Lauderdale, Mississippi.
Typical home $144,893 (+0.6% in a year). Meridian, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$346 (+84%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $869 +1%
- $144,024$144,893 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $12,397 +9%
- $132,496$144,893 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.
- Lauderdale$761
- 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 Lauderdale, MS rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lauderdale, Lauderdale County, Mississippi
Lauderdale, in Lauderdale County, had 395 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Lauderdale County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lauderdale 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lauderdale is a very small community in Mississippi, the kind of place where people tend to know one another. Homes here are valued well below what is typical across much of the country, and incomes across Lauderdale County sit modestly. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and short, with cool days in January, while summers run hot and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Lauderdale County, the largest workplaces include Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Cente, Ochsner Rush Medical Center and the Lauderdale CO School Dist. 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. Close to home, Lost Horse Creek and Toomsuba Creek are rivers a short drive away, suited to a quiet afternoon by the water. Farther afield, Highland Park is a park a longer drive away, home to the Highland Park Dentzel Carousel and Shelter Building, a tourist attraction. The Meridian Museum of Art, also a longer drive away, offers a museum visit.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
What people in Lauderdale County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lauderdale County had 30,730 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 72°. About 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Meridian Naas weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lauderdale County
- Jeff Anderson Regional Medical CenteGeneral hospital1,188FTE
- Lauderdale CO School DistSchool district928FTE
- Meridian Public SchoolsSchool district801FTE
- Ochsner Rush Medical CenterGeneral hospital775FTE
- YTGLow voltage electrical work596
- V2XMaintenance and repair services, aircraft543
- Castle Energy GroupConstruction management, oil and gas pipeline429
- Meridian Community CollegeTwo-year college390
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 87 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,621 people in all across the county; Lauderdale has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lauderdale’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 Lauderdale County and the Meridian, MS metro.
Lauderdale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lauderdale$144,893
- 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.
- Lauderdale15
Zip codes with a Lauderdale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lauderdale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.