Guntown, Mississippi

Guntown population, 2020 to 2024

Guntown added 20 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.8%. In the latest year it moved by +8.

Guntown covers 6.36 square miles of land, for 410 people per square mile of land. The median Mississippi place of 5,000+ has 738, so Guntown is less dense than the typical town.

What county Guntown is in

All of Guntown's residents live in Lee County, which had 83,012 residents in 2024. Guntown holds 3.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Guntown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Guntown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 38849. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Guntown is

The Census internal point of Guntown is at 34.444800, -88.666300. Jackson, the capital, is 172.2 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Baldwyn, MS (3,084 people), 4.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Memphis, TN, 87.0 miles away.

Daylight in Guntown

At 34.44° N, Guntown gets about 14 h 28 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 51 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 37 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Guntown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Mississippi, measured between internal points. The closest is Baldwyn, 4.4 miles away, with 3,084 people.