Rank 37 of 51 by domestic migration per 1,000

Mississippi

Mississippi lost 20,099 residents to other states and gained 19,910 from other countries — enough to offset 99% of the domestic loss, but not to reverse it. Net migration is still −189. International arrivals are slowing the decline here, not ending it.

Measured as counts rather than rates, the channel that moved the most people in Mississippi over 2021–2024 was domestic migration. That is a statement about volume, not direction: a channel can be the largest by losing.

Domestic migrationmoved the most people−20,099−6.8 per 1,000 residentsMovers arriving from, or leaving for, other US states.

International migration+19,910+6.8 per 1,000 residentsNet arrivals from outside the United States.

Births minus deaths−15,029−5.1 per 1,000 residentsNatural change. Not migration at all, and frequently mistaken for it.

Year by year

Counts of people. Bars share one scale across all 4 years and all three channels, so a short bar is a small number rather than a rescaled one.

Mississippi, components of population change. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates: components of change.
Year	Domestic	International	Births	Deaths	Natural
2021	−5,802	+632	35,004	41,641	−6,637
2022	−5,877	+6,869	34,925	40,616	−5,691
2023	−3,481	+5,620	35,064	35,781	−717
2024	−4,939	+6,789	33,859	35,843	−1,984

Ranked just above and below Mississippi

36Nebraska−6.5 / 1,000 38Kansas−7.4 / 1,000

More on Mississippi

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Vintage-year 2020 is published for a partial period and carries no companion rate, so it is excluded rather than shown alongside four full years it cannot be compared with. A work of the U.S. government: no copyright subsists (17 U.S.C. §105). Source file