Compare Mississippi sheriff department costs

Sheriff department cost and staffing across all 82 counties. Click a column header to sort. Hover a column header to see what it measures. Data as of 2026-08-12.

A note on data vintages and definitions. Population is the US Census Bureau's 2018-2022 American Community Survey 5-year estimate. Sheriff staffing is not currently loaded for Mississippi, so the staffing columns show a dash throughout this table. They previously carried the US Census Bureau's Census of Governments Employment 2022 figure, which counts a county government's police protection and corrections employment by function code rather than by agency. That total includes the county probation department, the coroner and the crime lab, and it excludes the sheriff's own court services staff, so it does not describe a sheriff's office. Staffing will return here when a county-published figure is loaded. County jail data has not yet been loaded for Mississippi. No Mississippi state agency publishes county jail facility data; the Mississippi State Department of Health's inspection authority covers only the state penitentiary at Parchman (msdh.ms.gov), and county jail facility data nationally is otherwise available only through the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics' Annual Survey of Jails. Sheriff department budget data has not yet been loaded for Mississippi. Sheriff names were collected from the Mississippi Sheriffs' Association directory and machine-verified against county sources in July 2026; 81 of 82 counties are named. Washington County's directory entry lists office contact information only, with no named sheriff, consistent with a vacancy. Ten counties (Bolivar, Carroll, Chickasaw, Harrison, Hinds, Jasper, Jones, Panola, Tallahatchie, and Yalobusha) are divided into two judicial districts under one elected countywide sheriff rather than two separately elected officials.