Fayette, Mississippi.
Typical home $79,527 (-16.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$35 (+9%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $15,625 -16%
- $95,152$79,527 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $61,405 -44%
- $140,933$79,527 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.
- Fayette$417
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Fayette, MS fell 16.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fayette, Jefferson County, Mississippi
Fayette is a city of 1,445 people in Jefferson County. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 9.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jefferson County work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fayette is a small city and the seat of Jefferson County, Mississippi, with a population younger than much of the country. Incomes across the county run well below the county's neighbors and the national picture, and homes here are priced low compared with most of the country. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the daily drive to work is short.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by transport, warehouses and utilities, then shops, restaurants and hotels. Across Jefferson County, the largest workplaces include the school district, Southwest Electric Power and Jefferson County Hospital. Unemployment across the county is high but has eased compared with a year earlier, and the county has added jobs since the year before.
Things to do. Winters are mild and bring little or no snow, summers are hot, and a good deal of rain falls through the year. For a day out, Homochitto National Forest is a protected area a longer drive away, and Natchez State Park is another. Emerald Mound Site, an archaeological site, is also a longer drive away.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 16 mintypical commute
What people in Jefferson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 975 jobs in 2025, 2.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 60 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Natchez weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jefferson County
- Jefferson CO School DistSchool district194FTE
- Southwest Electric PowerDistribution of electric power91
- Jefferson County Nursing HomeSkilled nursing facilities65
- Jefferson County HospitalGeneral hospital53FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 156 people in all across the county; Fayette has one 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fayette’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 Jefferson County.
Fayette home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fayette$79,527
- 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 Fayette address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fayette — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.