Moss Point, Mississippi Moss Point, Mississippi City Hall in Moss Point, Mississippi City Hall in Moss Point, Mississippi Location of Moss Point in the State of Mississippi Location of Moss Point in the State of Mississippi Moss Point, Mississippi is positioned in the US Moss Point, Mississippi - Moss Point, Mississippi Moss Point is a town/city in Jackson County, Mississippi.

On August 29, 2005, Moss Point was hit by the strong east side of Hurricane Katrina, and much of the town/city was flooded or finished (see details below).

Moss Point has a total region of 26.8 square miles (69 km2), of which 25.0 square miles (65 km2) is territory and 1.8 square miles (4.7 km2) (6.61%) is water.

Moss Point, Mississippi (right edge) is north of Pascagoula, on U.S.

As of the census of 2000, there were 17,653 citizens , 6,714 homeholds, and 5,228 families residing in the city.

The populace density was 634.0 citizens per square mile (344.8/km ).

There were 6,237 housing units at an average density of 249.4 per square mile (96.3/km ).

In the city, the populace was spread out with 26.8% under the age of 18, 9.5% from 18 to 24, 25.8% from 25 to 44, 25.3% from 45 to 64, and 12.6% who were 65 years of age or older.

The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $32,075, and the median income for a family was $37,712.

About 15.8% of families and 17.8% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 23.2% of those under age 18 and 17.3% of those age 65 or over.

The town/city of Moss Point is served by the Moss Point School District.

Moss Point *Number of reported crimes per 100,000 population.

City-data.com crime index average for 3 years is 615.8 per 100,000.

On August 29, 2005, Moss Point was hit by the strong easterly side of Hurricane Katrina, when it passed 30 miles (48 km) east of central New Orleans with minimal gale-force winds.

However, on the strong side of Hurricane Katrina, much of Moss Point was flooded or finished in one day, by the strong hurricane-force winds which lasted a several hours and a storm surge exceeding 20 feet (6 m) in some sections. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Burlington, Vermont became the sister town/city of Moss Point and provided much-needed aid to the city. Damarius Bilbo, NFL football player and sports agent, graduated from Moss Point High School in 2001 John Brock, CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises (graduated from Moss Point High School in 1967) "Crime rate in Moss Point, Mississippi (MS): murders, rapes, robberies, assaults, burglaries, thefts, auto thefts, arson, law enforcement employees, police officers, crime map".

Gary Tuchman, Transcript of "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees" (2006-08-29) 19:00 ET, CNN, CNN-ACooper - 082906 GARY TUCHMAN, CNN Correspondent: Responds to Anderson Cooper that it felt like it would never end, saying winds were at least 100 miles per hour in Gulfport for seven hours, between about 7:00 a.m.

For another five or six hours, on each side of that, they had hurricane-force winds over 75 miles per hour; much of the town/city of Gulfport, Mississippi, in Harrison County of 71,000 was then under water.

Moss Point receives aid from Burlington, VT; turn into sister metros/cities City of Moss Point Municipalities and communities of Jackson County, Mississippi, United States