Morton, Mississippi.
Typical home $82,639 (+0.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$176 (+68%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $452 +1%
- $82,187$82,639 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $7,735 -9%
- $90,374$82,639 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.
- Morton$434
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Morton, MS rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Morton, Scott County, Mississippi
Morton is a city of 3,711 people in Scott County. Half its households earn more than $41,863 a year and half less, against $48,786 across Scott County. Unemployment in Scott County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Scott County work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Morton is a small city in Scott County, Mississippi, where most of the people who live here are not far from one another and from the open country around town. Household incomes here run below the county's as a whole, and homes are modest in price. Few adults hold a four-year degree, which fits a place where much of the work is practical and hands-on.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. The largest workplaces in town include the Koch Foods processing plant, Scott County LTC, a nursing care provider, and Ochsner Scott Regional, the local hospital. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs over the past year. Very few people work from home.
Things to do. Roosevelt State Park, a protected area in or beside town, is the closest place for time outdoors. A short drive away are Bienville National Forest and Moore Lookout Tower, a tourist attraction. Winters are mild and brief, with the coldest weather in January, and summers are hot, which makes spring and autumn the easy seasons for getting outside.
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- 1,005households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 4%work from home
What people in Scott County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Scott County had 13,651 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 68°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Forest weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Morton
- Koch Foods- Morton Processing PlantPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing1,189
- Scott County LTCNursing homes132
- Ochsner Scott RegionalCritical access hospital69FTE
- Koch Foods - Morton Feed MillFish food for feeding fish manufacturing46
- Koch Foods - Morton HatcheryEgg hatcheries, poultry26
- Food Safety and Inspection ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,500 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Morton’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 Scott County.
Morton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Morton$82,639
- 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 Morton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Morton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.