Ashland, Mississippi.
Typical home $135,255 (+4.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$266 (+60%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $5,961 +5%
- $129,294$135,255 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $3,789 -3%
- $139,044$135,255 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.
- Ashland$710
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Ashland, MS rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ashland, Benton County, Mississippi
Ashland is a town of 551 people in Benton County. Unemployment in Benton County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Benton County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ashland is a very small town, the kind where people are likely to know one another by name. Homes here are modestly priced, and household incomes across Benton County are on the lower side. Winters are cool and short, with snow only now and then, summers turn hot by August, and rain falls steadily through much of the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing and the building trades close behind. Across Benton County, the largest workplaces include the county school district, Vanguard Healthcare Services and TCI Automotive. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, very few work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Holly Springs National Forest, a protected area, and Lake Chautauqua, a reservoir, are both a short drive away, as is Chilli Creek, a small river. Wall Doxey State Park, another protected area, is a longer drive. Those who like history can head farther out to Davis' Mills Battle Site, an archaeological site.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 30 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Benton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Benton County had 1,065 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 29°; warmest in August, with highs near 89° and lows near 67°. About 2 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ashland weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Benton County
- Benton CO School DistSchool district175FTE
- Vanguard Healthcare ServicesNursing homes89
- TCI AutomotiveAutomotive parts, new, merchant wholesalers70
- #589 Food GiantSupermarkets and other grocery stores35
- Chairs AmericaChairs, upholstered household-type, manufacturing28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 222 people in all across the county; Ashland has one of its own. School districts come 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
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ashland’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 Benton County.
Ashland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ashland$135,255
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Ashland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ashland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.