Mississippi
Mississippi: the places inside it, the companies based here, and where this atlas has research on it.
state · North America · page prepared 2026-11-07
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Mississippi at a glance
Rolled up from the 21 regions inside Mississippi on this site, with census figures from Statistics Canada.
Who leads Mississippi, and how households are doing
Researched 2026-11-08 from official statistics; every figure links to its source.
- Population
- 2,954,160 persons (July 1 resident population estimate, Census Bureau) (2025) ↗
- GDP
- 168,548 USD millions, nominal, seasonally adjusted annual rate (BEA GDP by State) (2026-Q2) ↗
- Unemployment
- 3.3 % seasonally adjusted (BLS LAUS) (2026-09) ↗
- Median household income
- 57,840 USD, current dollars (Census Bureau, Income and Poverty in the United States / CPS ASEC) (2025) ↗
- Home ownership
- 74.9 % of households (US Census Bureau via USAFacts) (2025) ↗
- Debt per person with a credit report
- 41,500 USD average household debt per person with a credit score (NY Fed Center for Microeconomic Data via USAFacts, inflation-adjusted) (2025) ↗
Home prices in the biggest cities
As each source measures them (benchmark, median or average sale price); not directly comparable across measures.
Languages
Official-language and home-language figures as the census reports them.
Largest companies in Mississippi
Ranked by the measure shown, from the cited ranking or filing.
| Company | Measure | Value | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cal-Maine Foods (Ridgeland) ↗ | revenue | 2.91 USD billions (FY ended 2026-05-30) | 2026 |
| Hancock Whitney (Gulfport) ↗ | revenue | 1.515 USD billions | 2025 |
| Renasant Corp. / Renasant Bank (Tupelo) ↗ | revenue | 1.091 USD billions | 2024 |
| Trustmark Corporation (Jackson) ↗ | revenue | 0.878 USD billions | 2023 |
Worth knowing
- 2025-03Gov. Tate Reeves signed House Bill 1 (Build Up Mississippi Act), which cuts the individual income tax rate to 3% by calendar year 2030 and then steps it down to 0%. It also lowers the tax on grocery sales from 7% to 5%. ↗
- 2025Mississippi's 2025 homeownership rate (74.9%) was 9.7 percentage points above the US rate. Among metros, Gulfport-Biloxi had the highest rate (69.3%, 2024). ↗
- 2026-02Cadence Bank, based in Tupelo and Houston, was acquired by Huntington Bancshares of Columbus, Ohio, on February 1, 2026. ↗
- 2025Mississippi residents with a credit score owed about $21,800 less in household debt than the average American in 2025. Mortgages were about 52.3% of the state's household debt. ↗
- 2026-09The statewide unemployment rate fell to 3.3% in September 2026, from 3.8% in June 2026 (seasonally adjusted). ↗
Census
US Census Bureau American Community Survey.
- Spanish71,295 · 2.4%
- Other Indo-European languages8,103 · 0.3%
- Other and unspecified languages7,861 · 0.3%
- Vietnamese5,881 · 0.2%
Largest places in Mississippi
By registry population; places with a full /local page are marked.
- 1.Jackson, Mississippi full153,701
- 2.Gulfport, Mississippi full72,926
- 3.Southaven, MS full55,531
- 4.Biloxi, MS full49,011
- 5.Hattiesburg, MS full48,730
- 6.Olive Branch, MS full39,711
- 7.Tupelo, Mississippi full37,923
- 8.Meridian, Mississippi full35,052
- 9.Greenville, Mississippi full29,670
- 10.Clinton, MS full27,418
- 11.Pearl, MS full27,115
- 12.Starkville, MS full24,360
- 13.Columbus, Mississippi full23,616
- 14.Pascagoula, MS full22,010
- 15.Vicksburg, Mississippi full21,573
Inside Mississippi
21 regions have Mississippi as their parent.
- Biloxi, MS
- Clarksdale, MS
- Clinton, MS
- Columbus, Mississippi
- Greenville, Mississippi
- Gulfport, Mississippi
- Hattiesburg, MS
- Jackson, Mississippi
- Laurel, Mississippi
- Meridian, Mississippi
- Natchez, Mississippi
- Ocean Springs, MS
- Olive Branch, MS
- Pascagoula, MS
- Pearl, MS
- Richland, Mississippi
- Southaven, MS
- Starkville, MS
- Tunica, MS
- Tupelo, Mississippi
- Vicksburg, Mississippi
Companies based in Mississippi
7 companies in the Research Upon directory have their headquarters somewhere in Mississippi. Search them by name or industry.
areaAbout this page: figures for the whole of Mississippi are rolled up from every region inside it; each place inside has a page of its own, and the companies headquartered here are listed above.