18,553 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.6% since 2020)
424 square miles of land · 44 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.
11 active community water systems list Tishomingo County in the area they serve, reporting 24,936 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CITY OF IUKA groundwater · local government · MS0710006 | 7,268 served |
| DENNIS WATER ASSOCIATION groundwater · public/private · MS0710003 | 3,256 served |
| SHORT-COLEMAN PARK WATER ASSN #3 groundwater · public/private · MS0710008 | 2,606 served |
| TISHOMINGO CO WATER DISTRICT groundwater · local government · MS0710004 | 2,598 served |
| TOWN OF BELMONT groundwater · local government · MS0710001 | 2,250 served |
| TOWN OF GOLDEN WATER DEPT groundwater · local government · MS0710005 | 1,848 served |
| SHORT COLEMAN PARK-NASA PLANT groundwater · public/private · MS0710029 | 1,800 served |
| TOWN OF BURNSVILLE groundwater · local government · MS0710002 | 1,278 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 112 people were held in Tishomingo County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 958 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 68.
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 Tishomingo County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $38.8 million — $34.3 million to run schools, about $11,853 per student, plus $4.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $11.2 million local (mostly property tax), $19.9 million state, $6.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $5.7 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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Tishomingo County about $8.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
146 bridges in Tishomingo County: 86 in good condition, 52 fair, and 8 poor (5.5%). “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 25 over CRIPPLE DEER CREEK · built 1948 | 5,800 vehicles a day |
| SR 25 over REDMONT RR · built 1948 | 5,700 vehicles a day |
| SR 25 over SANDY CREEK · built 1983 | 4,400 vehicles a day |
| SR 172 over ELLINGTON CREEK · built 1980 | 1,500 vehicles a day |
| CR 098 over CEDAR CREEK · built 1963 | 160 vehicles a day |
| CR 982 over ROBINSON CREEK · built 1957 | 133 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $12.5 million of work in Tishomingo County in fiscal 2025, about $662 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 Tishomingo 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 Tishomingo County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Prentiss County (18 mi) · Alcorn County (22 mi) · Colbert County, AL (25 mi) · Franklin County, AL (30 mi) · Hardin County, TN (32 mi) · Itawamba County (32 mi).