Health care · County · Mississippi
Optometrists and eye clinics in Panola County, MS
How Panola County, MS compares with other counties and the U.S. for optometrists and eye clinics: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 7 out of 100: Very low
Ranked #1,284 of 1,302 scored counties
#22 of 25 scored counties in Mississippi
- Listings
- 7
- 2 chain locations (29%)
- Official establishments
- 5
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $11.5M
- On medical and dental services · $933 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.6M
- 48% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 5.7
- 39% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 32,691
- −1.4% since 2020
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What this means
Panola County scores 7 (very low) on the Groundwork market score for optometrists and eye clinics, ranking #1,284 of 1,302 scored counties and #22 of 25 scored counties in Mississippi. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Household spending on medical and dental services in Panola County comes to about $11.5M a year: $933 per household, 28% below the U.S. average. Spread across 7 optometrists and eye clinics, that is $1.6M per practice, 48% below the U.S. figure of $3.1M. The spending figure covers all medical and dental services, not only optometrists and eye clinics.
Panola County has 7 optometrists and eye clinics on map listings as of September 2026. 2 of them (29%) are chain locations, against 20% across the U.S. That comes to 5.7 for every 10,000 households, 39% above the U.S. rate of 4.1.
In 2023, official counts showed 5 businesses with payroll in Panola County classed as offices of optometrists. That is one for every 2,462 households, against one for every 5,742 across the U.S. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Panola County declined 1.4%, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How Panola County compares
The same measures for Mississippi and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all medical and dental services by the optometrists and eye clinics counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Panola County | Mississippi | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 5.7 | 3.9 | 4.1 |
| Spending per listing | $1.6M | $2.6M | $3.1M |
| Households per official establishment | 2,462 | 5,756 | 5,742 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +7.0% | +0.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −1.4% | −0.1% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on medical and dental services | $933 | $992 | $1,288 |
| Median household income | $45,945 | $56,447 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 7 | 16 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 4 → 5
- Employees, 2023
- 27
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $821K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 72 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 4The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as offices of optometrists in Panola County, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in Panola County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 32,691−1.4% since 2020
- Households
- 12,312
- Median age
- 38.6
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 71%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 685 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 48
- Median household income
- $45,945+20.0% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $67,388
- Median home value
- $127,800
- Jobs located here
- 10,394
- Daytime population
- 28,953Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Mississippi market ranked →The highest-scoring counties in Mississippi for optometrists and eye clinics, numbered among those based in Mississippi, with Panola County marked.
Top counties in Mississippi
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jackson County, MS | 75 | 11 | 1.9 | $5.5M | +3.0% | #117 of 1,302 |
| 2Rankin County, MS | 62 | 20 | 3.3 | $3.4M | +3.2% | #369 of 1,302 |
| 3DeSoto County, MS | 53 | 32 | 4.5 | $2.6M | +6.3% | #621 of 1,302 |
| 4Harrison County, MS | 51 | 33 | 4.0 | $2.5M | +4.0% | #661 of 1,302 |
| 5Pearl River County, MS | 47 | 9 | 4.1 | $2.4M | +5.6% | #755 of 1,302 |
| 6Jones County, MS | 41 | 9 | 3.6 | $2.7M | −1.0% | #893 of 1,302 |
| 7Madison County, MS | 40 | 27 | 6.1 | $2M | +6.5% | #922 of 1,302 |
| 8Forrest County, MS | 38 | 10 | 3.3 | $2.9M | +1.1% | #939 of 1,302 |
| 9Lauderdale County, MS | 35 | 11 | 3.8 | $2.5M | −3.2% | #1,002 of 1,302 |
| 10Oktibbeha County, MS | 33 | 8 | 3.7 | $2.6M | +0.4% | #1,035 of 1,302 |
| 22Panola County, MS | 7 | 7 | 5.7 | $1.6M | −1.4% | #1,284 of 1,302 |
Other business types in Panola County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Groceries and convenience
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Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many optometrists and eye clinics are in Panola County, MS?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 7 optometrists and eye clinics in Panola County. 2 of them (29%) are chain locations. The listings count optometrists and eye clinics. Official counts show 5 businesses with payroll classed as offices of optometrists in 2023.
How much do households in Panola County, MS spend on medical and dental services?
About $11.5M a year, or $933 per household. That is 28% below the U.S. average (an index of 72, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 7 optometrists and eye clinics on map listings, it comes to $1.6M per practice. That spending covers all medical and dental services, which optometrists and eye clinics share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 12,312 households in Panola County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Panola County, MS compare with the U.S. for optometrists and eye clinics?
Panola County has 5.7 optometrists and eye clinics per 10,000 households, 39% above the U.S. rate of 4.1. Spending per practice is $1.6M, 48% below the U.S. figure of $3.1M. At the U.S. ratio of optometrists and eye clinics to household spending, Panola County would have about 4, against 7 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 2,462 households, against one for every 5,742 across the U.S.
How fast is Panola County, MS growing?
Population estimates put Panola County at 32,691 people in 2025, down 1.4% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 12,312 households. Median household income in Panola County is $45,945, 43% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 20.0%, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. Panola County scores 7 for optometrists and eye clinics (very low), #1,284 of 1,302 scored counties.
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