Farmington, Mississippi.
Typical home $183,950 (+8.2% in a year). Corinth, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$502 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,010 +8%
- $169,940$183,950 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,041 +20%
- $153,909$183,950 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.
- Farmington$966
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Farmington, MS rose 8.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Farmington, Alcorn County, Mississippi
Farmington is a town of 2,055 people in Alcorn County. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Alcorn County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Alcorn 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Farmington is a small town in Alcorn County, Mississippi, where most homes are lived in by their owners and typical home values sit at a modest level. Incomes run a little below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many parts of the country. The usual trip to work is a short one, and very few people work from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels close behind. Across Alcorn County, some of the largest workplaces are Mississippi Reman, Magnolia Hospital and the Alcorn School District. Joblessness across the county has eased over the past year, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Corinth Depot, a museum, and the Siege and Battle of Corinth Sites, an archaeological site, are both a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Pickwick Lake, a reservoir, and to Shiloh National Military Park, which preserves a Civil War battlefield. Winters are cool and rarely snowy, summers are hot, and the year is a wet one.
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- 824households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Alcorn County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Alcorn County had 13,324 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 1 inches of snow and 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Corinth Southwest weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Alcorn County
- Mississippi RemanDiesel and semidiesel engines manufacturing1,066
- Magnolia HospitalGeneral hospital775FTE
- Alcorn School DistSchool district478FTE
- KeytronicPrinted circuit boards loading354
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters346
- Corinth School DistSchool district331FTE
- Statewide Healthcare ServicesHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical255
- Kimberly Clark GNWCarpet paddings, nonwoven, manufacturing254
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 29 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,324 people in all across the county; Farmington has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Farmington’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 Alcorn County and the Corinth, MS metro.
Farmington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Farmington$183,950
- 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.
- Farmington6
Zip codes with a Farmington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Farmington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.