Bolton, Mississippi.
Typical home $137,108 (+2.2% in a year). Jackson, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$266 (+58%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,964 +2%
- $134,144$137,108 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $14,352 -9%
- $151,460$137,108 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.
- Bolton$720
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Bolton, MS rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bolton, Hinds County, Mississippi
Bolton is a town of 441 people in Hinds County. Unemployment in Hinds County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hinds 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bolton is one of the smallest towns in Hinds County, and its residents are older than in most American communities. Home values here are modest, and a four-year degree is less common among adults than across the country as a whole. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Across Hinds County, unemployment has eased over the past year and the number of jobs has edged up slightly. Residents of Bolton work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services. Some of the largest workplaces across the county are University of Mississippi Medical, Jackson Public School District and MS Baptist Medical Center. The typical commute is a moderate one, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Kickapoo Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Jackson Zoo, the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and Vicksburg National Military Park, which preserves a Civil War battlefield.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 21 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Hinds County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hinds County had 109,465 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 71°. About 60 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oakley Experiment Station weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hinds County
- University of Mississippi MedicalGeneral hospital4,696FTE
- Jackson Public School DistrictSchool district3,185FTE
- MS Baptist Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,170FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,933
- Hinds Community CollegeTwo-year college1,501
- Mississippi National GuardNational guard1,500
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services1,229
- Jackson State UniversityUniversity or college1,223
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 149 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 23,679 people in all across the county; Bolton has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bolton’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 Hinds County and the Jackson, MS metro.
Bolton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bolton$137,108
- 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 Bolton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bolton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.