Brandon, Mississippi.
Typical home $293,174 (+2.9% in a year), asking rent $1,787 (+2.5%). Jackson, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$774 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,161 +3%
- $285,012$293,174 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,802 +20%
- $243,372$293,174 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.
- Brandon$1,539
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Brandon, MS rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Brandon, MS rose 2.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Brandon runs $213/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $404 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,000 a month against $1,787 rent: a $1,539 mortgage payment, plus $147 property tax and $314 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Brandon
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,000
- Renting$1,787
- Mortgage only$1,539
Property tax · $147/mo 0.60% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Rankin County, MS
Insurance & upkeep · $314/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Brandon, Rankin County, Mississippi
Brandon is a city of 25,138 people in Rankin County. Half its households earn more than $92,783 a year and half less, against $79,357 across Rankin County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Brandon was 2.5% in August 2026, and Rankin County had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then finance and property.
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. Brandon is a city in Rankin County, Mississippi, where most homes are lived in by their owners and household incomes run above the county's. Residents are somewhat older than in many American towns, and a four-year degree is common among adults. Winters are mild and brief, with snow a rarity, while summers are hot and the year is a wet one.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with banks, insurance and property, government, and professional and business services also employing a good number. The Rankin County School District, Crossgates River Oaks Hospital and Brandon Nursing and Rehabilitaiton Center are among the largest workplaces in Brandon. Most people travel a fair way to their jobs, and few work from home.
Things to do. The Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame, a museum, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Ross Barnett Reservoir, a large body of water, and to the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. The Jackson Zoo is also a longer drive away.
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- 9,269households
- 41%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rankin County had 67,431 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°. About 1 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jackson International Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brandon
- Rankin CO School DistSchool district2,656FTE
- Brandon Nursing and Rehabilitaiton CenterHomes for the elderly with nursing care495
- Crossgates River Oaks HospitalGeneral hospital149FTE
- Rankin Community Care CenterNursing homes93
- Brown Vending CompanyAutomatic merchandising machine operators63
- BrandonMail and parcel delivery57
- Southern Pine ElectricDistribution of electric power45
- Thrash Commercial ContractorsAddition, alteration and renovation for-sale builders, commercial and institutional building45
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 859 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
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of BrandonRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brandon’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Rankin County and the Jackson, MS metro.
Brandon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brandon$293,174
- Mississippi$194,531
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Brandon listings, and the typical home goes pending in 24 days — 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.
- Brandon25.43%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Brandon24
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Brandon403
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Brandon112
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Brandon$290,178
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Brandon98.23%
Zip codes with a Brandon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brandon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Brandon
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39047 | Brandon | 40,808 | $1,885 | $298,244 |
| 39042 | Brandon | 39,142 | $1,665 | $291,964 |