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Insurance agencies in Newton County, MS
How Newton County, MS compares with other counties and the U.S. for insurance agencies: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 64 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #645 of 2,272 scored counties
#14 of 60 scored counties in Mississippi
- Listings
- 9
- 3 chain locations (33%)
- Official establishments
- 7
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $21M
- On vehicle insurance · $2,719 a household
- Spending per listing
- $2.3M
- 86% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 11.7
- 25% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 20,960
- −1.4% since 2020
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What this means
Household spending on vehicle insurance in Newton County comes to about $21M a year: $2,719 per household, 39% above the U.S. average. Spread across 9 insurance agencies, that is $2.3M per agency, 86% above the U.S. figure of $1.3M.
Newton County has 9 insurance agencies on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 33% of them, against 21% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 11.7, 25% below the U.S. rate of 15.6.
In 2023, official counts showed 7 businesses with payroll in Newton County classed as insurance agencies and brokerages. That is one for every 1,102 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Newton County declined 1.4%, against +3.1% for the U.S. Newton County scores 64 (upper middle) on the Groundwork market score for insurance agencies, ranking #645 of 2,272 scored counties and #14 of 60 scored counties in Mississippi.
How Newton County compares
The same measures for Mississippi and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all vehicle insurance by the insurance agencies 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 | Newton County | Mississippi | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 11.7 | 16.3 | 15.6 |
| Spending per listing | $2.3M | $1.5M | $1.3M |
| Households per official establishment | 1,102 | 929 | 966 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +1.5% | −1.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −1.4% | −0.1% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on vehicle insurance | $2,719 | $2,496 | $1,957 |
| Median household income | $50,540 | $56,447 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 64 | 54 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 7 → 7
- Employees, 2023
- 18
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $591K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 93 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 17The 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 insurance agencies and brokerages in Newton 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 Newton County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 20,960−1.4% since 2020
- Households
- 7,713
- Median age
- 38.0
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 79%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 578 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 37
- Median household income
- $50,540+40.6% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $74,166
- Median home value
- $106,300
- Jobs located here
- 5,289
- Daytime population
- 18,287Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Mississippi
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Marshall County, MS | 88 | 8 | 6.1 | $4.7M | +2.6% | #78 of 2,272 |
| 2Tate County, MS | 81 | 11 | 10.0 | $2.9M | +2.1% | #197 of 2,272 |
| 3George County, MS | 81 | 9 | 9.7 | $2.8M | +8.1% | #200 of 2,272 |
| 4DeSoto County, MS | 79 | 99 | 13.9 | $2M | +6.3% | #254 of 2,272 |
| 5Stone County, MS | 77 | 8 | 11.9 | $2.3M | +7.2% | #293 of 2,272 |
| 6Tippah County, MS | 76 | 9 | 11.2 | $2.5M | −1.6% | #312 of 2,272 |
| 7Itawamba County, MS | 73 | 12 | 12.5 | $2.2M | +1.3% | #385 of 2,272 |
| 8Walthall County, MS | 70 | 5 | 9.5 | $2.9M | +0.4% | #452 of 2,272 |
| 9Greene County, MS | 70 | 5 | 12.2 | $2.1M | +1.3% | #469 of 2,272 |
| 10Jackson County, MS | 68 | 85 | 14.7 | $1.7M | +3.0% | #532 of 2,272 |
| 14Newton County, MS | 64 | 9 | 11.7 | $2.3M | −1.4% | #645 of 2,272 |
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Questions
How many insurance agencies are in Newton County, MS?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 9 insurance agencies in Newton County. 3 of them (33%) are chain locations. The listings count insurance agencies. Official counts show 7 businesses with payroll classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in 2023.
How much do households in Newton County, MS spend on vehicle insurance?
About $21M a year, or $2,719 per household. That is 39% above the U.S. average (an index of 139, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 9 insurance agencies on map listings, it comes to $2.3M per agency. It is estimated from the incomes of the 7,713 households in Newton County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Newton County, MS compare with the U.S. for insurance agencies?
Newton County has 11.7 insurance agencies per 10,000 households, 25% below the U.S. rate of 15.6. Spending per agency is $2.3M, 86% above the U.S. figure of $1.3M. At the U.S. ratio of insurance agencies to household spending, Newton County would have about 17, against 9 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,102 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S.
How fast is Newton County, MS growing?
Population estimates put Newton County at 20,960 people in 2025, down 1.4% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 7,713 households. Median household income in Newton County is $50,540, 37% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 40.6%, 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. Newton County scores 64 for insurance agencies (upper middle), #645 of 2,272 scored counties.
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