Pelahatchie, Mississippi.
Typical home $215,049 (+2.9% in a year). Jackson, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$536 (+90%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,154 +3%
- $208,894$215,049 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,069 +15%
- $186,980$215,049 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.
- Pelahatchie$1,129
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Pelahatchie, MS rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pelahatchie, Rankin County, Mississippi
Pelahatchie is a town of 1,272 people in Rankin County. Half its households earn more than $56,322 a year and half less, against $79,357 across Rankin County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Rankin County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Rankin County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pelahatchie is a small town in Rankin County, Mississippi, with a population that places it among the smaller towns in the state. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than most people might expect in Rankin County as a whole. Homes cost less than in many parts of the country, and the weather brings mild, short winters with only the lightest dusting of snow, long hot summers, and a great deal of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in manufacturing. The commute is a moderate one, and few people work from home. Across Rankin County, the largest workplaces include the Rankin County School District, St. Dominic-Jackson Memorial Hospital and Ergon, and unemployment there is low and a little lower than a year earlier.
Things to do. Roosevelt State Park is the closest of the nearby outdoor places, a protected area a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Bienville National Forest, another protected area, and to the Ross Barnett Reservoir, a large body of water. Jackson Zoo and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum are also a longer drive away.
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- 15%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Rankin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rankin County had 67,431 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°. About 1 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jackson International Airport weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rankin County
- Rankin CO School DistSchool district2,656FTE
- St. Dominic-jackson Memorial HospGeneral hospital2,358FTE
- Irby Constuction CompanyConstruction management, power and communication transmission line1,628
- Total Trans ofGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload1,547
- ErgonCorporate offices591
- SiemensEnergyCircuit breakers, air, manufacturing590
- Pearl Public School DistrictSchool district551FTE
- SECPole line construction550
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 144 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 20,535 people in all across the county; Pelahatchie has one 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
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of PelahatchieRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pelahatchie’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Rankin County and the Jackson, MS metro.
Pelahatchie home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pelahatchie$215,049
- 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.
- Pelahatchie14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Pelahatchie address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pelahatchie — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.