Golden, Mississippi.
Typical home $158,300 (+6.2% in a year). Tupelo, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$399 (+92%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,292 +6%
- $149,009$158,300 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $9,099 +6%
- $149,202$158,300 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.
- Golden$831
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 59 years.
Typical home values in Golden, MS rose 6.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Golden, Itawamba County, Mississippi
Golden is a town of 192 people in Itawamba County. Half its households earn more than $47,050 a year and half less, against $55,546 across Itawamba County. Unemployment in Itawamba County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Itawamba County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Golden is a very small town in Itawamba County, Mississippi, where neighbors are likely to know one another by name. Household incomes here run below the county's, and the typical home is modestly priced. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month and nights that dip below freezing, while summers turn properly hot by July. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents mostly work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Itawamba County, some of the largest workplaces are Itawamba Community College, Mueller Copper Tube Company and the Itawamba County School District. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Tishomingo State Park, a protected area, and Bay Springs Lake, a reservoir, are both a short drive away and make easy outings for walking, picnicking or time by the water. A longer drive brings you to the Natchez Trace Trail, a trail that suits a full day out. Pharr Mounds, an archaeological site, is also a longer drive away for those who like to see something of the region's deep history.
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What people in Itawamba County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Itawamba County had 5,986 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 62 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Iuka weather station, 19 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Itawamba County
- Itawamba Community CollegeTwo-year college636
- Mueller Copper Tube CompanyCopper secondary smelting and alloying625
- Itawamba County School DistSchool district516FTE
- HomeStretchChair and couch springs, assembled, manufacturing456
- Baymont BathBathtubs, plastics, manufacturing255
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters198
- Daniel Health CareSkilled nursing facilities176
- F. L. Crane & Sons FultonDrywall contractors128
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,621 people in all across the county; Golden has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively 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 Golden’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 Itawamba County and the Tupelo, MS metro.
Golden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Golden$158,300
- 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.
- Golden7
Zip codes with a Golden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Golden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.