Osyka, Mississippi.
Typical home $129,053 (+16.9% in a year). McComb, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$305 (+82%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,672 +17%
- $110,380$129,053 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $10,645 +9%
- $118,408$129,053 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.
- Osyka$677
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 40 years.
Typical home values in Osyka, MS rose 16.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Osyka, Pike County, Mississippi
Osyka is a town of 381 people in Pike County. Unemployment in Pike County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pike 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Osyka is a very small town in Pike County, Mississippi, where most people know one another by name. Homes here are modestly priced, and household incomes across Pike County sit below what is typical for the country. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and restaurants and hotels close behind. Across Pike County, the largest workplaces include Sanderson Farms McComb Processing, Southwest MS Regional MED Center and the McComb School District. Unemployment across the county has eased over the past year, and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. Bala Chitto Creek runs in or beside town, and the Minnehaha River is a short drive away. Percy Quin State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away, and so is Global Wildlife Center, a zoo. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, summers are hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 3%work from home
What people in Pike County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pike County had 14,657 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 38°; warmest in August, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°. About 61 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mccomb/pike Co/john East Lewis Airport weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pike County
- Sanderson Farms McComb ProcessingPoultry processing1,706
- Southwest MS Regional MED CenterGeneral hospital825FTE
- Mccomb School DistrictSchool district406FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters371
- North Pike School DistSchool district320FTE
- South Pike School DistSchool district261FTE
- Southwest Mississippi Community CollegeTwo-year college241
- WeyerhaeuserLumber188
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,741 people in all across the county; Osyka has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Osyka’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 Pike County and the McComb, MS metro.
Osyka home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Osyka$129,053
- 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.
- Osyka6
Zip codes with a Osyka address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Osyka — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.