Mississippi Census

Online Resources

 * Mississippi, State and Territorial Census Collection, 1792-1866 Index and images ($)
 * Mississippi, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1805-1890, ($), index
 * — index and images
 * Images.

Indexes: fiche, film, or book
For a list of microform and book indexes for the population schedules of Mississippi, click here

Microfilm images

 * 1850-1880--Mortality schedules are at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

Indexes: fiche, film, or book
For a list of microform and book indexes for the non-population schedules of Mississippi, click here.

State, territorial, and colonial censuses
Censuses were taken in Mississippi in different years than the federal censuses. These censuses may have different data compared to federal censuses. Check these censuses for more information on a family.

Some of these censuses have been indexed and can be searched: Ancestry.com - $ (need to be a member) AncestryInstitution.com (free if you are in a Family History Center)


 * 1818-1880 State census returns are available online:, courtesy: FamilySearch - free.


 * 1866 State census. Bolivar, Claiborne, Holmes, Issaquena, Jasper, Jefferson, Marion, Simpson, Smith, and Wayne counties.
 * 1860 State census. Choctaw County.
 * 1853 State census. Adams (excluding Natchez), Amite, Clarke, Copiah, Greene, Hancock, Itawamba, Jefferson, Jones, Lauderdale, Noxubee, Panola, Perry, Rankin, and Wayne counties.
 * 1850 State census. Hinds County.
 * 1845 State census. Amite, Neshoba, Newton, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Panola, Perry, Pike, Pontotoc, Rankin, Scott, Simpson (totals), Smith, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Tippah, Tishomingo, Tunica, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Wilkinson, Winston (totals), Yalobusha, and Yazooo (totals) counties.
 * 1841 State census. Adams, Attala, Bolivar, Chickasaw, Clarke (totals), Coahoma, Copiah, Covington, DeSoto (totals), Franklin, Greene (totals), Hinds (totals), Itawamba, Jackson (totals), Jefferson (totals), Jones, Kemper (totals), Lauderdale (totals), Lawrence, Leake, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Monroe, Neshoba, Noxubee (totals), Oktibbeha, Panola, Perry (totals), Pike (totals), Scott, Simpson, Smith, Tallahatchie, Tippah, Tishomingo (totals), Tunica, Washington, Wayne, and Yazooo counties.
 * 1840 State census. Choctaw (totals) County.
 * 1837 State census. Chickasaw, Choctaw, Itawamba, Jones, Kemper, Lowndes, Oktibbeha, Panola, Pontotoc, Simpson, Tishomingo, and Winston counties.
 * 1833 State census. Amite (totals), and Franklin counties.
 * 1830 State census. Adams (Natchez only), Amite (totals), Hancock, and Lawrence counties.
 * 1825 State census. Claiborne (totals), Copiah (totals), Greene (totals), Hancock (totals), Hinds (totals), Jackson, Jefferson (totals), Lawrence (totals), Marion (totals), Perry (totals), Pike (totals), Simpson (totals), Warren (totals), Wilkinson, and Yazooo (totals) counties.
 * 1824 State census. Amite (totals), Copiah, Hinds, Lawrence, Simpson (births and deaths), and Yazooo (totals) counties.
 * 1823 State census. Adams (births and deaths), Bainbridge (now Covington), Claiborne (births and deaths), Covington, Hancock, Jefferson, Lawrence, Marion, Perry, and Wilkinson counties.
 * 1822 State census. Claiborne (births and deaths), Copiah (totals), and Wilkinson and counties.
 * 1820 State census. Amite, Franklin, Marion, Pike, Wayne, and Wilkinson counties.
 * 1818 State census. Adams County.
 * 1816 Territorial census. Adams, Amite, Baldwin (territorial county), Claiborne, Clarke (territorial county), Franklin, Greene, Jefferson, Marion, Monroe (territorial county), Pike, Warren,Wayne, Wilkinson, and Winston counties.
 * 1813 Territorial census. Wilkinson County.
 * 1811 Territorial census. Available online:, courtesy: FamilySearch - free.
 * 1810 Territorial census. Adams, Amite, Baldwin (territorial county), Claiborne, Franklin, Jefferson, Warren, Washington (territorial county), and Wilkinson counties. Available online:, courtesy: FamilySearch - free.
 * 1809 Territorial census. Available online:, courtesy: FamilySearch - free.
 * 1808 Territorial census. Jefferson, and Washington counties.
 * 1805 Territorial census. Jefferson, and Wilkinson counties.
 * 1801 Territorial census. Available online:, courtesy: FamilySearch - free.
 * 1792 Colonial census. Natchez District (now Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Franklin, Jefferson, Warren and Wilkinson counties)
 * 1788 Colonial census.
 * 1787 Colonial census.
 * 1784 Colonial census.
 * 1723 Colonial census. Natchez.

Most of the original state, territorial, and colonial censuses are available at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

Existing and lost censuses
For a list of available and missing Mississippi censuses, click here.

Why use a census?
A well-indexed census is one of the easiest ways to locate where an ancestor's family lived and when they lived there. You can also use censuses to follow the changes in a family over time, and identify neighbors. These and other clues provided by censuses are important because they help find additional kinds of records about the family.

More about censuses
Click here for additional details about how to use censuses, such as:


 * index searching tips
 * analyzing and using what you find
 * census accuracy
 * historical background
 * contents of various census years and types

Sources and footnotes
A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:

Mississippi State Archives, Various Records (FamilySearch HIstorical Recoords)