Washington County

The median income of households in Washington County, Mississippi was $42,165. An estimated 8.7% of households had income below $10,000 a year and 4% had income of $200,000 or more.

An estimated 66.7% of households received earnings. An estimated 35.8% of households received Social Security and an estimated 16.1 % of households received retirement income other than Social Security. The average income from Social Security was $19,005. These income sources are not mutually exclusive; that is, some households received income from more than one source.

In 2020-2024, 26.4 % of people were in poverty. An estimated 38.1% of children under 18 were below the poverty level, compared with 20.2% of people 65 years old and over. An estimated 23.1% of people 18 to 64 years were below the poverty level.

In 2020-2024, 17.6 % of households received SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). An estimated 43.5% of households that received SNAP had children under 18, and 38.2% of households that received SNAP had one or more people 60 years and over. An estimated 39.2% of all households receiving SNAP were families with a female householder and no spouse present.

Among the civilian noninstitutionalized population in Washington County, Mississippi in 2020-2024, 88.4% had health insurance coverage and 11.6% did not have health insurance coverage. Private coverage was 50.3% and public coverage was 54.5%, respectively. The percentage of children under the age of 19 with no health insurance coverage was 5.2%.

In 2020-2024, Washington County, Mississippi had a total population of 42,765 - 22,822 (53.4%) females and 19,943 (46.6%) males. The median age was 38 years. An estimated 25.6% of the population was under 18 years, 29.8% was 19 to 44 years, 24.4% was 45 to 64 years, and 17.8 % was 65 years and older.

In 2020-2024, there were 17,113 households in Washington County, Mississippi. The average household size was 2.45 people.

Married-couple households made up 31.9% of the households in Washington County, Mississippi while cohabiting couple households made up 2.7% of households. Female householders with no spouse or partner present were 42.8% of all households, while 22.7% of households had male householders with no spouse or partner present. Some households had one person, as 16.8% of households were male householders living alone, and 21.6% were female householders living alone, for a total of 38.4% of all households.

In Washington County, Mississippi, 29.2% of all households had one or more people under the age of 18; 34.6% of all households had one or more people 65 years and over.

In 2020-2024, an estimated 99.3% of the people living in Washington County, Mississippi were U.S. natives. 86.5% of the Washington County, Mississippi population were living in the state where they were born.

Approximately 0.7% of Washington County, Mississippi residents in 2020-2024 were foreign-born. 67.3% of foreign-born were naturalized U.S. citizens and an estimated 78.4 % entered the country before the year 2010.

Foreign-born residents of Washington County, Mississippi come from different parts of the world. The bar graph below displays the percentage of foreign-born from each world region of birth in 2020-2024 for Washington County, Mississippi.

Among people at least five years old living in Washington County, Mississippi in 2020-2024, 2.5 % spoke a language other than English at home. Spanish was spoken by 1.5% of people at least five years old; 0.9% reported that they did not speak English "very well."

In 2020-2024, 88.1 % of the people at least one year old living in Washington County, Mississippi were living in the same house one year earlier.

In 2020-2024, 81.8 % of people 25 years and over had at least graduated from high school and 22.4% had a bachelor's degree or higher. An estimated 18.2% did not complete high school.

The total school enrollment in Washington County, Mississippi was 10,824 in 2020-2024. Nursery school enrollment was 1,018 and kindergarten through 12th grade enrollment was 8,126. College or graduate school enrollment was 1,680.

In Washington County, Mississippi, among the civilian noninstitutionalized population in 2020-2024, 23.4 % reported a disability. The likelihood of having a disability varied by age - from 8.3% of people under 18 years old, to 24.7% of people 18 to 64 years old, and to 41.7% of those 65 and over.

In Washington County, Mississippi, 49.1 % of the population 16 and over were employed; 47.4% were not currently in the labor force.

An estimated 72.2% of the people employed were private wage and salary workers; 23.2% were federal, state, or local government workers; and 4.5 % were self-employed in their own (not incorporated) business.

In 2020-2024, the civilian employed population 16 years and older in Washington County, Mississippi worked in the following industries:

An estimated 85.1% of Washington County, Mississippi workers drove to work alone in 2020-2024, and 7.7% carpooled. Among those who commuted to work, it took them on average 19.6 minutes to get to work.

In 2020-2024, Washington County, Mississippi had a total of 20,867 housing units. Of these housing units, 74.8% were single-family houses either not attached to any other structure or attached to one or more structures (commonly referred to as "townhouses" or "row houses"). 18.5% of the housing units were located in multi-unit structures, or those buildings that contained two or more apartments. 6.7% were mobile homes, while any remaining housing units were classified as "other," which included boats, recreational vehicles, vans, etc.

3.4% of the housing inventory was comprised of houses built since 2010, while 4.8% of the houses were first built in 1939 or earlier. The median number of rooms in all housing units in Washington County, Mississippi was 5.3 rooms, and of these housing units 66.8% had three or more bedrooms.

In 2020-2024, Washington County, Mississippi had 17,113 housing units that were occupied or had people living in them, while the remaining 3,754 were vacant. Of the occupied housing units, the percentage of these houses occupied by owners (also known as the homeownership rate) was 60.2% while renters occupied 39.8%. The average household size of owner-occupied houses was 2.38 and in renter-occupied houses it was 2.57.

4.4% of householders of these occupied houses had moved into their house since 2021, while 14.6% moved into their house in 1989 or earlier. Households without a vehicle available for personal use comprised 11.9% and another 16.3% had three or more vehicles available for use.

The following chart provides the primary fuel used to heat houses in Washington County, Mississippi:

In 2020-2024, the median property value for owner-occupied houses in Washington County, Mississippi was $104,000.

Of the owner-occupied households, 40.2 % had a mortgage. 59.8% owned their houses "free and clear," that is without a primary mortgage or loan on the house. The median monthly housing costs for owners with a mortgage was $1,258 and for owners without a mortgage it was $406.

For renter-occupied houses, the median gross rent for Washington County, Mississippi was $833. Gross rent includes the monthly contract rent and any monthly payments made for electricity, gas, water and sewer, and any other fuels to heat the house.