Olive Branch, Mississippi

Olive Branch population, 2020 to 2024

Olive Branch added 803 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.7%. In the latest year it moved by +170. Among 61 Mississippi places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 17th; the median place changed by -1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Mississippi has 12,656 people, so Olive Branch is 3.7 times that size.

Olive Branch covers 55.82 square miles of land and 0.22 of water, for 849 people per square mile of land. The median Mississippi place of 5,000+ has 738, so Olive Branch is denser than the typical town.

What county Olive Branch is in

All of Olive Branch's residents live in DeSoto County, which had 195,871 residents in 2024. Olive Branch holds 24.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Olive Branch

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Olive Branch by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 38654. 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 Olive Branch is

The Census internal point of Olive Branch is at 34.955800, -89.841200. Jackson, the capital, is 184.6 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Southaven, MS (57,493 people), 7.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Memphis, TN, 12.8 miles away.

Daylight in Olive Branch

At 34.96° N, Olive Branch gets about 14 h 31 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 48 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 42 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Olive Branch

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Mississippi, measured between internal points. The closest is Southaven, 7.7 miles away, with 57,493 people.