Edwards, Mississippi.
Typical home $131,308 (-4.6% in a year). Jackson, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$267 (+63%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,268 -5%
- $137,576$131,308 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $8,634 -6%
- $139,942$131,308 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.
- Edwards$689
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Edwards, MS fell 4.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Edwards, Hinds County, Mississippi
Edwards is a town of 995 people in Hinds County. Unemployment in Hinds County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hinds 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Edwards is a very small town in Hinds County, with a population that has stayed modest in size. Homes here cost well below what is typical across much of the country, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in many places. Winters are mild and short, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with some in professional and business services. Across Hinds County, the largest workplaces include University of Mississippi Medical, Jackson Public School District and MS Baptist Medical Center. The commute is a fairly long one, and only a few people work from home.
Things to do. Big Black River Battlefield, an archaeological site, is a short drive away. Farther afield, Vicksburg National Military Park is another archaeological site, and the USS Cairo is a museum, both a longer drive away. The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum is also a longer drive from town.
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- 19%of adults have a degree
- 28 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Hinds County 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 59° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 71°. About 60 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oakley Experiment Station weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hinds County
- University of Mississippi MedicalGeneral hospital4,696FTE
- Jackson Public School DistrictSchool district3,185FTE
- MS Baptist Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,170FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,933
- Hinds Community CollegeTwo-year college1,501
- Mississippi National GuardNational guard1,500
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services1,229
- Jackson State UniversityUniversity or college1,223
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 149 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 23,679 people in all across the county; Edwards 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), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Edwards’ 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.
Edwards home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Edwards$131,308
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Edwards5
Zip codes with a Edwards address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Edwards — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.