Pickens, Mississippi.
Typical home $117,203 (-0.8% in a year). Jackson, MS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$145 (+31%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Down $960 -1%
- $118,163$117,203 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $43,007 -27%
- $160,210$117,203 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.
- Pickens$615
- Mississippi$1,021
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Pickens, MS fell 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pickens, Madison County, Mississippi
Pickens is a town of 920 people in Madison County. Unemployment in Madison County was 2.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Madison County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pickens is a very small town, home to fewer people than most places that have their own post office and school. Homes here are priced well below what is typical across the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month and temperatures that stay above freezing by day, while summers turn hot, peaking in August.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, shops, and banks, insurance and property. Across Madison County, some of the largest workplaces are Nissan North America, Amazon and the Madison County school district. The commute is a long one, so many people spend a good stretch of the day traveling to a job outside town.
Things to do. Holmes County State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and is the nearest place for walking and time outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Hillside National Wildlife Refuge, another protected area, and to the Yockanookany River, one of several rivers and creeks in the surrounding countryside.
Report a mistake
- 419households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 32 mintypical commute
What people in Madison County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Madison County had 59,649 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pickens weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Madison County
- Nissan North AmericaAssembly plants, passenger car, on chassis of own manufacture3,187
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,848
- Madison CO School DistSchool district1,893FTE
- Peco Foods Inc.- Canton West Fulton Street ProcessingChickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked667
- V2XBusiness management services530
- Canton Public School DistSchool district437FTE
- B&B Electrical & Utility ContractorsUtility line, construction417
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters363
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 91 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 16,362 people in all across the county; Pickens has none of its own. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Strong windVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pickens’ 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 Madison County and the Jackson, MS metro.
Pickens home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pickens$117,203
- 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 Pickens address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pickens — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.