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Hancock County
46,492Population
1.0 %Change since 2020
256Net migration
3.2 %Unemployment rate
Facts
- Population
- 46,492 (2024)
- Change since 2020
- 1.0 %
- Net migration
- 256 (2023)
- Unemployment rate
- 3.2 % (2025)
- State
- Mississippi
- Population base, April 2020
- 46,052 (2020)
- Births
- 455 (2023)
- Births per 1,000 residents, 2023
- 9.8
- Deaths
- 597 (2023)
- Deaths per 1,000 residents, 2023
- 12.8
- Natural change, 2023
- -142
- International migration
- 11 (2023)
- Domestic migration
- 245 (2023)
- Net migration per 1,000, 2023
- 5.5
- Postal code
- MS
- FIPS code
- 28045
Sources: US Census Bureau — Population Estimates, Bureau of Labor Statistics — LAUS
Unemployment rate, annual average
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.2 % |
| 2024 | 2.8 % |
| 2023 | 2.7 % |
| 2022 | 3.4 % |
| 2021 | 4.9 % |
| 2020 | 7.2 % |
| 2019 | 4.8 % |
| 2018 | 4.5 % |
| 2017 | 4.8 % |
| 2016 | 5.3 % |
| 2015 | 6.5 % |
| 2014 | 7.3 % |
Population estimates, 2020–2024
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 46,492 |
| 2023 | 46,161 |
| 2022 | 46,047 |
| 2021 | 46,004 |
| 2020 | 46,130 |