Ethel, Mississippi.
Typical home $101,665 (-0.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$216 (+68%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Down $256 -0%
- $101,921$101,665 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $2,918 -3%
- $104,582$101,665 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.
- Ethel$534
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Ethel, MS fell 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ethel, Attala County, Mississippi
Ethel is a town of 348 people in Attala County. Unemployment in Attala County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Attala 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ethel is a very small town in Attala County, Mississippi, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here are modest in price, and few adults have a four-year degree. Winters are mild and brief, with snow rare, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Across Attala County, the biggest workplaces include the Kosciusko School District, Baptist Medical Center - Attala and Walmart. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Tombigbee National Forest is a protected area a longer drive away. Choctaw Lake, a reservoir, and the Noxubee River are also a longer drive away, and both suit a day by the water.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
What people in Attala County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Attala County had 4,585 jobs in 2025, 1.7% 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 July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 1 inches of snow and 63 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kosciusko weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Attala County
- Ivey Mechanical CompanyPlumbing and heating contractors1,050
- Kosciusko School DistrictSchool district309FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters237
- Attala CO School DistSchool district190FTE
- Baptist Medical Center - AttalaCritical access hospital119FTE
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services49
- RP Construction ServicesWarehouse, commercial and institutional, construction33
- Dickerson Transportation Group484220 specialized freight trucking, local32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,477 people in all across the county; Ethel has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ethel’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Attala County.
Ethel home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ethel$101,665
- 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 Ethel address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ethel — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.