Houston, Mississippi.
Typical home $145,252 (-2.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$344 (+82%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,293 -2%
- $148,545$145,252 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $12,395 +9%
- $132,857$145,252 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.
- Houston$762
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 39 years.
Typical home values in Houston, MS fell 2.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Houston, Chickasaw County, Mississippi
Houston is a city of 3,797 people in Chickasaw County. Half its households earn more than $44,023 a year and half less, against $43,586 across Chickasaw County. 55% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 45% are rented. Unemployment in Chickasaw County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 3.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Chickasaw 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Houston is a small city in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, where more homes are lived in by their owners than rented. Household incomes are about the same as across the county, and typical home values are modest. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers run hot, and the year is a wet one.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in transport, warehouses and utilities. Franklin, which makes upholstered household furniture, the Chickasaw County school district and International Paper's Houston container plant are among the largest workplaces in town. Commutes are short, and few people work from home. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Bynum Mound and Village Site, an archaeological site, is a short drive away. Trace State Park, a protected area, and Aberdeen Lake, a reservoir, are both a longer drive away, as is the Big Black River for time on the water.
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- 1,472households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 17 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Chickasaw County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chickasaw County had 4,330 jobs in 2025, 3.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 32°; warmest in August, with highs near 91° and lows near 69°. About 1 inches of snow and 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Houston weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Houston
- FranklinUpholstered household furniture manufacturing587
- Chickasaw CO School DistSchool district341FTE
- International Paper Houston ContainerBoxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard100
- WalmartDiscount department stores96
- Leggett and PlattCushions, carpet and rug, urethane and other foam plastics, manufacturing88
- Trend Health and Rehab of HoustonNursing homes80
- Natchez Trace EPADistribution of electric power77
- Kalmbach FeedsAnimal feeds, prepared, manufacturing68
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,181 people in all. 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Houston’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 Chickasaw County.
Houston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Houston$145,252
- 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.
- Houston13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Houston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Houston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.