Carroll County, Mississippi

Carroll County population, land area and income

Carroll County had 9,378 residents in the Census Vintage 2024 estimate, on 628.4 square miles of land. It ranks 70th of 82 in Mississippi by population and 30th by land area. That works out to 14.9 people per square mile, below the US average of 96.3, and in the bottom quarter nationally.

The median county-equivalent in Mississippi has 21,443 residents, so Carroll County has 44% of the typical county's population.

Its SAIPE 2023 median household income of $55,290 is below the national county median among 3,143 counties with an estimate.

How Carroll County's population changed since 2020

Carroll County lost 562 residents between the July 2020 and July 2024 estimates, a drop of 5.7%. That ranks 68th 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, Carroll County recorded 315 births and 697 deaths, a natural change of -382. Net international migration added -2 and net domestic migration, people moving to or from other US counties, came to -241. The largest single component was natural change, which removed 382 people.

Where Carroll County is

The Census internal point of Carroll County is at 33.440800, -89.918900. 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 Carroll County outlined. Dots are towns of 1,000+ people with residents in it.

Towns in Carroll County

No incorporated place of 1,000 or more people has residents in Carroll County. Its 9,378 residents live in smaller towns, census-designated places, or unincorporated land, which the subcounty estimates do not list at this size.

Counties bordering Carroll County

The Census 2024 county adjacency file lists 5 neighbors for Carroll County. The most populous is Leflore County, MS, with 26,157 residents. Distances run between Census internal points in a straight line.

• Leflore County

  26,157 people

  23 mi WNW

• Grenada County

  20,931 people

  24 mi NNE

• Attala County

  17,222 people

  31 mi SE

• Holmes County

  15,560 people

  24 mi SSW

• Montgomery County

  9,411 people

  17 mi ENE

Distance to Jackson and the nearest big city

Jackson is 80.4 miles S of Carroll County's internal point in a straight line. The nearest place of 100,000 or more is Jackson, MS (population 141,449), 79.6 miles away. The nearest place of 10,000 or more is Greenwood, MS (population 13,627), 16.9 miles away.

Carroll County FIPS code

The FIPS code of Carroll County is 28015: state code 28 for Mississippi plus county code 015. Use it as text, with the leading zero, when joining Census, BLS, or CDC county tables. SAIPE lists its 2023 median household income as $55,290.