Pearl, Mississippi

Pearl population, 2020 to 2024

Pearl added 1,367 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.0%. In the latest year it moved by +307. Among 61 Mississippi places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 9th; the median place changed by -1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Mississippi has 12,656 people, so Pearl is 2.2 times that size.

Pearl covers 25.49 square miles of land and 0.12 of water, for 1,116 people per square mile of land. The median Mississippi place of 5,000+ has 738, so Pearl is denser than the typical town.

What county Pearl is in

All of Pearl's residents live in Rankin County, which had 160,573 residents in 2024. Pearl holds 17.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Pearl

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Pearl by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 39208. 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 Pearl is

The Census internal point of Pearl is at 32.272500, -90.091800. Jackson, the capital, is 5.7 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Jackson, MS (141,449 people), 7.7 miles away.

Daylight in Pearl

At 32.27° N, Pearl gets about 14 h 16 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 02 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 14 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Pearl

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Mississippi, measured between internal points. The closest is Flowood, 4.5 miles away, with 10,853 people.