Centreville, Mississippi.
Typical home $112,307 (-3.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$184 (+45%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Down $4,005 -3%
- $116,313$112,307 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $23,659 -17%
- $135,967$112,307 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.
- Centreville$589
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Centreville, MS fell 3.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Centreville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi
Centreville is a town of 1,258 people in Wilkinson County. Unemployment in Wilkinson County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wilkinson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Centreville is a small town in southwest Mississippi, in Wilkinson County. Household incomes across the county run below the national picture, and homes here are priced modestly. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and many residents face a long drive to work.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops and government close behind. Across Wilkinson County, the largest workplaces include the school district, Wilkinson Correctional Facility and Field Memorial Community Hospital. Unemployment across the county has eased over the past year, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. The countryside around Centreville offers a good deal of open ground, all a longer drive away. Homochitto National Forest is a large protected woodland, and the Buffalo River is a river to visit. Locust Grove State Historic Site is a protected historic place for those who like local history. Winters are mild with little or no snow, summers are hot, and rain is plentiful through the year.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 42 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Wilkinson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wilkinson County had 1,477 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 70°. About 67 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Woodville Ese weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wilkinson County
- Wilkinson CO School DistSchool district149FTE
- Management & Training CorporationJails, privately operated137
- Field Memorial Community HospitalCritical access hospital118FTE
- Wilkinson County Senior CareSkilled nursing facilities92
- VitalCore Health StrategiesHome nursing services, private practice43
- Southern Packaging Inc WoodvilleSawmills38
- UsalcoMethylamine manufacturing22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 332 people in all across the county; Centreville has one 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
- LightningVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Centreville’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 Wilkinson County.
Centreville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Centreville$112,307
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Centreville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Centreville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.