Rankin County, recognized in the year 1828, was given the name from Christopher Rankin, a Mississippi congressman, and it has the county seat in Brandon. The largest town of the County is Pearl. With a total area of 806.09 sq mi, it houses over 0.14 million people with an intermingling cohabitation of White, Native American, black or African American, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, Pacific Islander, and others with more than 42K households and 31.1K families.

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