Banner, Mississippi.
Typical home $163,382 (+5.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$403 (+89%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $8,391 +5%
- $154,991$163,382 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,575 +12%
- $145,807$163,382 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.
- Banner$858
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 30 years.
Typical home values in Banner, MS rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Banner, Calhoun County, Mississippi
The Census does not count Banner on its own, so the figures here are Calhoun County's. Half the county's households earn more than $43,125 a year and half less; 20% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 72% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Calhoun County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Calhoun County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Banner is a small community in Calhoun County, in north Mississippi, where many families have lived for generations. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes and house values tend to run below the state and national norms. Winters are mild enough that snow is rare, summers are hot, and rain falls often through the year.
Work. Residents across Calhoun County work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and care services, in shops, and in farming, forestry and mining. Fewer people are out of work than a year earlier, though the number of jobs slipped a little last year. Few residents work from home, and fewer adults hold a university degree than across most of the country.
Things to do. The Vaught–Hemingway Stadium is a stadium a longer drive away, and the University of Mississippi Museum is a museum also a longer drive away. Bynum Mound and Village Site, an archaeological site, and Trace State Park, a protected area, are both a longer drive away as well.
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- 5,611households
- 42.0median age
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Calhoun County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Calhoun County had 2,868 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 30°; warmest in August, with highs near 91° and lows near 68°. About 1 inches of snow and 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Water Valley weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Calhoun County
- Calhoun CO School DistSchool district388FTE
- WeyerhaeuserLumber193
- Haworth BruceChairs, office-type, manufacturing190
- BMH - CalhounCritical access hospital145FTE
- Baptist- Calhoun Nursing HomeNursing homes125
- Topashaw FarmsSweet potato packing and processing50
- Spratlin Building SupplyHome centers, building materials23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 712 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Calhoun County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 Calhoun County.
Banner home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Banner$163,382
- 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.
Zip codes with a Banner address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Banner — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.