Abbeville, Mississippi.
Typical home $242,313 (-0.1% in a year). Oxford, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$513 (+67%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $171 -0%
- $242,484$242,313 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $300 -0%
- $242,612$242,313 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Abbeville$1,272
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Abbeville, MS fell 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Abbeville, Lafayette County, Mississippi
Abbeville is a town of 372 people in Lafayette County. Unemployment in Lafayette County was 2.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lafayette County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Abbeville is a very small town in Lafayette County in north Mississippi, with few residents. Homes here are typically valued well below what you would find in many parts of the country, and a share of residents live below the poverty line that is lower than one might expect for a small rural town. Winters are cool and mostly free of snow, summers are hot, and rain falls generously through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in professional and business services. Across Lafayette County, the largest workplaces include the University of Mississippi, Baptist MEM Hospital North Miss and the Oxford School District. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year ago, and the county has gained jobs over the past year. Commutes are of moderate length, and a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, the University of Mississippi Museum is a museum, and Vaught–Hemingway Stadium is a stadium. The Tippah River is also close by for time near the water. For a longer outing, Sardis Lake is a large reservoir, and Wall Doxey State Park is a protected area with room to walk and spend a day outdoors.
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- 26%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Lafayette County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lafayette County had 25,968 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 1 inches of snow and 61 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the University weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lafayette County
- University of MississippiUniversity or college12,939
- Baptist MEM Hospital North MissGeneral hospital974FTE
- Oxford School DistrictSchool district681FTE
- Lafayette CO School DistSchool district443FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters403
- Aramark UNIV. OF MISSISSIPPIFood service contractors345
- Sodexo Live!Food service contractors263
- Kroger Delta KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores207
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,817 people in all across the county; Abbeville has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Abbeville’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Lafayette County and the Oxford, MS metro.
Abbeville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Abbeville$242,313
- Mississippi$194,531
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Abbeville10
Zip codes with a Abbeville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Abbeville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.