Jayess, Mississippi.
Typical home $149,322 (+4.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$301 (+62%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,026 +4%
- $143,295$149,322 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $12,057 -7%
- $161,378$149,322 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.
- Jayess$784
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Jayess, MS rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jayess, Lawrence County, Mississippi
The Census does not count Jayess on its own, so the figures here are Lawrence County's. Half the county's households earn more than $43,531 a year and half less; 24% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 84% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Lawrence County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lawrence County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jayess is a small town in Lawrence County, in southern Mississippi. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and few residents rent. Home values are modest, and household incomes sit below the national norm, with a larger share of people living in poverty than across the country.
Work. Across Lawrence County, many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in professional and business services. Joblessness has eased over the past year, and jobs have edged up slightly. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and few people work from home, so most commutes are to a workplace, and they tend to be longer than the typical American commute.
Things to do. The Minnehaha River, a river a longer drive away, is the best known of the nearby waterways. Percy Quin State Park, a protected area also a longer drive away, offers a quieter place to spend a day outdoors. Bahala Creek, another river a longer drive away, is a further option for those who enjoy water.
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- 4,407households
- 41.0median age
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 24%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Lawrence County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lawrence County had 2,712 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 96° and lows near 71°. About 60 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Monticello weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lawrence County
- Monticello, MS Paper548
- Lawrence CO School DistSchool district307FTE
- Hood IndustriesSawmills145
- Lawrence County HospitalCritical access hospital98FTE
- Lawrence County Nursing CenterSkilled nursing facilities77
- Atlas-SSI, Inc. - MonticelloBuckets, excavating, manufacturing72
- Southern Pine ElectricDistribution of electric power34
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 876 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Lawrence County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Lawrence County.
Jayess home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jayess$149,322
- 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.
- Jayess12
Zip codes with a Jayess address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jayess — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Jayess
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39641 | Jayess | 6,769 | — | $153,022 |
| 39654 | Monticello | 4,604 | — | $116,343 |