8,091 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.4% since 2020)
418 square miles of land · 19 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.
11 active community water systems list Choctaw County in the area they serve, reporting 9,558 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| REFORM WATER ASSOCIATION groundwater · public/private · MS0100007 | 1,742 served |
| TOWN OF ACKERMAN groundwater · local government · MS0100001 | 1,594 served |
| FRENCH CAMP W/A #1 groundwater · public/private · MS0100004 | 1,478 served |
| SIMPSON WATER ASSOCIATION #1 groundwater · public/private · MS0100008 | 1,426 served |
| PAN HANDLE WATER ASSOCIATION groundwater · public/private · MS0100006 | 990 served |
| CHOCTAW WATER ASSN buys groundwater · public/private · MS0100002 | 583 served |
| TOWN OF WEIR groundwater · local government · MS0100009 | 560 served |
| FENTRESS COMMUNITY W/S buys groundwater · public/private · MS0100003 | 544 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 83 people were held in Choctaw County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2022), or 1,735 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2017 it was about 92.
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 Choctaw County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $28.4 million — $19.8 million to run schools, about $16,120 per student, plus $8.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $12.4 million local (mostly property tax), $8.6 million state, $4.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $97,000.
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 Choctaw County about $3.8 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.
165 bridges in Choctaw County: 88 in good condition, 62 fair, and 15 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.
| SR 9 over BIG BLACK RIVER · built 1955 | 2,100 vehicles a day |
| REFORM-STURGIS RD over STEWART CREEK · built 1994 | 210 vehicles a day |
| HUNTSVILLE ROAD over CRAPE CREEK · built 1972 | 170 vehicles a day |
| CUTTS ROAD over BESA CHITTO CREEK · built 2001 | 150 vehicles a day |
| FENT-PANHANDLE RD over TIBBY CREEK · built 1966 | 140 vehicles a day |
| TOLLISON ROAD over BRANCH OF TIBBY CREEK · built 1953 | 75 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $5.5 million of work in Choctaw County in fiscal 2025, about $666 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 Choctaw 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 Choctaw County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Webster County (18 mi) · Winston County (22 mi) · Oktibbeha County (22 mi) · Montgomery County (25 mi) · Attala County (26 mi) · Clay County (35 mi).