Morton, Mississippi

Morton population, 2020 to 2024

Morton lost 66 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.8%. In the latest year it moved by +1.

Morton covers 8.89 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 410 people per square mile of land. The median Mississippi place of 5,000+ has 738, so Morton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Morton is in

All of Morton's residents live in Scott County, which had 27,666 residents in 2024. Morton holds 13.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Morton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Morton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 39117. 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 Morton is

The Census internal point of Morton is at 32.345500, -89.659100. Jackson, the capital, is 30.9 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Forest, MS (5,364 people), 10.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Jackson, MS, 32.4 miles away.

Daylight in Morton

At 32.35° N, Morton 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 Morton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Mississippi, measured between internal points. The closest is Pelahatchie, 8.9 miles away, with 1,300 people.