Lexington, Mississippi.
Typical home $108,538 (-0.2% in a year). Jackson, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$231 (+68%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $195 -0%
- $108,733$108,538 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $21,741 -17%
- $130,279$108,538 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.
- Lexington$570
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Lexington, MS fell 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lexington, Holmes County, Mississippi
Lexington is a city of 1,602 people in Holmes County. Half its households earn more than $48,417 a year and half less, against $32,538 across Holmes County. Unemployment in Holmes County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Holmes 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lexington is a small city and the seat of Holmes County, Mississippi. Household incomes here run well above the county's, and homes are valued at a level that is modest by national standards.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport and warehousing also employing many. Across Holmes County, the largest workplaces include Holmes Community College, Holmes County Consolidated Schools and the Hunter Engineering Company plant in Durant. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Holmes County State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and Bophumpa Creek, a river, is also close by. A longer drive brings you to Hillside National Wildlife Refuge, another protected area. The summers are hot and the winters mild and cool, with plenty of rain through the year.
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- 25%of adults have a degree
- 0%work from home
What people in Holmes County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Holmes County had 2,959 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lexington weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Holmes County
- Holmes Community CollegeTwo-year college569
- Holmes County Consolidated SDSchool district441FTE
- Hunter Engineering Company Durant Manufacturing PlantFrame and body alignment equipment, motor vehicle, manufacturing226
- Lexington Manor Senior CareNursing homes127
- Durant HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities100
- University Hospital & Clinics - HolmCritical access hospital84FTE
- Graceland PropertiesBuildings, prefabricated, wood, manufacturing27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 480 people in all across the county; Lexington has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lexington’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 Holmes County and the Jackson, MS metro.
Lexington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lexington$108,538
- 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.
- Lexington7
Zip codes with a Lexington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lexington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.