Ovett, Mississippi.
Typical home $163,339 (-0.0% in a year). Laurel, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$344 (+67%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $67 -0%
- $163,406$163,339 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $1,024 -1%
- $164,362$163,339 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.
- Ovett$857
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Ovett, MS fell 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ovett, Jones County, Mississippi
Ovett, in Jones County, had 183 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Jones County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jones 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ovett is a very small community in Jones County, Mississippi, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here are valued below what many would expect across the country, and household incomes across the county run below those in much of the nation. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with little or no snow and plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops and in the building trades. Across Jones County, some of the largest workplaces are Howard Industries, which makes electric distribution transformers, South Central Regional Medical Center, a general hospital, and the Jones County School District. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs than the year before.
Things to do. For a day out, the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art is one of the nearest well-known places, a museum a longer drive away. Tallahoma Creek is a river a longer drive away, for time by the water, and the Hattiesburg Zoo is also a longer drive away.
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What people in Jones County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jones County had 28,680 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 70°. About 60 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Laurel weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jones County
- Howard Industries Inc (Transformer)Distribution transformers, electric, manufacturing2,733
- South Central Regional Medical CentrGeneral hospital1,244FTE
- Jones CO School DistSchool district1,220FTE
- Amick Farms, LLC MS Processing PlantPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing1,103
- Southern HensPoultry manufacturing758
- Sanderson Farms Laurel ProcessingPoultry processing655
- Laurel School DistrictSchool district422FTE
- Jones County Junior CollegeTwo-year college417
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 47 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,545 people in all across the county; Ovett 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ovett’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 Jones County and the Laurel, MS metro.
Ovett home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ovett$163,339
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Ovett address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ovett — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.