Greene County, Mississippi: public records at a glance

How Greene County compares — against the other counties in Mississippi

• 13,675 — people: 59th highest of 82 Mississippi counties.
• $12,818 — spending per student in its school districts: 37th highest of 81 Mississippi counties.
• 74.7 years — life expectancy: 7th highest of 81 Mississippi counties.
• 11.7% — share of adults under 65 without health insurance: 78th highest of 82 Mississippi counties.
• 25.0% — child poverty: 54th highest of 82 Mississippi counties.
• 71.4% — households with broadband internet: 64th highest of 82 Mississippi counties.
• $54,057 — median household income: 19th highest of 82 Mississippi counties.
• 0.6% — share of bridges rated poor: 79th highest of 82 Mississippi counties.
• $-25 — federal grant dollars per resident: 81st highest of 82 Mississippi counties.
• $9.4 million — expected yearly losses from natural hazards: 51st highest of 82 Mississippi counties.

“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.

Drinking water — public water systems serving Greene County

7 active community water systems list Greene County in the area they serve, reporting 10,871 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).

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.

The jail — people held in the county jail

About 25 people were held in Greene County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 265 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 18.

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.

Public schools — district budgets, fiscal 2023

1 school district has its office in Greene County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.

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.

Health, money and internet at home — Greene County beside Mississippi

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.

Disaster risk — FEMA's National Risk Index

Overall risk: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Greene County about $9.4 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Relatively High.

The costliest hazards here

Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.

Bridges — condition of every public bridge, 2025

170 bridges in Greene County: 118 in good condition, 51 fair, and 1 poor (0.6%). “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.

Busiest bridges rated poor

Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.

Federal grants — the money that came in, and what's open now

Federal grants paid for $-342,699 of work in Greene County in fiscal 2025, about $-25 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.

Open now: federal grants county governments can apply for

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.

Voting

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.

Not here yet

The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Greene 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 Greene County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.

More of Mississippi: the state government and every county in Mississippi.

Nearby counties: Perry County (21 mi) · George County (25 mi) · Washington County, AL (28 mi) · Wayne County (30 mi) · Forrest County (37 mi) · Stone County (41 mi).