Iuka, Mississippi.
Typical home $201,102 (-3.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$558 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,252 -4%
- $209,353$201,102 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,283 +16%
- $172,819$201,102 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.
- Iuka$1,056
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Iuka, MS fell 3.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Iuka, Tishomingo County, Mississippi
Iuka is a city of 3,139 people in Tishomingo County. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Tishomingo County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Tishomingo 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Iuka is a small city and the seat of Tishomingo County, in the northeastern corner of Mississippi. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might find in larger cities. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month, summers are hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades and in shops. Among the biggest workplaces in Iuka are the Tishomingo County school district, Tishomingo Health Services and Walmart. Unemployment across Tishomingo County is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added jobs, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Apron Museum is an easy museum visit close to home. A short drive away are J. P. Coleman State Park, a protected area on the water, and Buzzard Roost Creek. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Tishomingo State Park, and Shiloh National Military Park, a Civil War battlefield and archaeological site.
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- 1,371households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 23 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Tishomingo County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tishomingo County had 6,317 jobs in 2025, 3.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 62 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Iuka weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Iuka
- Tishomingo CO SP MUN SCH Dist SchoolsSchool district478FTE
- Tishomingo ManorSkilled nursing facilities150
- Tishomingo Health ServicesGeneral hospital115FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores94
- Piggly Wiggly #59/AceGrocery stores42
- Ripley Industries - IukaPresses, metal baling, manufacturing29
- Baymont Composites SouthSeptic tanks, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing24
- IukaMail and parcel delivery22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 552 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively 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 Iuka’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 Tishomingo County.
Iuka home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Iuka$201,102
- Mississippi$194,531
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Iuka listings — the market is cooling.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Iuka20.78%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Iuka135
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Iuka19
Zip codes with a Iuka address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Iuka — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.