Clinton, Mississippi.
Typical home $237,691 (+1.7% in a year), asking rent $1,773 (+10.3%). Jackson, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$618 (+98%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,010 +2%
- $233,682$237,691 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,167 +20%
- $198,524$237,691 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.
- Clinton$1,248
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Clinton, MS rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Clinton, MS rose 10.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Clinton runs $97/mo less than renting one. The gap peaked at $211 in Apr 2024.
That is $1,676 a month against $1,773 rent: a $1,248 mortgage payment, plus $174 property tax and $254 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Clinton
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,676
- Renting$1,773
- Mortgage only$1,248
Property tax · $174/mo 0.88% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Hinds County, MS
Insurance & upkeep · $254/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Clinton, Hinds County, Mississippi
Clinton is a city of 28,100 people in Hinds County. Half its households earn more than $74,745 a year and half less, against $49,402 across Hinds County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Clinton was 2.7% in August 2026, and Hinds County had 0.3% more 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. Clinton is a city in Hinds County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run well above the county's. Residents tend to be of a middle age, and a four-year degree is common among adults. Winters are mild and short, while summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Mississippi College is the largest workplace in Clinton, and McNeely Plastics Products and Kroger Delta KMA are also among the biggest. Unemployment is a little lower than a year earlier, and a typical commute is of moderate length.
Things to do. For a day out, the Jackson Zoo and the Mississippi Museum of Art are both a short drive away. Kickapoo Lake, a reservoir, is also close by. For a longer drive, the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum tells an important part of the state's history.
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- 10,018households
- 48%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hinds County had 109,465 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 38°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 73°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jackson Hawkins Field weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clinton
- Mississippi CollegeUniversity or college755
- Enhanced Environmental and Emergency ServicesEnvironmental remediation services322
- McNeely Plastics ProductsFilm, plastics, packaging, manufacturing188
- Kroger Delta KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores182
- BirdsongExcavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors155
- Taylor Power SystemsGenerator sets, prime mover, manufacturing128
- Trend ConsultantsSkilled nursing facilities115
- Gulf States CannersBeverages, soft drink, manufacturing92
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,323 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24). 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
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Clinton’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 Hinds County and the Jackson, MS metro.
Clinton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clinton$237,691
- Mississippi$194,531
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Clinton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 25 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Clinton27.62%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Clinton25
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Clinton112
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Clinton27
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Clinton$249,067
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Clinton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clinton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.