The graph below ranks each Mississippi County by total of Black residents according to the 2012 census estimates.
Mississippi total of Black population by county
| County | Black Population |
| Hinds |  173,208 |
| Harrison | 45,326 |
| DeSoto | 38,918 |
| Madison | 38,042 |
| Washington | 35,706 |
| Lauderdale | 34,671 |
| Jackson | 30,949 |
| Rankin | 28,454 |
| Forrest | 28,231 |
| Lowndes | 26,267 |
| Lee | 23,959 |
| Leflore | 22,948 |
| Warren | 22,899 |
| Bolivar | 22,083 |
| Pike | 21,062 |
| Sunflower | 20,649 |
| Jones | 19,889 |
| Coahoma | 19,327 |
| Oktibbeha | 18,029 |
| Marshall | 17,359 |
| Adams | 17,262 |
| Panola | 17,007 |
| Yazoo | 16,114 |
| Holmes | 15,519 |
| Copiah | 14,801 |
| Lafayette | 12,171 |
| Clay | 12,032 |
| Lamar | 11,606 |
| Monroe | 11,182 |
| Scott | 10,767 |
| Lincoln | 10,678 |
| Simpson | 9,735 |
| Leake | 9,548 |
| Grenada | 9,099 |
| Winston | 8,745 |
| Tate | 8,721 |
| Jasper | 8,691 |
| Marion | 8,631 |
| Tallahatchie | 8,520 |
| Attala | 8,063 |
| Noxubee | 8,049 |
| Wayne | 8,035 |
| Claiborne | 7,877 |
| Tunica | 7,819 |
| Chickasaw | 7,535 |
| Jefferson Davis | 7,193 |
| Pearl River | 7,016 |
| Covington | 7,005 |
| Humphreys | 6,887 |
| Walthall | 6,706 |
| Wilkinson | 6,620 |
| Newton | 6,557 |
| Jefferson | 6,541 |
| Neshoba | 6,326 |
| Kemper | 6,269 |
| Clarke | 5,706 |
| Quitman | 5,396 |
| Amite | 5,368 |
| Montgomery | 4,864 |
| Yalobusha | 4,700 |
| Pontotoc | 4,514 |
| Alcorn | 4,505 |
| Calhoun | 4,230 |
| Union | 4,082 |
| Lawrence | 3,893 |
| Greene | 3,861 |
| Smith | 3,846 |
| Prentiss | 3,619 |
| Stone | 3,576 |
| Hancock | 3,531 |
| Tippah | 3,530 |
| Carroll | 3,497 |
| Sharkey | 3,397 |
| Benton | 3,250 |
| Franklin | 2,785 |
| Choctaw | 2,517 |
| Perry | 2,431 |
| Webster | 2,005 |
| George | 1,922 |
| Itawamba | 1,495 |
| Issaquena | 897 |
| Tishomingo | 549 |