Benton, Mississippi.
Typical home $173,379 (+7.4% in a year). Jackson, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$421 (+86%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,919 +7%
- $161,460$173,379 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $22,561 +15%
- $150,818$173,379 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.
- Benton$910
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Benton, MS rose 7.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Benton, Yazoo County, Mississippi
Benton, in Yazoo County, had 415 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Yazoo County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Yazoo 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Benton is a very small community in Yazoo County, Mississippi, where people tend to know one another. Household incomes across the county run on the low side, and a typical home here costs well under what it would in much of the country. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Yazoo County, some of the largest workplaces are the federal prison system, the Yazoo City Municipal School District and Walmart. Commutes are long, and very few people work from home. Across Yazoo County, unemployment has eased compared with a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. The countryside around Benton suits people who like open land and water. Panther Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, and Holmes County State Park are both a longer drive away, as is Ross Barnett Reservoir, a large reservoir. For a look at the region's deep history, Pocahontas Mounds is an archaeological site, also a longer drive away.
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- 6%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Yazoo County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Yazoo County had 6,248 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 39°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 74°. About 60 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Yazoo City Nne weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Yazoo County
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice396
- Yazoo City Municipal School DistSchool district281FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters247
- Yazoo CO School DistSchool district224FTE
- Shackelford Construction & HaulingDirt moving for construction166
- ZFX - Nexion Health at Yazoo CityNursing homes152
- Baptist Medical Center - YazooCritical access hospital118FTE
- J&J BaggingPostharvest crop activities93
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 776 people in all across the county; Benton has none of its own. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), school districts 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
- LightningVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Benton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Yazoo County and the Jackson, MS metro.
Benton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Benton$173,379
- 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 Benton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Benton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.