Starkville, Mississippi

Starkville population, 2020 to 2024

Starkville added 146 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +164. Among 61 Mississippi places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 22nd; the median place changed by -1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Mississippi has 12,656 people, so Starkville is 2.0 times that size.

Starkville covers 27.76 square miles of land and 0.15 of water, for 931 people per square mile of land. The median Mississippi place of 5,000+ has 738, so Starkville is denser than the typical town.

What county Starkville is in

All of Starkville's residents live in Oktibbeha County, which had 51,965 residents in 2024. Starkville holds 49.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Starkville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Starkville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 39759. 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 Starkville is

The Census internal point of Starkville is at 33.463300, -88.827800. Jackson, the capital, is 112.6 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Tupelo, MS (37,775 people), 56.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tuscaloosa, AL, 76.7 miles away.

Daylight in Starkville

At 33.46° N, Starkville gets about 14 h 22 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 56 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 26 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Starkville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Mississippi, measured between internal points. The closest is West Point, 13.9 miles away, with 9,758 people.