Why you'd want to live in Raymond

Raymond is a quaint, yet vibrant, and progressive small city that is focused on quality of life issues for everyone. We are a great place for young families, empty-nesters, and seniors. Our public and private schools offer great educational opportunities for our children, K-12. Hinds Community College, in addition to a two-year college program, offers many cultural, educational, and recreational opportunities to all ages. Ten churches within the city help keep us neighborly. Raymond not only tells its story through the town’s beautiful homes, bed and breakfast inns, historic churches, and other landmarks, but through its progress as well. Today, the town embraces Hinds Community College, Mississippi’s largest two-year college, as well as Eagle Ridge Conference Center with an 18 hole golf course. Riggs Manor Retirement Community offers a tranquil environment for a secure, comfortable lifestyle for seniors. The Hinds County Gazette, one of the state’s oldest weekly newspapers, was published locally from 1844-45 to very recent times when ownership passed to Dr. Lucius Lampton of Magnolia, MS. via A Place Called Raymond