Myrtle, Mississippi.
Typical home $202,414 (+7.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$506 (+91%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,012 +7%
- $188,402$202,414 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,555 +11%
- $182,859$202,414 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.
- Myrtle$1,062
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 34 years.
Typical home values in Myrtle, MS rose 7.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Myrtle, Union County, Mississippi
Myrtle is a town of 484 people in Union County. Unemployment in Union County was 2.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Union 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Myrtle is a very small town in Union County, Mississippi, with far fewer residents than most places that appear in public records. Incomes across the county run below the typical American household's, and a typical home here costs less than the national middle. Very few adults hold a four-year degree, and almost no one works from home.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in the building trades. Across Union County, the largest workplaces include Toyota Motor Mfg. Mississippi, the Union CO School Dist and Baptist MEM Hospital Union County. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Winters are cool, with a little snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year. Holly Springs National Forest is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Natchez Trace Parkway and Wall Doxey State Park are protected areas at a similar distance. For history, Brice's Cross Roads National Battlefield Site is also a longer drive away.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 1%work from home
What people in Union County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Union County had 12,108 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 28°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 66°. About 3 inches of snow and 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hickory Flat weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Union County
- Toyota Motor Mfg. MississippiVehicle assembly2,402
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage955
- Union CO School DistSchool district407FTE
- Baptist MEM Hospital Union CountyGeneral hospital381FTE
- New Albany Public SchoolsSchool district325FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters280
- Master Bilt ProductsCoolers, refrigeration, manufacturing240
- Diversity VuteqParts and accessories dealers, automotive220
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 27 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,040 people in all across the county; Myrtle 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Myrtle’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 Union County.
Myrtle home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Myrtle$202,414
- 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.
- Myrtle7
Zip codes with a Myrtle address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Myrtle — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.