Petal, Mississippi

Petal population, 2020 to 2024

Petal added 470 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.2%. In the latest year it moved by +143. Among 61 Mississippi places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 11th; the median place changed by -1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Mississippi has 12,656 people, so Petal is 91% of it.

Petal covers 16.91 square miles of land and 0.38 of water, for 682 people per square mile of land. The median Mississippi place of 5,000+ has 738, so Petal is close to the typical town.

What county Petal is in

All of Petal's residents live in Forrest County, which had 78,435 residents in 2024. Petal holds 14.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Petal

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Petal by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 39465. 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 Petal is

The Census internal point of Petal is at 31.348200, -89.235100. Jackson, the capital, is 86.2 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hattiesburg, MS (48,522 people), 5.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Mobile, AL, 81.6 miles away.

Daylight in Petal

At 31.35° N, Petal gets about 14 h 11 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 07 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 05 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Petal

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Mississippi, measured between internal points. The closest is Hattiesburg, 5.6 miles away, with 48,522 people.