Jackson is the only city in Mississippi with a population exceeding 100,000 people.įounded in 1821 as new state capital for Mississippi, Jackson is named after General Andrew Jackson, a war hero in the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 and subsequently the seventh U.S. The city sits on the Pearl River and is located in the greater Jackson Prairie region of Mississippi. With a 2020 population of nearly 600,000, metropolitan Jackson is home to over one-fifth of Mississippi's population. Jackson is the anchor for the Jackson metropolitan statistical area, the largest metropolitan area located entirely in the state and the tenth-largest urban area in the Deep South. The city had a population of 153,701 at the 2020 census, a significant decline of 173,514, or 11.42%, since the 2010 census, representing the largest decline in population during the decade of any major U.S. Along with Raymond, Jackson is one of two county seats for Hinds County.

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