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Hinds County, MS — Auto repair Saturation

How many auto repair exist per person present — residents plus daytime workers — by ZIP code, compared with the U.S. average. Establishment data: Census ZBP 2023. Population: ACS 2024 5-year. 31 ZIP codes analyzed.

Includes: Auto repair & maintenance shops · Body, paint & interior repair. Counted together because official statistics use one 811121 code.

Not enough published data to rank this market: 30 of 31 ZIP cells are withheld (each 0–2 businesses). The county total is somewhere between 3 and 63.

Why a range: Census does not publish a ZIP-by-industry count when that ZIP has 0–2 businesses. 30 ZIP cells in this county are withheld, 20 of them with residents. Each could hold 0, 1, or 2 businesses: counting them all as 0 gives the low end, counting them all as 2 gives the high end — the data cannot say where the truth sits. The density range uses only the populated cells, since ZIPs without residents are excluded from per-person rates. How ranges work

Range spans the U.S. rate   Hinds County auto repair — 13–190% of the U.S. rate

3 auto repair are counted in Hinds County — 0.1 per 10,000 people present (residents + daytime workers), 13% of the U.S. rate of 0.9.

On the comparable ZIP set (ZIPs with a published count in every year), the total has fallen 40% between 2015 and 2023 (5 → 3). That set is smaller than today's county total. 2020–2021 were pandemic-distorted, and Census rounds counts, so small moves are within noise.

BLS QCEW puts the latest county-wide count (2026 Q1) at 19 establishments, the freshest available signal.

Measured density: Hinds County sits at 13% of the U.S. rate for auto repair. 20 ZIPs with population have no published count (each 0–2 businesses), so the true per-capita rate is between 13% and 190% of the U.S. rate. Why.

This is a supply-side read: it counts existing auto repair and the people present, not foot traffic, income, rent, or whether locals want more. Treat low density as a question to check, not an answer.

Auto repair
3–63
published count; upper bound counts each withheld ZIP cell as 2 (30 cells) (2023)
Per 10,000 present
0.1
residents + daytime workers
U.S. average
0.9
per 10,000 present
County index
0.13×
vs. U.S.
Latest quarter (QCEW)
19
2026 Q1 — county total
Residents
220,037
21 ZIPs with data
Workers
83,598
jobs located in county

Is the area growing?

Population
211,975
Census PEP, July 1 2024
Change since 2020
−6.5%
−14,797 people
Net migration 2024
−2,699
international +696, domestic −3,395
Jobs located here
119,224
LODES 2022, −4.7% since 2019

Hinds County had an estimated 211,975 residents on July 1, 2024 — 6.5% fewer than in 2020 (−14,797). In the latest year it lost 2,542 people: births minus deaths +153, international migration +696, domestic migration −3,395. Components are published separately and may not sum exactly.

119,224 jobs were located in the county in 2022 (−4.7% since 2019), and 91,334 employed residents lived there (−6.1% since 2019). LODES counts wage and salary jobs covered by unemployment insurance plus federal jobs; it excludes the self-employed and military, and counts jobs rather than unique people. 2019→2022 spans the pandemic, so read it as one change, not a trend.

Population and migration say whether the customer base is growing. They do not say whether people want another business of this type. Definitions and limits →  ·  Full county detail →

ZIP gaining residents
2015–19 → 2020–24
Change
39056 Clinton
+4.2%
ZIP losing residents
2015–19 → 2020–24
Change
39203 Jackson
−38.7%
39212 Jackson
−24.1%
39204 Jackson
−21.8%

ACS 5-year estimates for 2015–2019 and 2020–2024. Only ZIPs with at least 2,000 residents in both windows and a change larger than the survey margin of error (90%) are listed — small ZIPs move a lot on paper without a real signal.

Nonemployer businesses

Not shown. Census publishes only a broader group that also includes auto glass shops, so an auto-repair-only nonemployer count is not published.

Census Nonemployer Statistics 2024 (NAICS 2022). We do not approximate this figure.

Saturation map

Each ZIP area is shaded by its density of this business type per person present (residents + workers) vs. the U.S. average. Click any ZIP to zoom to its boundary, see its numbers, and switch to aerial imagery. Individual mapped shops appear as dots at street level — Show locations zooms you in to them (scroll or double-click to zoom).

Basemap:
Under 50% 50–100% 100–150% 150–250% 250%+ 0–2 (not published) / no data ZIP total (dot size) Mapped shop (OpenStreetMap, street level)

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, tiles by OpenFreeMap.

