flowood holds 6.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Flowood

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Flowood by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 39232. 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 Flowood is

The Census internal point of Flowood is at 32.336100, -90.072900. Jackson, the capital, is 7.0 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pearl, MS (28,458 people), 4.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Jackson, MS, 8.3 miles away.

Daylight in Flowood

At 32.34° N, Flowood gets about 14 h 17 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 02 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 15 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Flowood

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Mississippi, measured between internal points. The closest is Pearl, 4.5 miles away, with 28,458 people.