County / FIPS 28127
Simpson County
Mississippi
Simpson County runs 9 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 2 Medicare-certified hospitals reporting to CMS, of which 2 carry an overall star rating.
At a glance
Public schools
9
Hospitals
2
With a star rating
2
Land area
589
Simpson 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
25,691
Median household income
$56,381
Poverty rate
20.0%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$122,200
Median gross rent
$852
Bachelor's degree or higher
16.7%
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 Simpson County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$171.5M
Per resident
$6,608
Change since FY2021
+7%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $160M |
| 2022 | $174M |
| 2023 | $165M |
| 2024 | $161M |
| 2025 | $171M |
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. Simpson County ranks 1779th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Simpson County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Magee General Hospital | Magee | |
| Simpson General Hospital Cah | Mendenhall |
Public schools in Simpson County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Magee Elementary School | Simpson Co School Dist | Magee | 504 |
| Magee High School | Simpson Co School Dist | Magee | 405 |
| Magee Middle School | Simpson Co School Dist | Magee | 325 |
| Mendenhall Elementary School | Simpson Co School Dist | Mendenhall | 579 |
| Mendenhall High School | Simpson Co School Dist | Mendenhall | 519 |
| Mendenhall Junior High School | Simpson Co School Dist | Mendenhall | 243 |
| Simpson Central School | Simpson Co School Dist | Pinola | 433 |
| Simpson Co Technical Center | Simpson Co School Dist | Mendenhall | — |
| Simpson County Achievement Center | Simpson Co School Dist | Magee | — |