Picayune, Mississippi

Picayune population, 2020 to 2024

Picayune added 143 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.2%. In the latest year it moved by +91. Among 61 Mississippi places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 20th; the median place changed by -1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Mississippi has 12,656 people, so Picayune is 95% of it.

Picayune covers 18.04 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 666 people per square mile of land. The median Mississippi place of 5,000+ has 738, so Picayune is close to the typical town.

What county Picayune is in

All of Picayune's residents live in Pearl River County, which had 59,030 residents in 2024. Picayune holds 20.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Picayune

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Picayune by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 39466. 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 Picayune is

The Census internal point of Picayune is at 30.530800, -89.670600. Jackson, the capital, is 125.9 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Slidell, LA (28,440 people), 18.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is New Orleans, LA, 36.5 miles away.

Daylight in Picayune

At 30.53° N, Picayune gets about 14 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 57 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Picayune

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Mississippi, measured between internal points. The closest is Diamondhead, 21.7 miles away, with 9,391 people.