Okolona, Mississippi.
Typical home $127,327 (-0.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$316 (+90%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,124 -1%
- $128,451$127,327 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $12,909 +11%
- $114,418$127,327 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.
- Okolona$668
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 32 years.
Typical home values in Okolona, MS fell 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Okolona, Chickasaw County, Mississippi
Okolona is a city of 2,513 people in Chickasaw County. 43% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 57% are rented. Unemployment in Chickasaw County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 3.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Chickasaw 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Okolona is a small city in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, where fewer homes are lived in by their owners than across most of the state's small towns, and where a four-year degree is held by only a small part of the adult population. Typical home values are modest, and household incomes across the county sit on the low side. Winters are mild and almost snow-free, summers are hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. The largest workplaces in Okolona include Chickasaw Container, which makes cardboard boxes, the Okolona Separate School District, and Shearer Richardson Memorial Nursing Home. Across the county, jobs fell last year and unemployment has eased since a year earlier, and a typical commute is a fairly short drive, with very few people working from home.
Things to do. Tallabinnela Creek is a river a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Elvis Presley Birthplace, a museum in the town where the singer was born, and to the Natchez Trace Parkway, a long protected route through the countryside. Tupelo National Battlefield, an archaeological site, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 1,124households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 23 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Chickasaw County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chickasaw County had 4,330 jobs in 2025, 3.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°. About 59 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Verona Experiment Station weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Okolona
- Chickasaw ContainerCorrugated and solid fiber boxes made from purchased paper or paperboard107
- Okolona Separate School DistSchool district96FTE
- Shearer Richardson Memorial Nursing HomeHomes for the aged with nursing care94
- #593 Food GiantSupermarkets and other grocery stores45
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 246 people in all. School districts come 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Okolona’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 Chickasaw County.
Okolona home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Okolona$127,327
- 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.
- Okolona10
Zip codes with a Okolona address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Okolona — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.