Brooklyn, Mississippi.
Typical home $141,697 (+0.7% in a year). Hattiesburg, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$249 (+50%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $987 +1%
- $140,710$141,697 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $13,366 -9%
- $155,063$141,697 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.
- Brooklyn$744
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Brooklyn, MS rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brooklyn, Perry County, Mississippi
The Census does not count Brooklyn on its own, so the figures here are Perry County's. Half the county's households earn more than $49,634 a year and half less; 18% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 82% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Perry County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 5.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Perry County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brooklyn is a small town in Perry County, in the southern part of Mississippi. Across the county, residents are older on average than in many parts of the country, and more people live in poverty than the national typical. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are lower than the national typical.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in the building trades. Jobs across the county grew last year, and unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier. Fewer adults hold a college degree than across the country, very few people work from home, and commutes run a little longer than the typical American drive to work. Winters are cold, summers are hot, and the county gets far more rain than most of the country.
Things to do. For time outdoors, De Soto National Forest and Black Creek Wilderness are both a short drive away, the first a national forest and the second a protected wilderness area. For a day further afield, the Hattiesburg Zoo is a longer drive away.
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- 4,647households
- 43.4median age
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Perry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Perry County had 2,220 jobs in 2025, 5.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 67 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wiggins weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Perry County
- Leaf River Cellulose344
- Perry CO School DistSchool district186FTE
- Deep South MachineAutomotive electrical repair shops118
- Hood IndustriesPlywood, softwood, manufacturing100
- Richton School DistSchool district91FTE
- Burkes MechanicalPipe fitting contractors84
- Pathway ManagementNursing homes58
- Perry County General HospitalCritical access hospital38FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 726 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Perry County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Perry County and the Hattiesburg, MS metro.
Brooklyn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brooklyn$141,697
- 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 Brooklyn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brooklyn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.