Editing Hattiesburg, Mississippi (section)

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1890= 1172
|1900= 4175
|1910= 11733
|1920= 13270
|1930= 18601
|1940= 21026
|1950= 29474
|1960= 34989
|1970= 39648
|1980= 40829
|1990= 41882
|2000= 44779
|2010= 45989
|2020= 48730
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=http://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2016}}</ref>
}}

{| class="wikitable"
|+Hattiesburg racial composition as of 2020<ref>{{Cite web|title=Explore Census Data|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=1600000US2831020&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|access-date=2021-12-16|website=data.census.gov}}</ref>
!Race
!Num.
!Perc.
|-
|[[African American (U.S. Census)|Black or African American]] (non-Hispanic)
|24,804
|50.9%
|-
|[[White (U.S. Census)|White]] (non-Hispanic)
|19,172
|39.34%
|-
|[[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]]
|89
|0.18%
|-
|[[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]]
|830
|1.7%
|-
|[[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]]
|28
|0.06%
|-
|[[Race (United States Census)|Other/Mixed]]
|1,552
|3.18%
|-
|[[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]]
|2,255
|4.63%
|}
In 2000, there were 44,779 people, 17,295 households, and 9,391 families residing within the city limits. By the publication of the [[2020 United States census]], there were 48,730 people, 17,778 households, and 9,165 families residing in the city, reflecting the continued positive increase in municipal population since the [[1900 United States census|1900 census]].

===Religion===
In 2010 the Hattiesburg Metropolitan area has an Evangelical Protestant majority with 66,000 members. The [[Southern Baptist Convention]] had 85 congregations and 53,000 members. The [[United Methodist Church]] had 35 congregations and 9,000 members. The third largest was the [[Presbyterian Church in America]] with 5 congregations and 1,518 members.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thearda.com/rcms2010/r/m/25620/rcms2010_25620_metro_name_2010.asp |title=The Association of Religion Data Archives &#124; Maps & Reports |website=Thearda.com |access-date=2016-08-10}}</ref>