12,451 people (2024 Census estimate, −2.0% since 2020)
730 square miles of land · 17 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
10 active community water systems list Amite County in the area they serve, reporting 11,211 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| N CENTRAL AMITE WATER ASSN groundwater · public/private · MS0030026 | 2,872 served |
| WILK-AMITE W/A #1-SOUTH groundwater · public/private · MS0030007 | 2,149 served |
| NORTHEAST AMITE WATER ASSN groundwater · public/private · MS0030024 | 1,816 served |
| TOWN OF LIBERTY groundwater · local government · MS0030004 | 1,069 served |
| MARY SPRINGS WATER ASSOCIATION groundwater · public/private · MS0030005 | 995 served |
| TOWN OF GLOSTER groundwater · local government · MS0030003 | 960 served |
| COLES WATER ASSOCIATION #1 groundwater · public/private · MS0030001 | 694 served |
| TOWN OF CROSBY groundwater · local government · MS0030002 | 300 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 58 people were held in Amite County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 762 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 21.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
1 school district has its office in Amite County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $15.8 million — $14.8 million to run schools, about $17,340 per student, plus $816,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.3 million local (mostly property tax), $6.4 million state, $4.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $450,000.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Amite County about $8.9 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
208 bridges in Amite County: 137 in good condition, 52 fair, and 19 poor (9.1%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| LOWER CENTREVILLE over WEST FORK AMITE RIVER · built 1960 | 170 vehicles a day |
| STREET ROAD over MART BRANCH · built 1977 | 100 vehicles a day |
| TANGIPAHOA ROAD over COBB BRANCH · built 1977 | 90 vehicles a day |
| OLD 24-COMPROMISE over WEST FORK AMITE RIVER · built 1972 | 80 vehicles a day |
| EBENEZER CHURCH RD over SECTION BRANCH · built 1970 | 75 vehicles a day |
| MARY WALL BRIDGE over EAST FORK AMITE RIVER · built 1988 | 75 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $481,829 of work in Amite County in fiscal 2025, about $38 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Mississippi are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Amite County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Amite County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Franklin County (20 mi) · Pike County (24 mi) · St. Helena Parish, LA (27 mi) · East Feliciana Parish, LA (29 mi) · Lincoln County (30 mi) · Wilkinson County (31 mi).