Oakland, Mississippi.
Typical home $146,970 (+1.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$201 (+35%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,566 +2%
- $144,404$146,970 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $39,378 -21%
- $186,348$146,970 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.
- Oakland$771
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Oakland, MS rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oakland, Yalobusha County, Mississippi
Oakland is a town of 462 people in Yalobusha County. Unemployment in Yalobusha County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Yalobusha County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oakland is a very small town in Yalobusha County, Mississippi, where homes cost less than in much of the country and household incomes across the county are modest. Winters are mild and cold snaps are short, with snow a rare sight, while summers are hot and the year is a wet one.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, the building trades, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Yalobusha County, some of the largest workplaces are Ajinomoto Foods North America, Solero Technologies and the Water Valley School District. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and only a small group work from home.
Things to do. Enid Lake, a reservoir, and George P. Cossar State Park, a protected area, are both a short drive away, as is the Yocona River. Sardis Lake, another reservoir, is a longer drive away, and makes a good day out for anyone who likes time on the water.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 6%work from home
What people in Yalobusha County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Yalobusha County had 2,634 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 30°; warmest in August, with highs near 91° and lows near 68°. About 1 inches of snow and 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Water Valley weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Yalobusha County
- Ajinomoto Foods North AmericaFrozen specialty food manufacturing450
- Solero TechnologiesTransmissions and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing415
- Water Valley School DistrictSchool district162FTE
- Yalobusha General HospitalGeneral hospital142FTE
- Coffeeville School DistSchool district85FTE
- AjunomotoBuilding cleaning services, interior46
- Grays Power SupplySubstation and switching station, power transmission line, construction24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 935 people in all across the county; Oakland 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
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Oakland’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 Yalobusha County.
Oakland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oakland$146,970
- 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.
- Oakland5
Zip codes with a Oakland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oakland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.