Kemper County, Mississippi: public records at a glance

How Kemper County compares — against the other counties in Mississippi

• 8,562 — people: 72nd highest of 82 Mississippi counties.
• $20,206 — spending per student in its school districts: the highest of 81 Mississippi counties.
• 75.7 years — life expectancy: 4th highest of 81 Mississippi counties.
• 13.0% — share of adults under 65 without health insurance: 60th highest of 82 Mississippi counties.
• 35.9% — child poverty: 19th highest of 82 Mississippi counties.
• 71.6% — households with broadband internet: 62nd highest of 82 Mississippi counties.
• $42,461 — median household income: 64th highest of 82 Mississippi counties.
• 3.3% — share of bridges rated poor: 59th highest of 82 Mississippi counties.
• $1,926 — federal grant dollars per resident: 8th highest of 82 Mississippi counties.
• $4.1 million — expected yearly losses from natural hazards: 76th 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 Kemper County

12 active community water systems list Kemper County in the area they serve, reporting 12,295 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 382 people were held in Kemper County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 7,057 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 417.

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 Kemper 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 — Kemper 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 Kemper County about $4.1 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Very 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

211 bridges in Kemper County: 130 in good condition, 74 fair, and 7 poor (3.3%). “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.

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 $17.3 million of work in Kemper County in fiscal 2025, about $1,926 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 Kemper 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 Kemper County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.

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

Nearby counties: Lauderdale County (24 mi) · Noxubee County (25 mi) · Sumter County, AL (27 mi) · Neshoba County (29 mi) · Winston County (33 mi) · Newton County (37 mi).