Hamilton, Mississippi.
Typical home $191,558 (+1.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$506 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,565 +1%
- $188,994$191,558 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $13,622 +8%
- $177,937$191,558 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.
- Hamilton$1,005
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 47 years.
Typical home values in Hamilton, MS rose 1.4% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Hamilton, Monroe County, Mississippi
Hamilton, in Monroe County, had 404 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Monroe County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Monroe 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hamilton is a very small community in Monroe County, Mississippi, with far fewer people than most towns. Homes here are priced below what is typical for the country as a whole, and household incomes across Monroe County sit below the state's and the nation's typical levels. Few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Monroe County, the largest workplaces include Tronox Chemical Hamilton, the Monroe County school district and Monroe Health Services. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Aberdeen Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away. Farther out, Lake Lowndes State Park is a protected area, and Plymouth is an archaeological site that takes a longer drive to reach. Winters are mild and rarely snowy, summers are hot, and the year is wet.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
What people in Monroe County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Monroe County had 9,080 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 54 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Aberdeen weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Monroe County
- Tronox Chemical HamiltonPigments, inorganic, manufacturing420
- Monroe CO School DistSchool district336FTE
- Monroe Health ServicesGeneral hospital294FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters280
- True Temper SportsElectroplating metals and formed products for the trade271
- Amory School DistSchool district217FTE
- Aberdeen School DistSchool district191FTE
- Westlake Chemical Corporation Aberdeen FacilityPolyvinyl chloride resins manufacturing150
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,910 people in all across the county; Hamilton has none 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hamilton’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 Monroe County.
Hamilton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hamilton$191,558
- 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.
- Hamilton8
Zip codes with a Hamilton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hamilton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.