Cleveland, Mississippi.
Typical home $138,635 (-3.7% in a year). Cleveland, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$169 (+30%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,389 -4%
- $144,024$138,635 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $27,107 -16%
- $165,742$138,635 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.
- Cleveland$728
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Cleveland, MS fell 3.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cleveland, Bolivar County, Mississippi
Cleveland is a city of 11,199 people in Bolivar County. Half its households earn more than $44,074 a year and half less, against $39,585 across Bolivar County; 29% of its people live below the poverty line. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Bolivar County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cleveland is a small city in the Mississippi Delta, in Bolivar County, with a population on the younger side and incomes a little above the county's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a four-year degree is held by a fair share of adults. Winters are mild and cool, and summers are hot. Snow is rare, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants and hotels, or in the building trades. Delta State University and Bolivar Medical Center are among the largest workplaces in town, along with Baxter Healthcare, a manufacturer. Commutes are short, and almost no one works from home.
Things to do. The Grammy Museum Mississippi is a museum in or beside town, and McCool Stadium, a stadium, is close by as well. A longer drive away is the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center, another museum, and the Dahomey National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area. The Winterville Site, an archaeological site, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 4,283households
- 35%of adults have a degree
- 29%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bolivar County had 10,505 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 72°. About 2 inches of snow and 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cleveland weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cleveland
- Delta State UniversityUniversity or college629
- Baxter HealthcareBottles, plastics, manufacturing510
- Bolivar Medical CenterGeneral hospital333FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters288
- Kroger Delta KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores77
- Robinson Electric CompanyElectrical contractors70
- Vowell's Marketplace #15 ClevelandGrocery stores58
- CLEVELANdMail and parcel delivery26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,518 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of ClevelandRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cleveland’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 Bolivar County and the Cleveland, MS metro.
Cleveland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cleveland$138,635
- Mississippi$194,531
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Cleveland listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Cleveland22.98%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Cleveland57
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Cleveland13
Zip codes with a Cleveland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cleveland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.