Nesbit, Mississippi.
Typical home $358,923 (+2.1% in a year). Memphis, TN-MS-AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$925 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,469 +2%
- $351,454$358,923 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,286 +17%
- $307,636$358,923 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.
- Nesbit$1,884
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Nesbit, MS rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Nesbit, DeSoto County, Mississippi
The Census does not count Nesbit on its own, so the figures here are DeSoto County's. Half the county's households earn more than $85,297 a year and half less; 10% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 78% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in DeSoto County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in DeSoto County work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Nesbit is a town in DeSoto County, Mississippi, and the figures on this page are for the county as a whole, since the Census does not count the town on its own. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical resident is middle-aged. Household incomes are comfortable on the whole, and a minority of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and mostly dry, summers are hot, and snow is rare, though rain falls through much of the year.
Work. Across DeSoto County, many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in transport, warehousing and utilities. Manufacturing and retail also employ a good number of people, and few people work from home. Unemployment has eased over the past year, and the number of jobs has grown a little.
Things to do. Memphis Zoo is a zoo a longer drive away, and it is a popular outing for families. The Blues Hall of Fame, a museum a longer drive away, traces the music that grew out of the Mississippi Delta. Arkabutla Lake, a reservoir a longer drive away, offers a quieter place to spend a day outdoors.
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- 70,986households
- 37.3median age
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in DeSoto County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. DeSoto County had 73,213 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 30°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 2 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hernando weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in DeSoto County
- Desoto CO School DistSchool district4,483FTE
- Milwaukee ToolDrills, handheld power-driven, manufacturing2,278
- FedExCourier and express delivery services2,253
- Baptist MEM Hospital DesotoGeneral hospital1,457FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,225
- Hyve SolutionsComputer servers manufacturing1,043
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage956
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage771
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 180 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 30,802 people in all. 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across DeSoto County, 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 DeSoto County and the Memphis, TN-MS-AR metro.
Nesbit home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Nesbit$358,923
- Mississippi$194,531
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Nesbit listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Nesbit31.49%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Nesbit39
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Nesbit11
Zip codes with a Nesbit address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Nesbit — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.