Paulding, Mississippi.
Typical home $97,725 (-2.8% in a year). Laurel, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$33 (+7%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $2,795 -3%
- $100,520$97,725 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.
- Paulding$513
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Paulding, MS fell 2.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Paulding, Jasper County, Mississippi
The Census does not count Paulding on its own, so the figures here are Jasper County's. Half the county's households earn more than $48,660 a year and half less; 19% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 82% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Jasper County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jasper County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Paulding is a town in Jasper County, Mississippi, and the figures on this page are for the county as a whole, since the Census does not count the town on its own. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, peaking in July.
Work. Residents across Jasper County work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in retail shops. Unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier, and the number of jobs has edged upward in recent years. Household incomes are modest, a sizable share of residents live below the poverty line, and working from home is uncommon.
Things to do. Castaffa Creek, a river a short drive away, is the first place to consider for time outdoors. Clarkco State Park, a protected area a longer drive away, offers a quieter natural setting. The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, a museum a longer drive away, is a place to see art.
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- 6,647households
- 41.9median age
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Jasper County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jasper County had 3,926 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 69°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Quitman Nne weather station, 19 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jasper County
- Peco Foods Inc.- Bay Springs ProcessingPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing720
- Hol-MacLadles, fabricated metal plate work, manufacturing235
- West Jasper Consolidated SchoolsSchool district228FTE
- Hol-MacPneumatic cylinders, fluid power, manufacturing187
- Hol-MacSpecial purpose highway vehicle assembling on purchased chassis181
- East Jasper Consolidated SCH Dist SchoolsSchool district159FTE
- Interfor Bay SpringsDimension lumber, made from logs or bolts155
- Pilgrim Construction CoConstruction management, oil and gas pipeline90
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,815 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
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Jasper 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 Jasper County and the Laurel, MS metro.
Paulding home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Paulding$97,725
- 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 Paulding address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Paulding — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.