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Mississippi Land Ownership Statistics 2024

How much of Mississippi is vacant land, how many of its property owners live away from what they own, and which counties stand out — counted from Mississippi MDEQ Cadastral Framework parcel records for 81 counties (2024 tax roll).

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Key statistics

  1. 1,889,528

    Mississippi has 1,889,528 parcels on record across the 81 counties with published parcel rolls.

    Scope: 81 counties with published parcel rolls.

  2. 38%

    709,371 Mississippi parcels — 38% of all parcels — are vacant land with no building on them.

    Scope: 81 counties with published parcel rolls.

  3. 51%

    51% of Mississippi property owners — 871,049 ownership records — are absentee: their mailing address is not the parcel's.

    Scope: 79 counties that publish owner mailing addresses.

  4. 13%

    223,692 Mississippi property owners (13%) have a mailing address in another state.

    Scope: 79 counties that publish owner mailing addresses.

  5. 90%

    The highest absentee-owner share in Mississippi is Winston County at 90%, followed by Jefferson County (87%) and Jasper County (86%).

    Scope: counties with at least 1,000 mailable owners.

  6. 38%

    The highest out-of-state owner share in Mississippi is Wilkinson County at 38%, followed by Hancock County (31%) and Amite County (30%).

    Scope: counties with at least 1,000 mailable owners.

  7. 29,209

    Harrison County has the most vacant land parcels in Mississippi: 29,209, followed by Jackson County (27,547) and Hancock County (26,589).

    Scope: 81 counties with published parcel rolls.

  8. 7 ac

    In the typical Mississippi county, the median vacant parcel is 7 acres; county medians run from 0.3 to 40 acres.

    Scope: 81 counties with published parcel rolls.

  9. 3,734

    3,734 Mississippi vacant-land owners are behind on their property taxes, per the 3 counties whose delinquent-tax lists we track.

    Scope: 3 counties with a current delinquent-tax list.

By county

81 counties, A to Z. Owner-location columns are blank where the county's records can't support the mailing-vs-parcel comparison.

CountyParcelsVacant parcelsVacant %Absentee %Out-of-state %Median vacant acres
Adams County18,5584,05022%58%14%2
Alcorn County22,4747,30232%43%8%4
Amite County16,8199,14954%63%30%11.5
Attala County16,9878,07448%29%15%18
Benton County9,5964,25744%30%20%6
Bolivar County24,34710,55243%86%14%3.6
Calhoun County14,1116,86849%46%9%14.2
Carroll County10,8365,33849%31%12%20
Chickasaw County13,7425,29939%65%9%10
Choctaw County9,4145,05254%21%16%19.8
Claiborne County8,6044,66354%81%20%13
Clarke County16,4847,95748%52%18%13.1
Clay County13,2555,26340%33%11%5.7
Coahoma County15,9736,13138%54%16%2.5
Copiah County22,5439,62643%81%13%8.8
Covington County17,2188,29148%38%9%7
DeSoto County82,36510,44513%70%15%1.5
Forrest County42,43112,44429%47%6%1
Franklin County9,7004,87050%6%28%15.9
George County20,4479,26745%5%9%3.7
Greene County13,6037,65356%16%15%13.3
Grenada County16,1985,53834%41%10%1.9
Hancock County52,33826,58951%46%31%0.3
Harrison County108,07829,20927%85%15%0.3
Holmes County16,0028,40653%45%16%10.7
Humphreys County8,3164,36653%31%13%16
Issaquena County2,8462,01771%13%16%40
Itawamba County16,8816,32737%31%8%10
Jackson County85,56827,54732%76%10%0.5
Jasper County19,28810,64155%86%17%10
Jefferson County8,4384,62255%87%28%17
Jefferson Davis County14,8098,48857%77%18%9.2
Jones County41,60613,62833%35%8%4
Kemper County11,7227,20861%8%24%20
Lafayette County32,9408,28225%56%15%3.1
Lamar County34,39410,50231%2
Lauderdale County46,86516,65636%37%9%1.6
Lawrence County13,0596,45749%39%16%9.3
Leake County17,0157,88446%43%13%12
Lee County43,4709,60322%50%5%2
Leflore County17,0305,35331%50%10%7.2
Lincoln County26,31910,75141%38%11%7.7
Lowndes County32,0367,87525%60%9%3
Madison County58,83715,57226%35%6%2.4
Marion County20,6189,06844%13%13%5.9
Marshall County26,5859,56736%24%17%4.5
Monroe County28,3749,91635%33%9%5.7
Montgomery County10,80110,13394%22%14%2.6
Neshoba County20,2307,90239%10%9%10
Newton County17,8308,21946%21%11%10.5
Noxubee County10,2794,92748%43%18%24
Oktibbeha County24,9257,78731%34%11%4.3
Panola County24,7219,08437%39%12%3.2
Pearl River County44,65218,01840%62%18%1
Perry County11,6455,54848%69%11%7
Pike County28,42110,88138%82%17%3
Pontotoc County20,4316,95934%36%5%8.4
Prentiss County18,3797,31740%47%5%6.6
Quitman County8,2854,41653%46%18%13
Rankin County80,34421,25326%1.1
Scott County21,5609,77345%65%9%5
Sharkey County4,7572,73758%35%11%20
Simpson County21,48410,03147%19%9%7.7
Smith County17,1668,75251%26%9%10.8
Stone County13,9865,83142%27%8%5
Sunflower County16,5755,89936%55%11%11
Tallahatchie County11,5395,89051%42%17%20
Tate County17,3375,51632%28%9%5
Tippah County17,5806,68938%65%8%4.3
Tishomingo County17,1456,38337%45%16%5.5
Tunica County6,4543,17649%37%21%18
Union County20,3217,57337%62%6%5.2
Walthall County15,0087,72651%10%22%9
Warren County27,2808,04629%61%10%1.8
Washington County32,6838,56026%49%16%1.2
Wayne County17,5648,06846%54%14%10.5
Webster County9,8544,92150%21%13%19
Wilkinson County10,7585,81054%83%38%11
Winston County16,58115,65694%90%13%3.5
Yalobusha County13,5346,26546%26%12%3.8
Yazoo County20,2809,00244%79%11%8.6

How these numbers are counted

  • Parcels are every record on the county's published parcel roll; vacant land is the county's own vacant land-use codes (no building value).
  • Absentee means the owner's mailing address differs from the parcel's address; out-of-state means the mailing address is in another state. Both are shares of owners with a mailable address, and are omitted for counties whose parcel addresses can't support the comparison.
  • Counts are deduplicated by owner and mailing address where the source allows it. Figures change when a county publishes a new roll.
  • Free to reuse with attribution (CC BY 4.0). Cite as: Land Lead Directory, "Mississippi Land Ownership Statistics 2024", Mississippi MDEQ Cadastral Framework (2024 tax roll). https://landleaddirectory.com/statistics/mississippi
  • The same county files for every state we cover are also on Kaggle, Hugging Face and GitHub.

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