White dots are ZIP totals from the official Census count — the bigger the dot, the more auto repair in that ZIP. They are aggregated, not individual shops. Turquoise dots are individual locations mapped in OpenStreetMap, shown only at street level; they are crowd-sourced and indicative, may be incomplete, and do not equal the official counts. Only the official ZIP totals feed the saturation index.

Market trend — down 40% since 2015

Number of auto repair in Hinds County across 2015–2023, on a consistent set of ZIP codes present in every year — so changes are real, not ZIP-boundary artifacts. 2015/2018 are pre-pandemic baselines; 2020/2021 are COVID-distorted.

5
2015
4
2018
4
2020
3
2021
3
2022
3
2023

Highest measured density

ZIP
vs. U.S. average
Index

Lowest measured density

ZIP
vs. U.S. average
Index
Low measured density is not evidence of opportunity. A ZIP with few auto repair may simply lack foot traffic, retail space, or demand. We rank only residential and mixed ZIPs here; employment hubs and visitor destinations are listed separately below. ZIPs where Census did not publish a count (0–2 businesses) are not ranked: they may be the least served of all, but the data cannot tell 0 from 1 or 2. Verify those locally.

Employment hubs & destinations

These ZIPs have far more workers (or visitors) than residents, so their counts are driven by daytime and visitor demand — not a place to read "shortage" from resident numbers alone.

ZIPNeighborhoodType ResidentsWorkersAuto repairIndex
39201Jackson Employment hub 8587,158 3 781%
39216Jackson Employment hub 2,90214,521 0–2 —

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All ZIP codes

Click a column header to sort. Index = auto repair per 10,000 people present (residents + 0.5×workers) ÷ the U.S. average. 100% = exactly average.

ZIPNeighborhood ResidentsWorkersAuto repair Per 10kIndexStatus
39201Jackson 8587,158 3 6.8 781% Very high density
39041Bolton 2,704424 0–2 — — Not published
39056Clinton 26,8368,272 0–2 — — Not published
39058Clinton 961995 0–2 — — Not published
39060Clinton —63 0–2 — — Not published
39066Edwards 4,202121 0–2 — — Not published
39154Raymond 9,2551,606 0–2 — — Not published
39170Terry 9,069601 0–2 — — Not published
39174Tougaloo 485542 0–2 — — Not published
39175Utica 4,259189 0–2 — — Not published
39202Jackson 6,8328,816 0–2 — — Not published
39203Jackson 4,019524 0–2 — — Not published
39204Jackson 13,2496,489 0–2 — — Not published
39205Jackson —651 0–2 — — Not published
39206Jackson 23,2575,158 0–2 — — Not published
39207Jackson —75 0–2 — — Not published
39209Jackson 25,7765,987 0–2 — — Not published
39210Jackson 712633 0–2 — — Not published
39211Jackson 23,8389,695 0–2 — — Not published
39212Jackson 25,6592,125 0–2 — — Not published
39213Jackson 18,6916,015 0–2 — — Not published
39215Jackson —130 0–2 — — Not published
39216Jackson 2,90214,521 0–2 — — Not published
39217Jackson 2,125138 0–2 — — Not published
39225Jackson —19 0–2 — — Not published
39236Jackson —166 0–2 — — Not published
39269Jackson 023 0–2 — — Not published
39272Byram 14,3483,589 0–2 — — Not published
39282Jackson —32 0–2 — — Not published
39284Jackson —74 0–2 — — Not published
39296Jackson —47 0–2 — — Not published

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Census withholds some ZIP-by-industry cells to protect small businesses. 0–2 means the cell was not published (Census publishes industry counts only at 3+ per ZIP), so the ZIP is left unranked rather than counted as zero. ~ means the count is estimated from the broader industry group and can be off by a business or two.

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Methodology & sources

Establishments. U.S. Census ZIP Code Business Patterns (ZBP 2023), NAICS 811121 — automotive body, paint & interior repair. Counts establishments with paid employees. ZBP is published annually with a ~2-year lag.

Fresh county signal. BLS QCEW (quarterly) is newer than ZBP — 2026 Q1 shows 19 establishments county-wide for this industry. It cannot be broken down by ZIP.

Population. U.S. Census American Community Survey 2024 5-year ZCTA population (table B01003). Workers are the ZIP's total employment from the same 2023 ZBP file.

Demand ("people present"). Demand comes from residents and daytime workers: residents + 0.5 × workers. This is the single documented assumption in the model and can be tuned.

Index. index = (ZIP establishments ÷ ZIP demand × 10,000) ÷ the U.S. average for this industry (0.87 per 10,000 present). It is a supply-side density measure; it does not capture income, rent, tourism, or whether locals actually want more.

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