Heidelberg, Mississippi.
Typical home $112,565 (-0.3% in a year). Laurel, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$195 (+49%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $320 -0%
- $112,885$112,565 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $18,204 -14%
- $130,769$112,565 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.
- Heidelberg$591
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Heidelberg, MS fell 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Heidelberg, Jasper County, Mississippi
Heidelberg is a town of 637 people in Jasper County. Half its households earn more than $49,896 a year and half less, against $48,660 across Jasper County. Unemployment in Jasper County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jasper 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Heidelberg is a very small town in Jasper County, Mississippi, where people tend to know one another. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and homes are modestly priced. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in shops. Across Jasper County, some of the largest workplaces are Peco Foods Inc.- Bay Springs Processing, Hol-Mac and West Jasper Consolidated Schools. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many towns, and the typical commute is a fairly moderate one.
Things to do. A short drive away are several creeks and rivers, including Tallahattah Creek, Bogue Ealiah and Castaffa Creek, which suit quiet time outdoors. For something indoors, the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 25 mintypical commute
What people in Jasper County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jasper County had 3,926 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 70°. About 60 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Laurel weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jasper County
- Peco Foods Inc.- Bay Springs ProcessingPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing720
- Hol-MacLadles, fabricated metal plate work, manufacturing235
- West Jasper Consolidated SchoolsSchool district228FTE
- Hol-MacPneumatic cylinders, fluid power, manufacturing187
- Hol-MacSpecial purpose highway vehicle assembling on purchased chassis181
- East Jasper Consolidated SCH Dist SchoolsSchool district159FTE
- Interfor Bay SpringsDimension lumber, made from logs or bolts155
- Pilgrim Construction CoConstruction management, oil and gas pipeline90
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,815 people in all across the county; Heidelberg 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Heidelberg’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 Jasper County and the Laurel, MS metro.
Heidelberg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Heidelberg$112,565
- 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.
- Heidelberg5
Zip codes with a Heidelberg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Heidelberg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.