Booneville, Mississippi.
Typical home $138,182 (+3.9% in a year). Tupelo, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$301 (+71%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,156 +4%
- $133,025$138,182 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $2,091 +2%
- $136,090$138,182 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.
- Booneville$725
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Booneville, MS rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Booneville, Prentiss County, Mississippi
Booneville is a city of 9,126 people in Prentiss County. Half its households earn more than $50,879 a year and half less, against $49,724 across Prentiss County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Prentiss County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Booneville is a small city where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the people who live there are younger than in much of the country. Household incomes sit a little above the county's, and homes are priced modestly. A four-year degree is held by a minority of adults, and most people have a short trip to work.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in transport and warehousing. Among the largest workplaces in Booneville are Williams-Sonoma, which makes upholstered furniture, Northeast Mississippi Community College, and ACCO Brands, a warehousing operation. Jobs across Prentiss County have slipped slightly over the past year, while unemployment there is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Tarlechia Creek and the Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area are both a short drive away, for time by the water or out in protected countryside. A longer drive leads to the Elvis Presley Birthplace museum. Winters are cool with very little snow, summers are hot, and rain falls plentifully through the year.
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- 3,321households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Prentiss County had 7,156 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 1 inches of snow and 60 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Booneville weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Booneville
- Williams-SonomaHousehold-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing498
- Northeast Mississippi Community CollegeTwo-year college415
- ACCO Brands - BoonevilleGeneral warehousing and storage363
- Prentiss CO School DistSchool district357FTE
- Newway TrucksTruck bodies and cabs manufacturing350
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters244
- ProVia Booneville FacilityAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing232
- Marathon Cheese BoonevilleCheese manufacturing168
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,448 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Earthquakesrelatively high in parts of BoonevilleRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Booneville’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 Prentiss County and the Tupelo, MS metro.
Booneville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Booneville$138,182
- Mississippi$194,531
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Booneville listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Booneville20.45%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Booneville53
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Booneville15
Zip codes with a Booneville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Booneville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.