211,975 people (2024 Census estimate, −6.5% since 2020)
870 square miles of land · 244 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.
20 active community water systems list Hinds County in the area they serve, reporting 279,331 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CITY OF JACKSON surface water · local government · MS0250008 | 189,673 served |
| CITY OF JACKSON-MADDOX RD. groundwater · local government · MS0250012 | 28,098 served |
| CITY OF CLINTON groundwater · local government · MS0250003 | 25,000 served |
| SOUTH CENTRAL WATER ASSN groundwater · public/private · MS0250022 | 12,260 served |
| NORTH HINDS W/A #1-BROWNSVILLE groundwater · public/private · MS0250015 | 4,277 served |
| REEDTOWN WATER ASSN groundwater · public/private · MS0250021 | 3,260 served |
| CITY OF RAYMOND groundwater · local government · MS0250020 | 2,788 served |
| NORTH HINDS W/A #6-SHEPHERD HILLS groundwater · public/private · MS0250094 | 2,785 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 546 people were held in Hinds County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 379 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 715.
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.
3 school districts have their office in Hinds County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $298.1 million — $256.6 million to run schools, about $13,713 per student, plus $34.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $98 million local (mostly property tax), $121 million state, $91.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $162.2 million.
Spent $56.6 million — $50.5 million to run schools, about $9,681 per student, plus $4.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $22.6 million local (mostly property tax), $32 million state, $8.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $42.8 million.
Spent $73 million — $56.7 million to run schools, about $11,422 per student, plus $13.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $29.5 million local (mostly property tax), $30 million state, $12.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $68.1 million.
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 Moderate compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Hinds County about $116.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
666 bridges in Hinds County: 230 in good condition, 365 fair, and 71 poor (10.7%). “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.
| I 20 over LYNCH ST ABANDONED RR · built 1969 | 25,000 vehicles a day |
| I 20 over LYNCH ST ABANDONED RR · built 1969 | 24,500 vehicles a day |
| I 20 over BIG BLACK RIVER RELIEF · built 1994 | 18,500 vehicles a day |
| US 80 over PEARL RIVER · built 1938 | 16,000 vehicles a day |
| MONUMENT ST over TOWN CREEK · built 1920 | 14,000 vehicles a day |
| TERRY RD over BIG CREEK · built 1930 | 11,000 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $977.8 million of work in Hinds County in fiscal 2025, about $4,294 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 Hinds 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 Hinds County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Warren County (23 mi) · Copiah County (28 mi) · Rankin County (30 mi) · Claiborne County (33 mi) · Yazoo County (35 mi) · Madison County (36 mi).