County / FIPS 28071
Lafayette County
Mississippi
Lafayette County runs 13 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 1 Medicare-certified hospital reporting to CMS, of which 1 carry an overall star rating.
At a glance
Public schools
13
Hospitals
1
With a star rating
1
Land area
632
Lafayette County in numbers
American Community Survey five-year estimates ending 2024. These are sample estimates, not a count — each carries a margin of error, and where that margin is too wide to mean anything the figure is withheld rather than printed.
Population
58,327
Median household income
$67,185
Poverty rate
18.5%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$315,400
Median gross rent
$1,085
Bachelor's degree or higher
46.5%
One figure is withheld above. The Census Bureau publishes them, but with a margin of error wider than 30% of the value — which for a place this size means the survey sampled too few households to say. They are left out rather than shown with a caveat nobody reads.
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Lafayette County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$470.2M
Per resident
$8,425
Change since FY2021
+5%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $449M |
| 2022 | $373M |
| 2023 | $401M |
| 2024 | $438M |
| 2025 | $470M |
Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. Lafayette County ranks 911th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Lafayette County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Baptist Memorial Hospital North Ms | Oxford |
Public schools in Lafayette County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bramlett Elementary School | Oxford School District | Oxford | 742 |
| Central Elementary | Oxford School District | Oxford | 694 |
| Della Davidson Elementary | Oxford School District | Oxford | 739 |
| Lafayette Elementary School | Lafayette Co School Dist | Oxford | 734 |
| Lafayette High School | Lafayette Co School Dist | Oxford | 868 |
| Lafayette Middle School | Lafayette Co School Dist | Oxford | 447 |
| Lafayette Upper Elementary School | Lafayette Co School Dist | Oxford | 823 |
| Oxford Early Childhood Center | Oxford School District | Oxford | 213 |
| Oxford High School | Oxford School District | Oxford | 1,345 |
| Oxford Intermediate School | Oxford School District | Oxford | 336 |
| Oxford Middle School | Oxford School District | Oxford | 697 |
| Oxf/Laf School of Applied Tech | Lafayette Co School Dist | Oxford | — |
| Oxford Learning Center | Oxford School District | Oxford | — |