Marion, Mississippi.
Typical home $169,607 (-0.5% in a year). Meridian, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$363 (+69%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $844 -0%
- $170,450$169,607 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $10,092 +6%
- $159,514$169,607 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.
- Marion$890
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 56 years.
Typical home values in Marion, MS fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marion, Lauderdale County, Mississippi
Marion is a town of 1,751 people in Lauderdale County. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marion is a small town in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, and the number of people who live there is modest. Homes here are valued at less than the typical home across much of the country, and incomes across the county sit below the national middle. Winters are mild and short, with very little snow, while summers run hot and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents of Marion work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops and manufacturing, with restaurants, hotels and entertainment also providing jobs. Very few work from home. Across Lauderdale County, some of the largest workplaces are Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center, Ochsner Rush Medical Center and Meridian Public Schools. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the county has seen a slight dip in the number of jobs.
Things to do. A short drive away, Highland Park holds the Highland Park Dentzel Carousel and Shelter Building, a tourist attraction that sits within the park itself. The Riley Center, a theatre, is also a short drive away. For an afternoon indoors, the Meridian Museum of Art is a museum a short drive from town.
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- 2%work from home
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 59° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 72°. About 1 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Meridian Key Field weather station, 8 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; Marion 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
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Marion’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 Lauderdale County and the Meridian, MS metro.
Marion home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marion$169,607
- 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.
- Marion5
Zip codes with a Marion address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marion — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.