Itta Bena, Mississippi.
Typical home $55,388 (-7.7% in a year). Greenwood, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $98 (-25%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $4,598 -8%
- $59,986$55,388 since Sep 2025
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.
- Itta Bena$291
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Itta Bena, MS fell 7.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Itta Bena, Leflore County, Mississippi
Itta Bena is a city of 1,679 people in Leflore County. Half its households earn more than $36,033 a year and half less, against $35,277 across Leflore County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 31% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 69% are rented. Unemployment in Leflore County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 3.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Leflore County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Itta Bena is a small city in Leflore County, in the Mississippi Delta, where most homes are rented rather than lived in by their owners. Incomes are a little above the county's, and homes cost less than in much of the country. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and short, with little or no snow, while summers turn hot and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Leflore County, the largest workplaces include Mississippi Valley State University, Milwaukee Tool and Greenwood Leflore Hospital. The county has lost some jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is a little lower than a year ago. Most people travel a moderate distance to work, and almost nobody works from home.
Things to do. Rice–Totten Field and Magnolia Field, both stadiums in or beside town, are close by. A short drive away are Florewood State Park, a protected area, and the Yazoo River. A longer drive brings you to the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center, a museum devoted to the blues musician and the Delta.
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- 780households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What people in Leflore County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Leflore County had 12,090 jobs in 2025, 3.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 91° and lows near 73°. About 56 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Moorhead weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Leflore County
- Mississippi Valley State UniversityUniversity or college485
- Milwaukee ToolHandtools, power-driven, manufacturing452
- Greenwood Leflore HospitalGeneral hospital373FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters284
- Milwaukee ToolHandtools, power-driven, manufacturing223
- Viking Range, LLC - Cooking ProductsGas ranges, household-type, manufacturing189
- Upchurch Plumbing (Greenwood)Plumbing contractors166
- RC Construction CoPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction127
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,547 people in all across the county; Itta Bena has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Itta Bena’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 Leflore County and the Greenwood, MS metro.
Itta Bena home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Itta Bena$55,388
- Mississippi$194,531
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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 Itta Bena address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Itta Bena — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.