New Augusta, Mississippi.
Typical home $149,349 (+20.0% in a year). Hattiesburg, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$332 (+74%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $24,898 +20%
- $124,451$149,349 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $3,032 +2%
- $146,316$149,349 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.
- New Augusta$784
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in New Augusta, MS rose 20.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in New Augusta, Perry County, Mississippi
New Augusta is a town of 554 people in Perry County. Half its households earn more than $26,620 a year and half less, against $49,634 across Perry County. Unemployment in Perry County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 5.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Perry 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. New Augusta is a very small town and the seat of Perry County in southern Mississippi. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and homes are modestly priced. Winters are mild and almost snowless, summers are hot, and the rainfall is heavy across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and the building trades also employing many. Across Perry County, the largest workplaces include Leaf River Cellulose, Hood Industries and the Perry County school district. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Old Augusta Historic Site, an archaeological site, and the Bogue Homo river are both in or beside town. Tallahala Creek is a short drive away. For a day out, De Soto National Forest, a protected area, is a longer drive away, as is the Pascagoula River.
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- 26 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Perry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Perry County had 2,220 jobs in 2025, 5.8% 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, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Perry County
- Leaf River Cellulose344
- Perry CO School DistSchool district186FTE
- Deep South MachineAutomotive electrical repair shops118
- Hood IndustriesPlywood, softwood, manufacturing100
- Richton School DistSchool district91FTE
- Burkes MechanicalPipe fitting contractors84
- Pathway ManagementNursing homes58
- Perry County General HospitalCritical access hospital38FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 726 people in all across the county; New Augusta has one 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in New Augusta’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 Perry County and the Hattiesburg, MS metro.
New Augusta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- New Augusta$149,349
- 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 New Augusta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls New Augusta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.