Dumas, Mississippi.
Typical home $154,593 (+6.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$342 (+73%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $9,029 +6%
- $145,563$154,593 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $3,710 +2%
- $150,883$154,593 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.
- Dumas$811
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Dumas, MS rose 6.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dumas, Tippah County, Mississippi
Dumas is a town of 471 people in Tippah County. Half its households earn more than $56,500 a year and half less, against $52,542 across Tippah County. Unemployment in Tippah County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Tippah 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dumas is a very small town in Tippah County, Mississippi, where people tend to know their neighbors. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and homes are modestly priced. Winters are cool and seldom bring snow, while summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport and warehousing also common. Across Tippah County, the largest workplaces include Ashley Furniture Industries in Ripley, the South Tippah School District and Big M Transportation. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and many people face a fairly long drive to work. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Wingo Branch runs in or beside town, and the Hatchie River and Lake Mohawk are both a short drive away for time on the water. Also a short drive away is the Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area, a protected area covering the region's history and landscape. Farther afield, a longer drive reaches the Elvis Presley Birthplace museum.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 35 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Tippah County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tippah County had 7,209 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 2 inches of snow and 58 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ripley weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tippah County
- Ashley Furniture Industries - RipleyUpholstered furniture, household-type, custom, manufacturing750
- South Tippah School DistSchool district404FTE
- Big M TransportationGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload365
- AlumaFormRod made by extruding purchased aluminum258
- EcoWater Systems LLC - RipleyWater softening equipment manufacturing200
- North Tippah School DistSchool district185FTE
- Blue Mountain Christian UniversityUniversity or college149
- WalmartDiscount department stores131
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,468 people in all across the county; Dumas has none of its own. School districts come 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dumas’ 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 Tippah County.
Dumas home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dumas$154,593
- 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 Dumas address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dumas — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.