[3] As of the 2020 United States Census, there were 964 people, 424 households, and 278 families residing in the town.

The racial makeup of the town was 27.87% White, 71.26% African American, 0.43% Asian, and 0.43% from two or more races.

24.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

Students were formerly zoned to East Sunflower Elementary School, until it closed in 2022.

[6] Sunflower is also home to the Sunflower County Freedom Project, an independent, non-profit after-school program for middle- and high-school students, based on the Freedom Schools of the 1960s.