Hickory Flat, Mississippi.
Typical home $160,945 (+2.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$336 (+66%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $3,237 +2%
- $157,708$160,945 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $1,920 +1%
- $159,024$160,945 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.
- Hickory Flat$845
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Hickory Flat, MS rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hickory Flat, Benton County, Mississippi
Hickory Flat is a town of 496 people in Benton County. Unemployment in Benton County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Benton 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hickory Flat is a very small town in Benton County, Mississippi, where people tend to know their neighbors. A typical home here is worth less than the national average, and household incomes across Benton County sit below what is common across the country. Winters are mild and short, with only a light dusting of snow in most years, while summers turn hot and the rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and other services close behind. Across Benton County, the largest workplaces include the school district, Vanguard Healthcare Services and TCI Automotive. Jobs across the county grew over the past year, and unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and most people drive some distance to get to work.
Things to do. Holly Springs National Forest, a protected area of woodland, is a short drive away, and Chilli Creek, a small river, is close by too. For a longer outing, Wall Doxey State Park is a protected area that takes a longer drive to reach. Graceland Too, a museum, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Benton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Benton County had 1,065 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 28°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 66°. About 3 inches of snow and 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hickory Flat weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Benton County
- Benton CO School DistSchool district175FTE
- Vanguard Healthcare ServicesNursing homes89
- TCI AutomotiveAutomotive parts, new, merchant wholesalers70
- #589 Food GiantSupermarkets and other grocery stores35
- Chairs AmericaChairs, upholstered household-type, manufacturing28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 222 people in all across the county; Hickory Flat 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Hickory Flat’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Benton County.
Hickory Flat home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hickory Flat$160,945
- 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.
- Hickory Flat5
Zip codes with a Hickory Flat address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hickory Flat — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.