Bassfield, Mississippi.
Typical home $107,624 (+11.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$223 (+65%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,891 +11%
- $96,734$107,624 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $8,735 -8%
- $116,359$107,624 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.
- Bassfield$565
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Bassfield, MS rose 11.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bassfield, Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi
Bassfield is a town of 192 people in Jefferson Davis County. Unemployment in Jefferson Davis County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 34.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jefferson Davis 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bassfield is a very small town in Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi, where people tend to know one another. Homes are modestly priced, and incomes across the county run below those in much of the country. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers are hot, and the town gets a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops, and transport and warehousing. Across Jefferson Davis County, the largest workplaces include the school district and Jefferson Davis General Hospital, along with Rudolph Foods Company New Hebron. Unemployment in the county has eased over the past year, and the number of jobs there has grown.
Things to do. A longer drive brings you to Collins Zoo and the Hattiesburg Zoo, both good for a family outing. For time on the water, Bouie River and Okatoma Creek are rivers a longer drive away. The All-American Rose Garden, a botanical garden, is also a longer drive from town.
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What people in Jefferson Davis County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson Davis County had 2,202 jobs in 2025, 34.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 70°. About 58 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Collins weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jefferson Davis County
- Jefferson Davis CO School DistSchool district238FTE
- Circle SWallpaper hanging and removal contractors79
- Rudolph Foods Company New Hebron71
- Jefferson Davis General HospitalCritical access hospital41FTE
- Janpc40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 190 people in all across the county; Bassfield has none of its own. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bassfield’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 Jefferson Davis County.
Bassfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bassfield$107,624
- 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.
- Bassfield6
Zip codes with a Bassfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bassfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Bassfield
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39421 | Bassfield | 2,550 | — | $112,037 |
| 39427 | Carson | 799 | — | $106,703 |