Isola, Mississippi.
Typical home $75,253 (-13.1% in a year). Indianola, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$137 (+53%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $11,362 -13%
- $86,615$75,253 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $8,916 -11%
- $84,170$75,253 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.
- Isola$395
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Isola, MS fell 13.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Isola, Humphreys County, Mississippi
Isola is a town of 638 people in Humphreys County. Unemployment in Humphreys County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 3.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Humphreys 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Isola is a very small town in Humphreys County, in the Mississippi Delta, with a population that places it among the smallest communities most people will ever look up. Homes here are modestly priced, and household incomes across Humphreys County sit well below those of the typical American household. Few adults have a four-year degree, and most residents are used to a short daily drive to work.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many people. Across Humphreys County, the largest workplace is the Humphreys County School District. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, and the county has more jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. A short drive from Isola you can reach the Bogue Phalia, a river, and the Jaketown Site, an archaeological site. Farther afield, the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center is a longer drive away, as is Holt Collier National Wildlife Refuge for those who like time outdoors. Winters are mild with little or no snow, summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
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- 321households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 22 mintypical commute
What people in Humphreys County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Humphreys County had 1,987 jobs in 2025, 3.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°. About 57 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Belzoni weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Humphreys County
- Humphreys CO School DistSchool district220FTE
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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Isola’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 Humphreys County and the Indianola, MS metro.
Isola home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Isola$75,253
- 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.
Zip codes with a Isola address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Isola — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.