Oak Vale, Mississippi.
Typical home $97,601 (+0.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$32 (+7%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $86 +0%
- $97,515$97,601 since Sep 2025
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.
- Oak Vale$512
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Oak Vale, MS rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oak Vale, Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi
The Census does not count Oak Vale on its own, so the figures here are Jefferson Davis County's. Half the county's households earn more than $38,548 a year and half less; 29% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 84% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Jefferson Davis County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 34.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jefferson Davis County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oak Vale is a small town in Jefferson Davis County, in southern Mississippi. Across the county, household incomes sit below the national level and more residents live below the poverty line than in most of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical home is valued well below what most Americans pay.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in factories, in shops, or in transport, warehousing and utilities. Joblessness has eased over the past year, and the county has added jobs at a brisk pace lately. Fewer adults hold a college degree than in most of the country, and most people drive to work rather than working from home.
Things to do. Collins Zoo is a zoo a longer drive away, and Lake Lincoln State Park is a protected area a longer drive away. Strong River, a river also a longer drive away, is another option for a day outdoors.
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- 4,453households
- 46.0median age
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 29%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Jefferson Davis County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson Davis County had 2,202 jobs in 2025, 34.4% 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 July, with highs near 96° and lows near 71°. About 60 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Monticello weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jefferson Davis County
- Jefferson Davis CO School DistSchool district238FTE
- Circle SWallpaper hanging and removal contractors79
- Rudolph Foods Company New Hebron71
- Jefferson Davis General HospitalCritical access hospital41FTE
- Janpc40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 190 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Jefferson Davis County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 Jefferson Davis County.
Oak Vale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oak Vale$97,601
- 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 Oak Vale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oak Vale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.