15,560 people (2024 Census estimate, −7.8% since 2020)
757 square miles of land · 21 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 Holmes County in the area they serve, reporting 21,100 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CITY OF DURANT groundwater · local government · MS0260006 | 2,932 served |
| LEBANON W/A-WEST groundwater · public/private · MS0260011 | 1,742 served |
| SWEET HOME WATER & SEWER DIST groundwater · local government · MS0260015 | 1,695 served |
| TOWN OF TCHULA groundwater · local government · MS0260016 | 1,642 served |
| CITY OF LEXINGTON groundwater · local government · MS0260012 | 1,600 served |
| TOWN OF PICKENS groundwater · local government · MS0260013 | 1,587 served |
| ACONA WATER ASSOCIATION #1 groundwater · public/private · MS0260001 | 1,373 served |
| WEST HOLMES WATER ASSOCIATION groundwater · public/private · MS0260027 | 1,245 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 29 people were held in Holmes County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2022), or 285 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2017 it was about 191.
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 Holmes County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $49.9 million — $38.3 million to run schools, about $15,056 per student, plus $11 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $9.1 million local (mostly property tax), $16.7 million state, $18.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $3.3 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 Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Holmes County about $9.1 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.
215 bridges in Holmes County: 110 in good condition, 86 fair, and 19 poor (8.8%). “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 12 over MOCCASIN CREEK · built 1933 | 6,300 vehicles a day |
| SR 17 over GOURDVINE CREEK · built 1937 | 3,400 vehicles a day |
| SR 433 over HARLAND CREEK · built 1985 | 350 vehicles a day |
| HEBRON ROAD PAVED over WILLIAMS CREEK · built 1969 | 120 vehicles a day |
| SAND HILL ROAD over SHIP CREEK · built 1973 | 100 vehicles a day |
| PROVIDENCE ROAD over SPRING BRANCH · built 1974 | 90 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $10.2 million of work in Holmes County in fiscal 2025, about $598 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 Holmes 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 Holmes County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Carroll County (24 mi) · Humphreys County (25 mi) · Attala County (29 mi) · Yazoo County (30 mi) · Leflore County (32 mi) · Madison County (34 mi).