How Batesville is run
Batesville spent $28.3 million in the year to September 30, 2024, about $3,859 per resident.
What stands out about how Batesville is run
Read from the town’s budget, meetings and records. The page puts what stands out first.
About $3,859 per resident a year, or $10.57 a day
The biggest line: water & other utilities, at 23% of spending.
Thank you for being a neighbor
South Panola School District
Batesville’s K–12 school district, shared with Courtland, Pope, Crowder. It’s its own government, with a budget separate from the town’s.
Of the $12,044 per pupil, $7,164 goes to the classroom (teachers, aides, supplies); the rest to buses, buildings, counselors and administration. Building projects and debt payments aren’t in the per-pupil figure.
Mississippi districts overall: 33% local, 45% state, 23% federal.
School year 2023–24. Census Bureau school finance survey.
One full-time town employee for every 37 residents
On the payroll in March 2025.
By department full-time, plus part-time
Pay is March payroll times twelve, so it’s approximate. Part-timers count half in the bar lengths.
Who’s in charge in Batesville
Local officials aren’t in the public records we use for Batesville yet. Neighbors can add them.
Per resident, spending is up 7% since 2022
Spending per resident, by fiscal year. Prices rose too: about 4% a year in 2022–2024.
Spending per resident by year
full-time in 2025, up from 172 in 2022.
* A Census Bureau estimate for that year (the town didn’t report most of its figures).
The typical homeowner pays $1,418 a year
Every local property tax on the home: town, schools and county. About 0.64% of the home’s value, vs 0.72% across Mississippi.
Typical yearly bill next door and statewide
The Housing page’s calculator splits a monthly payment into loan, tax and insurance at Batesville’s rate.
Can I afford it? →The median bill homeowners report to the Census survey (bills of $10,000+ are reported as “$10,000+”). The effective rate is that bill ÷ the median home value: a rough guide, not the official tax rate.
From town hall to Washington
Every level of government that speaks for Batesville.
- 1Your cityMayor & councilLocal officials aren’t on record yet.
- 2Mississippi HouseBatesville is split between 2 districts
- 3Mississippi SenateState senator
- 4GovernorStatewide
- 5U.S. HouseYour representative in Congress
- 6U.S. SenateBoth represent all of Mississippi
Democrat · Republican · other or independent. Tap a name for their official page.
Reach Batesville’s government
Numbers and hours come from neighbors and the town’s own site (the Handbook). A new one goes live once two neighbors confirm it.
Questions about how Batesville is run?
Neighbors who’ve been to the meetings can help.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Budget and staff: U.S. Census Bureau, Census of Governments and Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances and the Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll. School district: Census school finance survey. Property tax: Census American Community Survey, 5-year estimates. Representatives: Open States, the Census and congress-legislators.