Bude, Mississippi.
Typical home $87,716 (-8.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $37 (-7%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $8,366 -9%
- $96,082$87,716 since Sep 2025
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.
- Bude$460
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Bude, MS fell 8.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bude, Franklin County, Mississippi
Bude is a town of 780 people in Franklin County. Unemployment in Franklin County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Franklin County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bude is a very small town in southwest Mississippi, in Franklin County. Residents are noticeably younger than in most of the country, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical. Homes here cost well below what is usual nationwide, and household incomes in the county run on the modest side.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in farming, forestry and mining, manufacturing, or transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Franklin County, the largest workplaces include the Franklin County School District, Franklin County Hospital and the Forest Service. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year ago, though the number of jobs there has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Homochitto National Forest, a protected area, and Okhissa Lake, a reservoir, are both a short drive away, and suit time outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Emerald Mound Site, an archaeological site, and to Natchez State Park. Winters are mild and cool rather than harsh, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
What people in Franklin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Franklin County had 1,539 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer 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 62 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Meadville weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Franklin County
- Franklin CO School DistSchool district201FTE
- Franklin County HospitalCritical access hospital177FTE
- AITX - BudeRailroad terminals, independent operation81
- Meadville Convalescent HomeSkilled nursing facilities59
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 140 people in all across the county; Bude has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively 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 Bude’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 Franklin County.
Bude home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bude$87,716
- 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 Bude address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bude — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.