Flora, Mississippi.
Typical home $298,827 (+0.8% in a year). Jackson, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$767 (+96%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,268 +1%
- $296,559$298,827 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,339 +22%
- $244,488$298,827 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.
- Flora$1,568
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Flora, MS rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Flora, Madison County, Mississippi
Flora is a town of 1,647 people in Madison County. Half its households earn more than $36,513 a year and half less, against $83,441 across Madison County. Unemployment in Madison County was 2.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Madison County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Flora is a small town in Madison County, Mississippi, with a population that has stayed modest in size. Household incomes here run well below the county's, though a typical home is worth a good deal, so the town draws a mix of long-settled families and newer arrivals. Winters are mild and cool rather than harsh, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in banks, insurance and property. Across Madison County, some of the largest workplaces are Nissan North America, Amazon and the Madison County school district. Jobs across the county slipped a little last year, while unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier. The commute is a fairly long one, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Pocahontas Mounds, an archaeological site, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Ross Barnett Reservoir, good for time on the water, and to the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, a museum well worth setting aside an afternoon for. The Jackson Zoo is also a longer drive away and suits a day out with grandchildren.
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- 15%of adults have a degree
- 27 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Madison County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Madison County had 59,649 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 38°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 73°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jackson Hawkins Field weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Madison County
- Nissan North AmericaAssembly plants, passenger car, on chassis of own manufacture3,187
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,848
- Madison CO School DistSchool district1,893FTE
- Peco Foods Inc.- Canton West Fulton Street ProcessingChickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked667
- V2XBusiness management services530
- Canton Public School DistSchool district437FTE
- B&B Electrical & Utility ContractorsUtility line, construction417
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters363
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 91 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 16,362 people in all across the county; Flora has one of its own. School districts come 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 wavesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Flora’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Madison County and the Jackson, MS metro.
Flora home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Flora$298,827
- Mississippi$194,531
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Flora listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Flora22.03%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Flora20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Flora address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Flora — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.