Editing Yazoo City, Mississippi (section)

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|align=left
|1880= 2542
|1890= 3286
|1900= 4944
|1910= 6796
|1920= 5244
|1930= 5579
|1940= 7258
|1950= 9746
|1960= 11236
|1970= 11688
|1980= 12426
|1990= 12427
|2000= 14550
|2010= 11403
|2020= 10316
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|author=United States Census Bureau|author-link=United States Census Bureau|access-date=February 5, 2014}}</ref>
}}
[[File:Yazoo City tornado damage.JPG|thumb|right|Yazoo City sign after April 24, 2010, tornado]]
[[File:FEMA - 44232 - AmeriCorps at Work in Yazoo City, MS.jpg|thumb|right|[[AmeriCorps]] volunteers cleaning up tornado damage, May 2010]]
[[File:Ricks Memorial Library Yazoo.jpg|thumb|right|Ricks Memorial Library, Yazoo City]]

===2020 census===
{| class="wikitable"
|+Yazoo City Racial Composition<ref>{{Cite web|title=Explore Census Data|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=1600000US2881520&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|access-date=2021-12-08|website=data.census.gov}}</ref>
!Race
!Num.
!Perc.
|-
|[[White (U.S. Census)|White]]
|1,138
|11.03%
|-
|[[African American (U.S. Census)|Black or African American]]
|8,830
|85.6%
|-
|[[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]]
|6
|0.06%
|-
|[[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]]
|61
|0.59%
|-
|[[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]]
|4
|0.04%
|-
|[[Race (United States Census)|Other/Mixed]]
|201
|1.95%
|-
|[[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]]
|76
|0.74%
|}
As of the [[2020 United States census]], there were 10,316 people, 3,670 households, and 2,050 families residing in the city.

===2010 census===
As of the [[2010 United States Census]], there were 11,403 people living in the city. The racial makeup of the city was 82.0% Black, 16.1% White, 0.1% Native American, 0.5% Asian and 0.5% from two or more races. 0.7% were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

===2000 census===
As of the [[census]] of 2000, 14,550 people, 4,271 households, and 2,968 families resided in the city. The population density was {{convert|1,349.2|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The 4,676 housing units averaged 433.6 per mi<sup>2</sup> (167.5/km<sup>2</sup>). The [[Race (United States Census)|racial makeup]] of the city was 28.73% White, 69.68% African American, 0.18% Native American, 0.58% Asian, 0.23% from other races, and 0.60% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 7.47% of the population.

Of the 4,271 households, 37.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 31.5% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 32.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.5% were not families. About 27.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.85 and the average family size was 3.49.

In the city, the population was distributed as 29.0% under the age of 18, 10.5% from 18 to 24, 31.3% from 25 to 44, 17.3% from 45 to 64, and 11.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females, there were 112.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 115.9 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $19,893, and for a family was $22,470. Males had a median income of $26,109 versus $18,650 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the city was $9,251. About 35.0% of families and 40.2% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 52.5% of those under age 18 and 23.5% of those age 65 or over.

===Jewish community===
The [[Institute of Southern Jewish Life]] stated that the Jewish community has been characterized by assimilation and was "small, but influential".<ref name=ISJL>{{cite web|url=http://www.isjl.org/history/archive/ms/yazoocity.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071005094135/http://www.isjl.org/history/archive/ms/yazoocity.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2007-10-05|title=Yazoo City, Mississippi|work=[[Institute of Southern Jewish Life]]|date=2007-10-05|access-date=2019-11-18}}</ref> 44 Jews lived in the community in 1878, but a flood of the [[Mississippi River]] in 1882 meant that additional Jews displaced by the flood came. There were 61 Jews in the city by 1937. The Jews in the community did not create a congregation, and the nearest houses of worship were, in the mid-20th century, in [[Jackson, Mississippi|Jackson]] and [[Greenwood, Mississippi|Greenwood]].<ref name=ISJL/>