McLain, Mississippi.
Typical home $139,584 (+11.1% in a year). Hattiesburg, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$369 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,895 +11%
- $125,689$139,584 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $15,681 +13%
- $123,903$139,584 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.
- McLain$733
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in McLain, MS rose 11.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in McLain, Greene County, Mississippi
McLain is a town of 313 people in Greene County. Unemployment in Greene County was 5.9% in August 2026, and the county had 5.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Greene County work in construction, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. McLain is a very small town in Greene County, Mississippi, where people tend to know one another and life moves at a quiet pace. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and a smaller share of people live below the poverty line than you might expect for a rural place. Homes cost less than in much of the country. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot and wet, with a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in the building trades, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, and in shops. Across Greene County, some of the largest workplaces are the Greene County School District, Greene County Hospital and Houchens Food Group. Jobs across the county grew over the past year, though unemployment there is still higher than in many places, and it has come down from a year earlier.
Things to do. Water is the main draw close to town. The Pascagoula River, the Chickasawhay River and the Leaf River are each a short drive away, and so is the Leaf River Wildlife Management Area, a protected area where people go to be outdoors. For a longer drive, De Soto National Forest offers a much larger stretch of protected woodland to explore.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
What people in Greene County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Greene County had 1,987 jobs in 2025, 5.2% 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 August, with highs near 94° and lows near 70°. About 64 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Beaumont Expstation weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Greene County
- Greene County School DistrictSchool district280FTE
- VitalCore Health StratigiesHome nursing services, private practice100
- Greene County HospitalCritical access hospital49FTE
- WilliamsStorage of natural gas40
- Houchens Food GroupSupermarkets and other grocery stores26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 166 people in all across the county; McLain has none of its own. 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in McLain’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 Greene County and the Hattiesburg, MS metro.
McLain home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- McLain$139,584
- 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.
Zip codes with a McLain address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls McLain — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.