Crawford, Mississippi.
Typical home $139,765 (-3.8% in a year). Columbus, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$234 (+47%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,568 -4%
- $145,333$139,765 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $24,909 -15%
- $164,674$139,765 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.
- Crawford$734
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Crawford, MS fell 3.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Crawford, Lowndes County, Mississippi
Crawford is a town of 415 people in Lowndes County. Unemployment in Lowndes County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lowndes County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Crawford is a very small town in Lowndes County, Mississippi, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here are typical for the region and cost less than in much of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and short, summers are hot, snow is rare, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehousing and utilities. Across Lowndes County, some of the biggest workplaces are Baptist MEM Hospital Golden Triangle, Paccar Engine Company and Mississippi University for Women. Job numbers in the county have grown over the past year, and the typical commute is a bit longer than a short hop across town.
Things to do. The Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is a short drive away and suits a day of walking and watching birds. A longer drive brings you to Tombigbee National Forest, another protected area with room to roam. Also a longer drive away, Lake Lowndes State Park offers a state park setting for a day outdoors.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
What people in Lowndes County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lowndes County had 26,162 jobs in 2025, 2.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 57 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Macon 3N weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lowndes County
- Baptist MEM Hospital Golden TriangleGeneral hospital983FTE
- Lowndes CO School DistSchool district859FTE
- Columbus Municipal School DistSchool district546FTE
- Paccar Engine CompanyDiesel and semidiesel engines manufacturing533
- Mississippi University for WomenUniversity or college451
- Bracken Construction CompanyIndustrial building construction401
- International PaperDeinking plants367
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters364
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 56 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,662 people in all across the county; Crawford has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- DroughtRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Crawford’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 Lowndes County and the Columbus, MS metro.
Crawford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Crawford$139,765
- 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 Crawford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Crawford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.