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Simpson County, Mississippi
8,838 Black residents · 34.1% of the county · ranked 33 of 82 in Mississippi by Black population
Simpson County is a Mississippi county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Simpson County held 25,949 residents in all, of whom 8,838 — 34.1% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 25,949 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 8,838 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 34.1% |
| Rank by Black population among Mississippi counties | 33 of 82 |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1 (race). Trend: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1.
Population Trend
The two-census record for Simpson County: 9,666 Black residents in 2010 and 8,838 in 2020. The population declined by 8.6%, and the Black share in Simpson County moved from 35.1% to 34.1%.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1 (race). Trend: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1.
The Record
Simpson County is one of 82 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Mississippi. Together they hold the state's 1.1 million Black residents, and Simpson County's 8,838 of them give it rank 33 of 82 in that order. The county is the gazetteer's middle geography — larger than the places inside it, smaller than the state frame — and the figures printed here for Simpson County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Simpson County, Mississippi, are recorded in this gazetteer through its place entries — the towns and communities inside the county's borders, each entered on its own published count. Read with those entries, the Simpson County page gives the frame they stand in: 25,949 residents in all, 8,838 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.