Gloster, Mississippi.
Typical home $92,690 (-10.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$123 (+34%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,708 -10%
- $103,398$92,690 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $32,500 -26%
- $125,190$92,690 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.
- Gloster$487
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Gloster, MS fell 10.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gloster, Amite County, Mississippi
Gloster is a town of 897 people in Amite County. Unemployment in Amite County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Amite 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gloster is a small town in Amite County, Mississippi, with an older population than most of the country. Homes here cost far less than in much of the nation, and household incomes across the county sit below the state's typical level. Few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in professional and business services, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Amite County, the largest workplaces include the Amite County School District, EverGreen Industries and Wallace Lumber Company. Unemployment in the county has eased over the past year, and the county has gained jobs over the same stretch.
Things to do. The outdoors is the main draw, though each place is a longer drive away. Homochitto National Forest is a protected area of woods and trails, Percy Quin State Park is a protected area suited to a day out, and the Buffalo River is a river for a quiet afternoon. Winters are mild and summers are hot, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year, so plan around the season.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
What people in Amite County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Amite County had 2,088 jobs in 2025, 2.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 69°. About 62 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Liberty weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Amite County
- Amite County School DistrictSchool district194FTE
- EverGreen IndustriesOtr trucking95
- Wallace Lumber CompanyLumber merchant wholesalers80
- Air Cruisers / Dix Dr BuildingAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing66
- Air Cruisers Company / Vest PlantAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing51
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 292 people in all across the county; Gloster has none 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
- LightningRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gloster’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 Amite County.
Gloster home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gloster$92,690
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Gloster address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gloster — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.