Buckatunna, Mississippi.
Typical home $137,792 (+15.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$299 (+70%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $18,416 +15%
- $119,376$137,792 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $7,399 +6%
- $130,393$137,792 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.
- Buckatunna$723
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 63 years.
Typical home values in Buckatunna, MS rose 15.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Buckatunna, Wayne County, Mississippi
Buckatunna, in Wayne County, had 383 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Wayne County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wayne 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Buckatunna is a very small community in Wayne County, Mississippi, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and household incomes across the county sit well below what is typical nationally. Winters are mild, with only a trace of snow in most years, and summers are hot, with rain falling through much of the year.
Work. Residents of the area work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Across Wayne County, some of the largest workplaces are the Wayne County School District, Wayne General Hospital and Walmart. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, and the county has gained jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Buckatunna Creek, a river a short drive away, is the closest spot for time by the water. A longer drive brings you to Bladon Springs State Park and the Choctaw National Wildlife Refuge, both protected areas suited to a day outdoors.
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What people in Wayne County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wayne County had 4,865 jobs in 2025, 3.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 1 inches of snow and 60 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waynesboro West weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wayne County
- Wayne CO School DistSchool district497FTE
- Wayne General HospitalGeneral hospital305FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters262
- Sipcam Agro SolutionsPesticides manufacturing216
- Hood IndustriesSawmills181
- Pine View Health and Rehabiliation CenterSkilled nursing facilities91
- Kelley Oil CompanyPetroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers90
- Scotch Plywood Company Waynesboro DivisionVeneer mills, softwood79
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,096 people in all across the county; Buckatunna has none of its own. 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Buckatunna’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 Wayne County.
Buckatunna home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Buckatunna$137,792
- 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 Buckatunna address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Buckatunna — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.