1,295 people (2024 Census estimate, −2.3% since 2020)
413 square miles of land · 3 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.
3 active community water systems list Issaquena County in the area they serve, reporting 1,452 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| TOWN OF MAYERSVILLE groundwater · local government · MS0280001 | 549 served |
| VALLEY PARK W/A groundwater · private · MS0280018 | 533 served |
| TALLULA UTILITY DISTRICT groundwater · local government · MS0280017 | 370 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 335 people were held in Issaquena County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 34,536 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 318.
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.
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 Issaquena County about $2.9 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
19 bridges in Issaquena County: 7 in good condition, 11 fair, and 1 poor (5.3%). “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 14 over INDIAN BAYOU · built 1950 | 2,200 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $10,000 of work in Issaquena County in fiscal 2025, about $7 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 Issaquena 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 Issaquena County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: East Carroll Parish, LA (13 mi) · Sharkey County (14 mi) · West Carroll Parish, LA (26 mi) · Warren County (29 mi) · Madison Parish, LA (31 mi) · Yazoo County (36 mi).