Charleston, Mississippi.
Typical home $119,760 (+5.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$178 (+39%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $5,671 +5%
- $114,090$119,760 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $33,495 -22%
- $153,256$119,760 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.
- Charleston$629
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Charleston, MS rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Charleston, Tallahatchie County, Mississippi
Charleston is a city of 1,884 people in Tallahatchie County. Half its households earn more than $36,892 a year and half less, against $37,466 across Tallahatchie County. Unemployment in Tallahatchie County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Tallahatchie 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Charleston is a small city in Tallahatchie County, in the Mississippi Delta country. Household incomes in town run a little below the county's, and a typical home costs well under what many Americans pay elsewhere. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and farming and forestry also employing many. Across Tallahatchie County, the largest workplaces include Tallahatchie Critical Access Hospital and the East Tallahatchie Consolidated School District. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. The Coldwater River National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Enid Lake, a reservoir, and to the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, a protected area that tells part of the region's history.
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- 761households
- 22%of adults have a degree
What people in Tallahatchie County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tallahatchie County had 2,798 jobs in 2025, 2.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 57 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lambert 1W weather station, 19 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tallahatchie County
- Tallahatchie Critical Access HospitaCritical access hospital276FTE
- East Tallahatchie Consol SCH Dist SchoolsSchool district155FTE
- West Tallahatchie School DistrictSchool district114FTE
- Moss & AssociatesSolar power structure construction107
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 107 people in all across the county; Charleston has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Charleston’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 Tallahatchie County.
Charleston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Charleston$119,760
- 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.
- Charleston6
Zip codes with a Charleston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Charleston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.