Attala County, Mississippi

Attala County population, land area and income

Attala County had 17,222 residents in the Census Vintage 2024 estimate, on 735.0 square miles of land. It ranks 52nd of 82 in Mississippi by population and 11th by land area. That works out to 23.4 people per square mile, below the US average of 96.3, and below the national county median.

The median county-equivalent in Mississippi has 21,443 residents; Attala County is somewhat smaller.

Its SAIPE 2023 median household income of $52,128 is in the bottom quarter among 3,143 counties with an estimate.

How Attala County's population changed since 2020

Attala County lost 595 residents between the July 2020 and July 2024 estimates, a drop of 3.3%. That ranks 59th of 82 in Mississippi for growth. The median Mississippi county changed by -1.6%, and the state as a whole by -0.5%.

Since the April 2020 estimates base, Attala County recorded 901 births and 1,289 deaths, a natural change of -388. Net international migration added -3 and net domestic migration, people moving to or from other US counties, came to -279. The largest single component was natural change, which removed 388 people.

Where Attala County is

The Census internal point of Attala County is at 33.090500, -89.588600. It sits in UTM zone 16N. The map shades Mississippi's 82 county-equivalents by population change from 2020 to 2024, darker for faster growth, with Attala County outlined. Dots are towns of 1,000+ people with residents in it.

Towns in Attala County

One incorporated place of 1,000+ people has residents in Attala County, 6,774 people together, or 39% of the county. Each figure counts only the part of the town inside Attala County; towns marked "part" extend into another county. The largest is Kosciusko with 6,774.

Counties bordering Attala County

The Census 2024 county adjacency file lists 9 neighbors for Attala County. The most populous is Madison County, MS, with 114,247 residents. Distances run between Census internal points in a straight line.

• Madison County

  114,247 people

  41 mi SW

• Neshoba County

  28,973 people

  36 mi SE

• Yazoo County

  23,024 people

  52 mi WSW

• Leake County

  21,462 people

  23 mi S

• Winston County

  17,418 people

  32 mi E

• Holmes County

  15,560 people

  29 mi W

• Montgomery County

  9,411 people

  28 mi N

• Carroll County

  9,378 people

  31 mi NW

• Choctaw County

  8,091 people

  26 mi NE

Distance to Jackson and the nearest big city

Jackson is 64.8 miles SSW of Attala County's internal point in a straight line. The nearest place of 100,000 or more is Jackson, MS (population 141,449), 64.7 miles away. The nearest place of 10,000 or more is Canton, MS (population 10,777), 42.6 miles away.

Attala County FIPS code

The FIPS code of Attala County is 28007: state code 28 for Mississippi plus county code 007. Use it as text, with the leading zero, when joining Census, BLS, or CDC county tables. SAIPE lists its 2023 median household income as $52,128.