Macon, Mississippi.
Typical home $109,282 (-0.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$179 (+45%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $876 -1%
- $110,158$109,282 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $28,191 -21%
- $137,473$109,282 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.
- Macon$574
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Macon, MS fell 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Macon, Noxubee County, Mississippi
Macon is a city of 2,582 people in Noxubee County. Unemployment in Noxubee County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Macon is a small city and the seat of Noxubee County, and it is a young town for a rural one, with a median age well below that of many older communities. Homes here are among the more affordable you will find, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with cold nights but almost no snow, and summers turn hot by August, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and professional and business services also employing many. Across Noxubee County, the largest workplaces include Noxubee County Hospital, the Noxubee County School District and Superior Catfish. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area for wildlife and quiet time outdoors, and Tombigbee National Forest offers more woodland, each a longer drive away. Nanih Waiya is an archaeological site of deep historical importance, also a longer drive from town. Those who like the water can reach Aliceville Lake, a reservoir, though it too is a longer drive away.
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- 1,202households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Noxubee County had 2,195 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 57 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Macon 3N weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Noxubee County
- Noxubee County HospitalCritical access hospital209FTE
- Noxubee County School DistrictSchool district203FTE
- Superior CatfishFreezing fish150
- Shuqualak Lumber CompanyDimension stock, softwood, manufacturing74
- Shuqualak Lumber CompanyDimension stock, softwood, manufacturing46
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 270 people in all across the county; Macon has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- DroughtRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Macon’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 Noxubee County.
Macon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Macon$109,282
- 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.
- Macon4
Zip codes with a Macon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Macon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.