New Site, Mississippi.
Typical home $126,964 (+1.9% in a year). Tupelo, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$275 (+70%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $2,327 +2%
- $124,637$126,964 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $249 -0%
- $127,213$126,964 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 Site$666
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in New Site, MS rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in New Site, Prentiss County, Mississippi
New Site, in Prentiss County, had 122 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Prentiss County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Prentiss 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. New Site is a very small community in Prentiss County, in the hills of northeast Mississippi. Homes here are modestly priced, and household incomes across the county run below those in much of the country. Winters are mild and rarely snowy, summers are hot, and rain falls through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Among the largest workplaces across Prentiss County are Williams-Sonoma, Northeast Mississippi Community College and FXI. Jobs across the county slipped a little last year, and unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Bay Springs Lake, a reservoir, and Pharr Mounds, an archaeological site, are both a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Elvis Presley Birthplace museum and to the Natchez Trace Parkway, a protected area with a long scenic road and trails. Together they make for easy days out on the water, in the woods or among the region's history.
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What people in Prentiss County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Prentiss County had 7,156 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 1 inches of snow and 60 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Booneville weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Prentiss County
- Williams-SonomaHousehold-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing498
- Northeast Mississippi Community CollegeTwo-year college415
- FXIPolyurethane foam products manufacturing396
- ACCO Brands - BoonevilleGeneral warehousing and storage363
- Prentiss CO School DistSchool district357FTE
- Newway TrucksTruck bodies and cabs manufacturing350
- JBS Prepared Foods - BoonevilleLuncheon meat made from purchased carcasses341
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters244
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,771 people in all across the county; New Site has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in New Site’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 Prentiss County and the Tupelo, MS metro.
New Site home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- New Site$126,964
- 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 Site address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls New Site — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.