Cary, Mississippi.
Typical home $112,002 (+1.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$70 (+13%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $1,582 +1%
- $110,420$112,002 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.
- Cary$588
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Cary, MS rose 1.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cary, Sharkey County, Mississippi
Cary is a town of 241 people in Sharkey County. Unemployment in Sharkey County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sharkey County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cary is a very small town in Sharkey County, in the flat Mississippi Delta country. Homes here cost far less than the typical American home, and the pace of life is quiet. Winters are mild and the little snow that falls rarely stays, while summers run hot, with August the warmest month. Rain is plentiful through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, farming and transport also providing jobs. Across Sharkey County, the largest workplaces include the South Delta School District, Sharkey-Issaquena Community Hospital and Grundfest and Klaus Gin, a cotton ginning business. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The closest outdoor destination is Delta National Forest, a protected area a short drive away. Farther afield, Yazoo National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area for wildlife, and the USS Cairo is a museum, both a longer drive away. Together they suit a day out of walking, birdwatching or learning about the region's history.
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What people in Sharkey County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sharkey County had 933 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 72°. About 55 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rolling Fork weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sharkey County
- South Delta School DistrictSchool district114FTE
- Sharkey-issaquena Comm HospitalCritical access hospital65FTE
- Grundfest and Klaus GinCotton ginning25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 25 people in all across the county; Cary 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
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cary’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Sharkey County.
Cary home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cary$112,002
- 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 Cary address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cary — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.