Drew, Mississippi.
Typical home $71,392 (-9.2% in a year). Indianola, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $65 (-15%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Down $7,221 -9%
- $78,613$71,392 since Sep 2025
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.
- Drew$375
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Drew, MS fell 9.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Drew, Sunflower County, Mississippi
Drew is a city of 1,852 people in Sunflower County. Unemployment in Sunflower County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sunflower 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Drew is a small city in the Mississippi Delta, in Sunflower County. Its residents are a little younger than the typical American, and a good many households live on modest means, with incomes in the county below the state's and a larger share of people below the poverty line than in most places. Homes here cost far less than in most of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and almost never snowy, summers are hot, and a good deal of rain falls through the year.
Work. Many people in Drew work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, factories, restaurants and hotels. Across Sunflower County, some of the largest workplaces are the Sunflower CTY Cons School District, North Sunflower County Hospital and Mississippi Delta Community College. The county has lost some jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is a little lower than it was at this time last year. A typical drive to work is a moderate one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Delta around Drew is known for its music and its history, and several of the nearest attractions reflect that. The B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center and the Delta Blues Museum are both museums devoted to the region's music, and the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument is a protected site tied to a pivotal moment in civil rights history. All are a longer drive away. For time outdoors, the Yazoo River is also a longer drive away.
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- 828households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 35%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Sunflower County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sunflower County had 8,082 jobs in 2025, 1.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 54 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cleveland North weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sunflower County
- IndianolaGeneral warehousing and storage587
- Sunflower CTY Cons School DistrictSchool district547FTE
- North Sunflower County HospitalCritical access hospital378FTE
- Mississippi Delta Community CollegeTwo-year college284
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters218
- South Sunflower County HospitalGeneral hospital162FTE
- VitalCore Health StrategiesHome nursing services, private practice151
- Ruleville Community Care CenterNursing homes147
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,472 people in all across the county; Drew has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Drew’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 Sunflower County and the Indianola, MS metro.
Drew home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Drew$71,392
- 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 Drew address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Drew — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.