Goodman, Mississippi.
Typical home $84,577 (-5.5% in a year). Jackson, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$119 (+37%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Down $4,940 -6%
- $89,516$84,577 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $28,616 -25%
- $113,192$84,577 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.
- Goodman$444
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Goodman, MS fell 5.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Goodman, Holmes County, Mississippi
Goodman is a town of 1,258 people in Holmes County. 16% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 84% are rented. Unemployment in Holmes County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Holmes 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Goodman is a small Mississippi town in Holmes County, and its people are very young; the median age is well below what you would find in most American towns. Most homes here are rented rather than lived in by their owners, and typical home values are low. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and transport and warehousing also employing local people. Across Holmes County, some of the largest workplaces are Holmes Community College, Holmes County Consolidated Schools and University Hospital & Clinics - Holm. Household incomes in the county are low, and unemployment there has eased from a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Holmes County State Park is a protected area a short drive away and the nearest place to get outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Hillside National Wildlife Refuge, and to Bolatusha Creek, one of several creeks and rivers in the area. Winters are mild and cool, while summers are hot, so the cooler months suit time outdoors best.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
- 4%work from home
What people in Holmes County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Holmes County had 2,959 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pickens weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Holmes County
- Holmes Community CollegeTwo-year college569
- Holmes County Consolidated SDSchool district441FTE
- Hunter Engineering Company Durant Manufacturing PlantFrame and body alignment equipment, motor vehicle, manufacturing226
- Lexington Manor Senior CareNursing homes127
- Durant HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities100
- University Hospital & Clinics - HolmCritical access hospital84FTE
- Graceland PropertiesBuildings, prefabricated, wood, manufacturing27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 480 people in all across the county; Goodman has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Strong windVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Goodman’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 Holmes County and the Jackson, MS metro.
Goodman home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Goodman$84,577
- 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 Goodman address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Goodman — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.