Mound Bayou, Mississippi

Mound Bayou population, 2020 to 2024

Mound Bayou lost 130 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -8.5%. In the latest year it moved by -20.

Mound Bayou covers 0.88 square miles of land, for 1,584 people per square mile of land. The median Mississippi place of 5,000+ has 738, so Mound Bayou is denser than the typical town.

What county Mound Bayou is in

All of Mound Bayou's residents live in Bolivar County, which had 28,395 residents in 2024. Mound Bayou holds 4.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mound Bayou

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mound Bayou by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 38762. 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 Mound Bayou is

The Census internal point of Mound Bayou is at 33.880700, -90.727900. Jackson, the capital, is 113.7 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Shelby, MS (1,800 people), 5.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Memphis, TN, 95.3 miles away.

Daylight in Mound Bayou

At 33.88° N, Mound Bayou gets about 14 h 25 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 54 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 31 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mound Bayou

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Mississippi, measured between internal points. The closest is Shelby, 5.3 miles away, with 1,800 people.