12,754 people (2024 Census estimate, −3.5% since 2020)
587 square miles of land · 22 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.
17 active community water systems list Calhoun County in the area they serve, reporting 18,477 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CITY OF BRUCE groundwater · local government · MS0070003 | 2,798 served |
| MT COMFORT W/A-BANNER groundwater · public/private · MS0070020 | 2,442 served |
| CITY OF CALHOUN CITY groundwater · local government · MS0070004 | 2,101 served |
| TOWN OF VARDAMAN groundwater · local government · MS0070019 | 1,610 served |
| CROSS-ROADS WATER ASSOCIATION groundwater · public/private · MS0070005 | 1,125 served |
| MT COMFORT W/A groundwater · public/private · MS0070010 | 1,085 served |
| TOWN OF PITTSBORO groundwater · local government · MS0070015 | 1,077 served |
| MT COMFORT W/A-MT MORIAH groundwater · public/private · MS0070011 | 1,011 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 35 people were held in Calhoun County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 423 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 43.
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 Calhoun County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $28.6 million — $27.4 million to run schools, about $13,180 per student, plus $1.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.6 million local (mostly property tax), $15 million state, $7.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $840,000.
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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Calhoun County about $6.6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
218 bridges in Calhoun County: 109 in good condition, 86 fair, and 23 poor (10.6%). “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.
| SR 9 over YALOBUSHA CANAL · built 1952 | 3,400 vehicles a day |
| SR 9 over OLD YALOBUSHA RIVER · built 1952 | 3,400 vehicles a day |
| SR 9 over CREEK · built 1952 | 3,100 vehicles a day |
| SR 8 over SHUTISPEAR CREEK · built 1952 | 1,600 vehicles a day |
| CR 306 over UNNAMED CREEK · built 1957 | 970 vehicles a day |
| CR 308 over RELIEF FOR SAVANNAH CK. · built 1957 | 670 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $762,518 of work in Calhoun County in fiscal 2025, about $57 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 Calhoun 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 Calhoun County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Yalobusha County (22 mi) · Chickasaw County (22 mi) · Webster County (23 mi) · Pontotoc County (26 mi) · Grenada County (29 mi) · Lafayette County (30 mi).