Hickory, Mississippi.
Typical home $157,988 (-2.3% in a year). Laurel, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$311 (+60%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,701 -2%
- $161,689$157,988 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $21,470 -12%
- $179,458$157,988 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$829
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Hickory, MS fell 2.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hickory, Newton County, Mississippi
Hickory is a town of 408 people in Newton County. Unemployment in Newton County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Newton 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 is a very small town in Newton County, Mississippi, where the people are younger on the whole than in most of the country. Homes here cost less than the typical American house, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and brief, with January the coldest month, while summers are hot, with August the warmest, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and government also employing many. Across Newton County, the largest workplaces include East Central Community College, Weir Esco Newton, a foundry that makes cores and castings, and the Newton County School District. Household incomes in the county are modest, and very few people here work from home.
Things to do. Bogue Falema Creek runs in or beside town, and several other creeks, including Tarlow Creek and Tallashua Creek, are a short drive away. A longer drive leads to Bienville National Forest, a large protected area of woods. Those who want a park can go farther still to Highland Park, home to the Dentzel Carousel and its shelter building.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 2%work from home
What people in Newton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Newton County had 5,081 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 58 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newton Ene weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Newton County
- East Central Community CollegeTwo-year college357
- Weir Esco NewtonCores, sand foundry, manufacturing304
- Newton County School DistrictSchool district248FTE
- Biewer Sawmill NewtonBoards, wood, made from logs or bolts184
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters174
- Newton Municipal School DistrictSchool district146FTE
- Union Public School DistSchool district145FTE
- La-Z-BoyRecliners, upholstered, manufacturing122
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,161 people in all across the county; Hickory 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hickory’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Newton County and the Laurel, MS metro.
Hickory home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hickory$157,988
- 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.
- Hickory6
Zip codes with a Hickory address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hickory — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.